Weskonsen Corner Lizer Forero Fifting a lawsuit against NCAA on Wednesday, claiming that the five -year eligibility watch should not be running during his second -class season in the second division Grand Valley.
Fourquean also states in the lawsuit that NCAA deprives him of the opportunity to benefit from his name, image and likeness by not giving him additional eligibility with Al -Badger.
NCAA rejected his request to obtain an additional concession on Wednesday, his lawyer told the court about the complaint submitted in the American boycott court in Madison and Wisconsin.
In the lawsuit, Fourquurean lawyers asked the court to grant a temporary restriction and a preliminary judicial order that would prevent NCAA from enforcing its regulations related to its five -year ruling for eligibility, and the limits of eligibility for three years of transportation, and to judge four years is the first season in Grand Valley State a lost opportunity under NCAA bases due to his father’s death in 2021.
Fourquean’s lawyers asked the judge for the restraint relief from the court because, until February 7, the US Football Association’s draft will be announced. Fourquean participated in Hula Bowl, the All-Star game that displays the potential US Football Association draft choices, earlier this month.
The complaint claims that NCAA violated the Sherman Anti -monopoly and other federal laws.
“The aforementioned procedures, for example, but not limited to, include university athletes, such as the prosecutor who joined the schools of the second section of the competition in the third and fourth year of football in the first section due to the pre -attendant at the second division school and the lawsuit said:
Fourquean, one of the top teachers, Ohio, fell with Grand Valley State outside high school. The 2020 season was canceled at the Second Department School in Michigan due to the restrictions of Covid-19.
Fourequure’s father died during the summer of 2021, causing weeks of training for outside the season, according to the complaint.
“The combination of the setback in training/summer air conditioning, The Death affected the plaintiff mentally as he prepared for his first season of football at the level of team and the first important return to football since his higher year in his high school in 2019,” the complaint said.
The lawsuit said that Fourquure played in 155 shots on 11 games in Grand Valley State in the 2021 season. He had four objections in 13 games in 2022 and was appointed in the second section by Associated Press before moving to Wisconsin in May 2023.
Fourquean started five games with Badges in 2023 and all 12 games last season, with a total of 51 treatment with one objection.
On December 23, the NCAA Division I board approved a waiver of the blanket that gives an additional year of eligibility to transfer the previous young college, and opened the door to a wave of university athletes in all sports for another year in university athletics.
This waiver did not apply to athletes, such as Fourquure, who moved from the second section and third section programs.
According to the NCAA Memorandum, the waiver extends to an additional year of eligibility in 2025-26 for athletes who had previously “competed in a non-NCAA school for a year or more”, otherwise it could be exhausted by NCAA after the 2024-25 season.
The NCAA decision came in December five days after a federal judge in Tennessee was granted a judicial warrant Vanderllet Qurtbbeck Diego PaviaWho filed a lawsuit against NCAA regarding the criteria of eligibility, on the pretext that the organization’s ruling in the university’s beginner years account against the player against his comprehensive eligibility violates the anti -monopoly laws by restricting the ability of athletes to benefit from their name, image and similar.
NCAA resumed the ruling of the federal judge in the Pavia case.
Elie Ledman from ESPN contributed to this report.
