2024-2025 Graduating Seniors with at least 1 Year JUCO, Granted 1 More Year of Eligibility

[GamecockFam]

I posted this in the Gamecock thread but I thought I would open up the audience to all women's basketball. Which players in WCBB will this ruling allow for one more season?

Sakima Walker at South Carolina is one. Any others?

Note this is only applicable to:
1. Players who would have run out of eligibility after the 2024-2025 season.
2. Players who have played at least one year in JUCO.

From my understanding this only affects the players that meet the above conditions because the courts are still deciding. Once it is made final, then we can open the door to all JUCO players.

 

[cancontent]

Apparently this could also be leveraged by athletes who played in USports or the Canadian College Athletic Association (CCAA).

 

[Bigboote]

Yeah, I saw this. I guess with the extra year of covid eligibility expiring, the NCAA had to do something to keep pissing off a subset of their fan base.

 

[MSSportsGuy]

Yeah, I saw this. I guess with the extra year of covid eligibility expiring, the NCAA had to do something to keep pissing off a subset of their fan base.

Well they succeded lol. Given this stage of the game, won't this potentially cut out even more freshmen and create havoc with roster planning?

 

[TC22]

Well they succeded lol. Given this stage of the game, won't this potentially cut out even more freshmen and create havoc with roster planning?

The NCAA just keeps adding to it’s own chaos. What a dang fiasco.

 

[packwrap]

The NCAA just keeps adding to it’s own chaos. What a dang fiasco.

It's a result of NCAA losing another lawsuit last week to a former JUCO football QB, who was looking for an extra year of eligibility.

The ncaa did not do this willingly. They granted the extra year only to this year's senior class for now, while appeal goes forward on this ruling.

This could get even worse. The free market argument is that anyone enrolled in at least 12 credits, should be eligible for college sports.

Any 32 year old can enroll in 12 credits at Alabama. Why should that student not be able to be on the college team?

Hopefully, ncaa can finally get congress to help on 2025, if the House lawsuit is settled.

 

[WBBTakeover]

This is going to be a mess.

 

[azfan]

Hopefully, ncaa can finally get congress to help on 2025, if the House lawsuit is settled.

Trying to recall the last time that happened.....

 

[jumpstart]

The NCAA just keeps adding to it’s own chaos. What a dang fiasco.

The NCAA has it's hands tied behind it's back. This is not going to stop until all players are considered employees and their eligibility is not tied to the universities except in name only....ala the NBA, NFL and other entities name tied to a city. Those athletes are going to be contractual employees with the time frame for employment decided by the employee and employer. They will play the length of the contract and college athletics as we know it will be long gone. You might see 'club' teams pop up but it's not going to have any impact on the play for pay programs. I hate it has come this far but we haven't seem the end of this yet. We are no longer the land of opportunity. We have become the land of 'greed' lead by billionaires who don't give a crap about anything but money and power. End of story....for a whole generation and those to come.

 

[Ozimoto]

Welcome to the era of the "seventh year senior." There was one playing for Toledo in their bowl game yesterday.

 

[Bigboote]

The NCAA has it's hands tied behind it's back. This is not going to stop until all players are considered employees and their eligibility is not tied to the universities except in name only....ala the NBA, NFL and other entities name tied to a city. Those athletes are going to be contractual employees with the time frame for employment decided by the employee and employer. They will play the length of the contract and college athletics as we know it will be long gone. You might see 'club' teams pop up but it's not going to have any impact on the play for pay programs. I hate it has come this far but we haven't seem the end of this yet. We are no longer the land of opportunity. We have become the land of 'greed' lead by billionaires who don't give a crap about anything but money and power. End of story....for a whole generation and those to come.

I do hope that whatever's decided by whoever decides these things will differentiate between big-time money-making athletic programs and everyone else, which is the vast majority of athletic programs. I have no idea if this is possible, though. In order of clearest to least clear:

How about D III and D II schools? With the courts involved, will a decision apply to small colleges?

What mid- and low-D I schools? HBCUs? Places that really can't afford to pay players and hire lawyers to draw up contracts with them, will they need to, I dunno, move down a division, nix athletic programs? And they you have the Ivies, who don't have athletic scholarships and have their own drummer to march too. But you also have the Dartmouth (football? basketball? ski?) team that's already sued to get union recognition.

Of course, if some line is drawn, there would be a whole new round of litigation around just where the line is drawn. Nothing good can come of it.

[/rant mode]

 

[jumpstart]

I do hope that whatever's decided by whoever decides these things will differentiate between big-time money-making athletic programs and everyone else, which is the vast majority of athletic programs. I have no idea if this is possible, though. In order of clearest to least clear:

How about D III and D II schools? With the courts involved, will a decision apply to small colleges?

What mid- and low-D I schools? HBCUs? Places that really can't afford to pay players and hire lawyers to draw up contracts with them, will they need to, I dunno, move down a division, nix athletic programs? And they you have the Ivies, who don't have athletic scholarships and have their own drummer to march too. But you also have the Dartmouth (football? basketball? ski?) team that's already sued to get union recognition.

Of course, if some line is drawn, there would be a whole new round of litigation around just where the line is drawn. Nothing good can come of it.

[/rant mode]

I agree. There will always be a system in place that people will challenge. There maybe be club teams at the schools who can't pay players or they may choose to only take students who will play for an education. There is probably a market for that but it will be a small market at best. I do not like where it has gone...or where it's going. I am losing interest and I think the average fan is getting more disinterested as time goes by. These kids at UNC years ago that were taking basket weaving were not getting an education in return so I guess something had to give but it went too far. I will follow my team until it gets to the point it's just a business. It's practically there now. I quit the NBA, NFL and MLB for that very reason.

 

[triaddukefan]

I agree. There will always be a system in place that people will challenge. There maybe be club teams at the schools who can't pay players or they may choose to only take students who will play for an education. There is probably a market for that but it will be a small market at best. I do not like where it has gone...or where it's going. I am losing interest and I think the average fan is getting more disinterested as time goes by. These kids at UNC years ago that were taking basket weaving were not getting an education in return so I guess something had to give but it went too far. I will follow my team until it gets to the point it's just a business. It's practically there now. I quit the NBA, NFL and MLB for that very reason.