Indiana safety Louis Moore was granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA in connection with his pursuit to play for the Hoosiers in 2025.
For now, he’s eligible.
But this is not the final step in Moore’s battle against the NCAA.
According to Dallas County court records, the case now proceeds to an Aug. 27 hearing. The purpose of the hearing will be to determine whether this temporary restraining order should be made a temporary injunction pending full trial on the merits.
A temporary injunction would likely clear Moore to play for the full 2025 season.
Moore was at risk of being deemed ineligible by the NCAA on Aug. 25 when the fall semester commences in Bloomington.
“This Court further finds that there is evidence that Moore will be harmed irreparably if he is not able to join the Team for practice on August 25, 2025, because Indiana will not be able to guarantee Moore’s place on the Team’s roster for the 2025-2026 season and therefore deprive Moore of the opportunity to play Division college football,” the presiding judge wrote in the decision.
The parties have been ordered to mediation in the days leading up to the next hearing.
Moore is suing the NCAA for another year of eligibility.
According to court records, Moore first enrolled in college (Navarro Junior College) in 2019, and he was redshirted that season.
Moore’s 2020 fall season at Navarro was canceled and moved to the spring of 2021. He played in two games that spring, a season that does not count against eligibility because of the COVID-19 blanket waiver.
Moore’s 2019 redshirt year plus his fall 2021 season at Navarro, 2022 and 2023 seasons at Indiana, and 2024 season at Ole Miss represent his four seasons to compete within a five-year window, Moore contends.
But at issue as whether Moore should get an extra year of eligibility after the NCAA granted institutions a blanket waiver in the wake of a case related to Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia. The Pavia waiver has the effect of junior college seasons (in this case Moore’s 2021 season) not counting against eligibility.
Moore and the NCAA are at odds regarding whether the Pavia waiver applies to his fact pattern. He requested a waiver to play in 2025, and it was denied, leading to the legal contest.
