Hey legal guys, please weigh in on Darian Mensah

[GopherGrit]

If the NCAA were in a better spot strength-wise, I could see a simple rule: if a school induces an athlete to breach a signed contract with another school, the tampering school's wins are disregarded (no CFP or post-season bowl permitted) for the number of seasons of the subject contract, and tampering team's roster cap is reduced to 80 players during that period--Mensah's contract, I think, was for two years. I would also add that any player agent actively involved in inducing the breach of a signed contract is barred from representing NCAA student-athletes, in any sport, for the same time period. Contract interference problem solved.

Personally, just on the breaking the contract front -- I think the much better answer is to punish the player.

Sure, go right ahead, break your contract. And then you're ineligible next season.


If the school, conference, player ignore that ... then you revoke their wins and any championships from the NCAA record book. In basketball and most every other sport, you can also refuse to give them a berth to the NCAA championship.

That doesn't work in football though, as the CFP is an independent organization.