NCAA has no plans to surrender, as eligibility lawsuits for 2022 class turn into an all-out legal war

During one of the most chaotic periods college athletics has seen when it comes to athlete eligibility, the NCAA made one thing clear Tuesday night: It has no plans to stop fighting the wave of lawsuits coming its way.

Right now, in courtrooms across the country, athletes who were part of the 2022 class are suing the NCAA over what they feel is a misguided and illegal decision that is preventing them from participating this academic year.

When the NCAA adopted its new age-based eligibility model, giving athletes five years to play five seasons, it made one critical decision that is currently being argued on a daily basis: it excluded the 2022 recruiting class from the new rule.

Maybe the organization believes that refusing to make the rule retroactive is genuinely the right thing to do.

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Or maybe NCAA officials understand they have little choice, given the potential fallout that could come with granting a blanket waiver and opening thousands of additional roster spots that don’t actually exist.

Either way, the NCAA isn’t waving the white flag.

And now, we wait on an appeals court in Colorado to deliver what will ultimately be a monumental decision.