Former IU football safety Louis Moore’s college career is over. He will be at the NFL Draft Combine next week. But somehow, his eligibility case involving the NCAA is ongoing.
Last summer Moore filed suit against the NCAA after the organization deemed he had exhausted his college eligibility. He got a temporary injunction in the courtroom, which allowed him to play the entire 2025 national championship season for Indiana.
Since he no longer required court protection to play college football, last month Moore dismissed his own lawsuit against the NCAA.
The NCAA filed an appeal related to the temporary injunction, something Moore also filed a motion to have dismissed.
The NCAA is pushing back on that.
Ostensibly now concerned primarily precedence, the NCAA still wants the court of appeals to rule on the validity of the temporary injunction that allowed Moore to play in 2025.
But in its arguments to continue with the appeals process, the NCAA is suggesting it now has the power to punish IU for allowing Moore to play in 2025.
“Now that Appellee (Moore) has voluntarily dismissed the trial court action, the Temporary Injunction is no longer in effect. The dissolution of the Temporary Injunction means that the NCAA Division I membership, through the member representatives on the NCAA Committee on Infractions, is now free to enforce, if they so choose, the “Rule of Restitution” against Indiana University for rostering an ineligible participant.”
The context is important.
The NCAA is not threatening enforcement actions against IU, at least not publicly. Instead, they are suggesting the appeal should proceed because the very same arguments in favor of Moore’s eligibility would be made by Indiana in the event the NCAA does pursue enforcement actions.
Perhaps the Rule of Restitution is simply the best example the NCAA could come up with as to why the appeal should proceed. Or perhaps they are making a threat?
Curiously, in its court arguments the NCAA also describes the potential enforcement actions it believes are now available to it against Indiana, including “individual records and performances achieved by Appellant during the recent season be vacated or stricken; that team victories achieved during Appellant’s participation last season be abrogated, including the national championship; that any of Appellee’s awards earned during last season be returned; or that the institution is assessed a financial penalty.”
None of this seems to present any real cause for concern for Indiana at this point.
Moore received the temporary injunction because the court believed he would win his case during a full trial. So the facts are on his side if the appeal proceeds.
Moreover, the NCAA does not operate the College Football Playoff, so it has no real ability to threaten Indiana’s claim to a national championship.
So what is all of this in reality?
Mostly just a dying, largely irrelevant organization drowning in its own sea of incompetence. And its feckless leaders are fiddling in the courts while the integrity of the college sports they claim to represent burns.
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