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Posted on 02/10/2026 7:19:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
Montana linebacker Solomon Tuliaupupu will return for the 2026 season after being granted a ninth year of eligibility by the NCAA.
The school announced Tuliaupupu's return on social media Monday alongside sixth-year offensive lineman Dylan Jemtegaard.
Tuliaupupu is entering his second season at Montana after starting his collegiate career at USC in 2018. He was sidelined for his entire undergraduate campaign at USC after two surgery-requiring injuries impacting his foot (2018) and knee (2020).
The linebacker's first season at Montana -- and eighth overall -- was just his second full season played and third with game action.
He saw the field for the first time as a redshirt senior in 2022, appearing in all 14 games for the Trojans and recording 10 tackles, including three for a loss, and one quarterback hurry.
Tuliaupupu was sidelined by another injury in 2023 and missed the whole season. He wrapped up his USC career in 2024, playing in seven games for the Trojans before his season was cut short because of illness. He transferred to Montana in 2025.
Tuliaupupu will play under new Montana coach Bobby Kennedy. Kennedy is succeeding Bobby Hauck, who was named defensive coordinator at Illinois on Monday after a brief retirement.
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The courts decided players will be paid.
But it's getting ridiculous now. Every time the NCAA tries to set a rule about eligibility, a local court stands in their way. So they have no power to have any kind of rules and regulations.
Their only option now may be to just allow this to get more and more ridiculous, until Congress intervenes. I am loathe to get Congress involved, but there may be no choice. Allowing courts in 50 states to make up rules as they go along means only Congress can stop it. Does anyone else have another solution.
Nine years of eligibility? It won't stop there.
LOL! yes, that’s my comment.
“Does anyone else have another solution?”
Follow Division II and III instead - no professionals there.
What comment?
It will. NFL players will play college football. . What’s stopping them from enrolling and NIL money?
“Nine years of eligibility? It won’t stop there”
It need not stop
So which college will be inviting Colin Kapernick to tryouts?
I trust that by now he’s polishing his doctoral dissertation for final submittal.
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