While the case is only at an injunction level and not a decision on the merits, it effectively states that playing JUCO sports does not count for purposes of playing NCAA D1 sports. In other words, if you play two years of JUCO, you can still play 4 years of D1 sports, for a total of 6 years of eligibility.

If this turns out to be the final decision, it will become even harder for high school kids to go straight into D1 sports. Now, the impact for football won't be so great because there are so few JUCO football programs now, but for other sports like baseball and softball as well as a bit with basketball and volleyball, it will have much bigger impacts.

Example of how this can play out: My son went on mission out of high school, then played two years of JUCO baseball and is now playing his second year of D1 baseball. If the Pavia case becomes law, then my 23 year old son would be eligible to play two more years of D1 baseball, assuming that he enrolled in a graduate program, which would take him to age 25. Do D1 programs want 18 year old HS kids or 23/24 year old men who are already in elite shape and already proved themselves at a high level?

Crazy how college athletics are developing.