Talk of Champions was LIVE for over nine hours on Thursday as Trinidad Chambliss had his (successful!) court date with the NCAA.
Cleveland, Mississippi-based lawyer John Cox contributed to Talk of Champions for nearly the entirety — including joining Sudu Upadhyay shortly after the ruling came down.
“You would assume [the NCAA] is going to appeal,” Cox said, in the included 22-minute explainer. “Eventually it’s going to go up to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The standard is manifest error — whether or not it’s a complete misapplication of the law. That’s why it was important to win this one.
“Judge [Robert] Whitwell was very good during the hearing of explaining that the facts of this case are different than the facts of every other case. The Alabama case, that was apples to pizza.
“As far as the long-term, if you’re willing to fight the NCAA in a court of law, you’ve got a very good shot right now. Their rules are not set up to win in court the way they’re applying them right now.”
