Fully agree. My gut doesnt like this, but I haven't figured out why yet specifically.5 years to play 4 was a perfectly fine model imo, it should have stayed that way
Fully agree. My gut doesnt like this, but I haven't figured out why yet specifically.
Maybe there are a lot of athletes with Engineering majors. Don't jump to conclusions!It's just further removing kids from being student-first athletes and shows that we're all about men's basketball and football...not your normal athlete running XC or swimming or any D2/D3 sport. Full-time students should graduate in 4 years. If we want STUDENT-athletes, it should be a 4-year system.
I actually had the opposite gut reaction. I'm not sure if I'll have the same opinion after I sit on it and think about it more.It's just further removing kids from being student-first athletes and shows that we're all about men's basketball and football...not your normal athlete running XC or swimming or any D2/D3 sport. Full-time students should graduate in 4 years. If we want STUDENT-athletes, it should be a 4-year system.
This only looks at one side of the coin. There has to be a subset of student athletes that struggle with balancing the demands of their sport and accomplishing the requirements to get their degree. Five years of athletic scholarship would allow those students, without monetary means, to lighten their yearly load giving them a better chance to accomplish that pursuit. And if they are pushed out from a school because they are recruited over they might have an opportunity to transfer to another school and receive their degree without the restrictions on transferring in the past.It's just further removing kids from being student-first athletes and shows that we're all about men's basketball and football...not your normal athlete running XC or swimming or any D2/D3 sport. Full-time students should graduate in 4 years. If we want STUDENT-athletes, it should be a 4-year system.
It's just further removing kids from being student-first athletes and shows that we're all about men's basketball and football...not your normal athlete running XC or swimming or any D2/D3 sport. Full-time students should graduate in 4 years. If we want STUDENT-athletes, it should be a 4-year system.
I'm not sure that they couldn't do the same under the five years to play four model that was in place until COVID led to adding eligibility to an almost insane number of years.Five years of athletic scholarship would allow those students, without monetary means, to lighten their yearly load giving them a better chance to accomplish that pursuit.
I mean that’s the end of college sports if that ever happens. No one wants to watch a 30 year old playing against kids.Now that there’s money involved I wouldn’t be surprised if some lawsuit results in eliminating eligibility limits altogether. Then we’ll have athletes playing until they retire.
The rumor is this would replace the redshirt yearSo no more redshirting then right or would that make someone eligible for 6 years.
I didn't either. And if it's meant to replace the redshirt year then nothing significantly changes from the sports side of things. However student athletes coming into a university have an opportunity to plan ahead how they might proceed academically in selecting their courses and case loads.I'm not sure that they couldn't do the same under the five years to play four model that was in place until COVID led to adding eligibility to an almost insane number of years.
Logistically sure, but do you really think kids are going to sit out and not play a year of basketball just to lighten their workload? 5 years to play 5 is a lot more realistic for athletes to use than 5 years to play 4I'm not sure that they couldn't do the same under the five years to play four model that was in place until COVID led to adding eligibility to an almost insane number of years.
This is what is what my gut said but I couldn't pull it out consciously. Had I been given another year to do it perhaps.Logistically sure, but do you really think kids are going to sit out and not play a year of basketball just to lighten their workload? 5 years to play 5 is a lot more realistic for athletes to use than 5 years to play 4
This only looks at one side of the coin. There has to be a subset of student athletes that struggle with balancing the demands of their sport and accomplishing the requirements to get their degree.