CBS Sports reports the floodgates could be opening in college sports after Judge Charlotte Sweeney of the U.S. District Court of Colorado granted a class-wide preliminary injunction on Friday requiring the NCAA to declare athletes from the high school class of 2022. That means athletes who exhausted four seasons of eligibility this spring -- and thought their college career ended -- would be eligible for the upcoming season.
The TRO order would open the transfer portal starting on Aug. 3, with it closing one week later. The injunction comes on the heels of the new five-for-five eligibility model set to rock college athletics this academic year, which would give athletes across all sports five years to play five seasons.
The NCAA's new 5-for-5 eligibility model grants student-athletes five full seasons of competition to be completed within five years from the start of their college enrollment or after turning 19, whichever comes first.
The NCAA is expected to appeal.
