NORMAN - Oklahoma’s offseason has been tangled up in the kind of eligibility fight that has spread through college basketball this summer, and Porter Moser isn’t hiding how he feels about it.
The Sooners landed several transfer additions after the 2025-26 season, but two of them - center Duke Brennan and guard B.J. Edwards - entered the mix with their 2026-27 status under scrutiny because each had already played four seasons at different schools. Brennan’s path ran through Villanova, Grand Canyon and Arizona State before he arrived at Oklahoma, while Edwards’ situation has also been tied up in the ongoing questions over who gets to play next season.
A federal judge in Colorado ruled in July that athletes who graduated high school in 2022 would be eligible, but appeals have been working to undo that decision and leave players such as Brennan and Edwards on the outside looking in. Brennan is currently temporarily eligible for Oklahoma’s 2026-27 opener against East Texas A&M, while Edwards is not.
Moser, though, sees the issue pretty simply.
“I have very strong opinions about it,” Moser said. “I saved spots for this. I didn’t run anybody off - I would never do that to anybody.”
That stance fits the moment college sports are in. Moser took over at Oklahoma in 2021, just as the NCAA was still sorting through the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to shortened seasons and all the disruption that came with them, the NCAA gave every student-athlete in every sport an extra year of eligibility.
Moser said that decision created a ripple effect that hit the Class of 2022 especially hard, because fewer athletes in that group drew scholarship offers out of high school while older players were still able to remain in school.
“The year behind them got an extra year. The year in front of them got an extra year,” Moser said.
“That class got hurt when they gave everybody a COVID year, which I thought was the right thing to do. But the right thing to do now… it could create less mental problems for these kids.”
The NCAA has since adopted a “5-for-5” model, giving student-athletes five years to play five seasons, though the Colorado ruling in the summer of 2026 opened the door for another layer of uncertainty.
Brennan said keeping track of it all has been exhausting.
“I was always on Twitter,” Brennan said. “I knew a lot of different cases, a lot of different things that they said. And you had to keep up with it.”
There is at least some stability inside Oklahoma’s locker room. The Sooners brought back guards Xzayvier Brown and Dayton Forsythe, forward Derrion Reid and center Kai Rogers after the 2025-26 season, and Moser said that core has helped keep the noise from taking over.
“Your leaders, you want them to model what you stand for,” Moser said. “(Brown) and (Reid) both, I’ve seen it, really, in their voices.”
Oklahoma is still waiting on clearance for forward Tae Davis, who played his fourth collegiate season at OU last year.
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