NCAA hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore after latest eligibility ruling

College football fans collectively lost their minds two weeks ago when the NCAA did not grant Oklahoma linebacker Owen Heinecke another year of eligibility because of about 15 minutes of action in three lacrosse games at Ohio State in 2021. OU appealed the decision as Heinecke also has the argument for a medical redshirt in 2022 after missing that entire season.

The NCAA's decision then was so outrageous that even Texas and Oklahoma State fans took the side of Sooner Nation, but as Heinecke awaits a new verdict from the appeal, the NCAA's ruling just continues to get more laughable after another contradicting decision.

Montana announced on Monday that linebacker Solomon Tuliaupupu will return in 2026 for his NINTH season of college football at 25 years old while Heinecke didn't get a fourth season to actually play college football and fifth year overall.

Tuliaupupu started his college career at USC in 2018. That same year at USC, quarterback Sam Darnold was drafted by the New York Jets and has since played for five different NFL teams and redeemed his career as a Super Bowl champion, all while Tuliaupupu is still in college. Tuliaupupu was in the same USC signing class as Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. OU's class that year included Nik Bonitto, Jalen Redmond, Delarrin Turner-Yell and Tanner Mordecai.

After seven years at USC that included five medical redshirts, Tuliaupupu transferred to Montana last year and started all 14 games in 2025. He appeared in 23 games as a Trojan.

OU fans and the rest of college football immediately saw the NCAA's hypocrisy with this recent decision. It's as if the NCAA is using a roulette table to decide which players do or don't get more eligibility.

Oklahoma fans immediately realize another NCAA ruling that contradicted its Owen Heinecke decision

And this is not the first instance the NCAA contradicted itself as Sooner Nation waited for the decision on Heinecke.