He has three main contracts — one revenue-sharing agreement with the institution, an adidas deal and an outside contract with a multi-media rights company. The NCAA and its member schools’ insistence on not considering athletes as employees with no collective bargaining agreement and no rules to govern the appeals processes leaves them wide open to this sort of injunctive action.
A judge ruling that he is eligible to play doesn’t mean that the team can’t kick him off the roster, does it?
Texas Tech has to decide whether they are going to give up all their credibility (and the possibility of being scheduled to play any other team) in order to keep this guy on their roster.