Stay Out For Three Years After High School Or Play In Canada - And For Good Reason: An Antitrust Look at <i>Clarett v. National Football League</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In conjunction with its stated eligibility rules, found in the league's Constitution & Bylaws, the NFL has an application for players who have not completed their college eligibility and are seeking "special eligibility" for the NFL Draft.The petition for .specialeligibility" states: "Applications [for special eligibility] will be accepted only for college players for whom at least three full college seasons have elapsed since their high school graduation."(hereinafter "three-year rule").NFL Eligibility Rules and Petition for Special Eligibility and Renunciation of College Eligibility (1991), reprinted in Leigh Steinberg, Representing the Professional Football Player, in 1 LAW OF PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR SPORTS 6-1, app.6D (Gary A. Uberstine ed., 2002).It is the three-year rule that is the subject of this Note.The official rule of the NFL's Constitution & Bylaws states: No person shall be eligible to play or be selected as a player unless (1) all college football eligibility of such player has expired; or (2) at least five (5) years shall have elapsed since the player first entered or attended a recognized junior college, college, or university; or (3) such player receives a diploma from a recognized college or university prior to September 1st of the next football season of the League.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".