Senior Reporter for USA Today Mitchell Northam discusses a federal court decisions that hands the NCAA a major loss on the five-year eligibility rule

A federal court dealt a perhaps chaos-inducing blow to the NCAA’s new eligibility rule on Friday, when it ruled that all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility this spring are eligible for a fifth season this school year. Mitchell Northam, Senior Reporter for USA Today, joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss the change.

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