Trinidad, James, has demonstrated based on the evidence presented, that he is entitled to an additional year of

those of both at the University of Mississippi and the NCAA has failed in this argument to withhold that right.

And on that note, our chief legal correspondent, analyst, John Cox, is back.

John, you're a trooper, man.

You've been in three different locations at this point, and you're back in a suit now, which is incredible.

Well, you know, nothing but the best for you guys.

We're celebrating, aren't we?

This is an old mess podcast.

What an incredible eight, nine plus hours it's been.

John, the final verdict, obviously, the judge took his time on that one.

Everybody seems to think that was to make the

appeal process harder for the NCAA and to set precedent verbally for future cases. Can you just

kind of explain why it took Judge Whitwell so long to read the final verdict?

Well, I mean, the first quite obvious reason it took him so long is that it was so long an opinion.

I mean, if I had to read,

I mean, I'd love to know, I mean, I'll download it tonight and see how many pages it is. Did he say, I don't know if he said it, but if however many pages, just think how long it takes you to read that many pages. Oh, absolutely. But I mean, yeah, I mean, he did that. I mean, you cover your back. you cross your t's, you dot your eyes. You make it as,

as ironclad as you can because I would assume they're going to appeal. I mean, I don't know

why they wouldn't consider them. Didn't they deny? They denied, they denied it's, the NCAA

denied it's claimed today. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they've denied three different attempts now.

Sorry, I've been on a podcast.

But yeah, I mean, you would assume they're going to appeal.

So you want to make that to where, as we explained last week, your appeal from Judge Whitwell.

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