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Every morning, Jason Brown hosts a free-wheeling, sometimes profanity-laced streaming presentation on X called “The Coach JB Show with Big Smitty.” Let’s just say the former junior college coach has viewpoints. He also has a website selling merch to those loyal to his side hustle, Slapdick Whiskey and Cigars.
Yeah, it’s a free country. It’s also one that is about to change radically — football-wise — if you talk to Brown, known mostly because of his featured role on the Netflix documentary “Last Chance U.”
The show, which ran from 2016-2020, offered an inside look at junior college football. Brown became sort of an overnight sensation when his Independence (Kan.) Community College team was featured for two seasons.
Brown hasn’t worked as a coach since his last year at Independence in 2018 — he told CBS Sports he has been blackballed — but he keeps track of his old profession. The college football world, not just JUCO ball, is in (further) upheaval since Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia sued the NCAA in November. The everyman inspiration for the Commodores contended the association violated anti-trust law by counting time served in junior college towards NCAA eligibility limits. Athletes are allowed five total years to play four years of competition.
Pavia won an injunction in December, giving him another year of eligibility in 2025. The NCAA Council almost immediately reacted by allowing such players an extra year through the 2024-2025 academic year; the NCAA is appealing the original Pavia suit.
Alarms immediately sounded at NCAA headquarters and football offices around the country. With the NCAA backpedaling on similar issues as the power conferences and their attorneys take over, what if the NCAA eventually allowed time…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2025-02-28 17:16:00
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