Maybe it's time for the NCAA to get a reality check over their litigious obsession with Trinidad Chambliss's injunction.
The organization has hardly ever been this aggressive in approving an additional year of eligibility, as they went as far as denying his waiver twice in January and February, and then losing a ruling that their lawyers didn't even bother to hear out.
Panicking is one thing, but still going after the QB when Mississippi State judge Robert Whitwell already ruled in Chambliss's favor and granted him an injunction is getting downright embarrassing.
NCAA appeals Trinidad Chambliss's injunction
At this point, the NCAA is just dragging it on longer than it needs to be, as they decided to reopen the Chambliss injunction drama by appealing Chambliss's preliminary injunction.
The dramatic part is them filing the appeal in a 658-page document in the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday.
The filing claims that the NCAA has "final decision-making authority in the interpretation and application of its eligibility rules" and that they should receive an interlocutory appeal — an appeal of a non-final order— because the injunction subjects the NCAA to "substantial and irreparable injury."
The NCAA not accepting their loss and challenging Chambliss's case was not wholly unexpected. But given how easily Chambliss's legal team knocked the NCAA's camp down in the court just makes the whole ordeal more laughable.
And it's not just wasting 658 pages on a case they could have made a month ago; it's them filing an appeal after a whole month of being humiliated in court and getting a show-cause penalty for it.
If anything, Alston case's Supreme Court precedent should calm the looming dread about the NCAA pulling a fast on Chambliss among the Ole Miss fans.