New NCAA eligibility standards

[B1GEast]

Good article from ESPN, new possible term "academic redshirt"

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ew-incoming-eligibility-standards-create-term

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Interesting. This is will have a much bigger impact in hoops. The Squid cannot be thrilled. True frosh rarely see the field here anyway, so I think this has minimal impact on us. Some of the SEC schools may need to wait a full year before putting some of their 5 star studs on the field. Good.

 

[Carl Spackler]

uconn already has strong academic requirements, no biggie for us when it comes to admissions. Not surprising in the least that SEC was pushing for 'academic' redshirt criteria to go along with the more stringent NCAA eligibility requirements.

Also reinforces the importance of open, and solid lines of communication between university staff and high school administrators, coaches and guidance counselors since direct contact with recruits is so limited, and only comes later in their high school careers. These regulations start affecting 13-14 year old kids going into high school in the fall, that won't have contact with coaches for 2 years or more from now.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Interesting. This is will have a much bigger impact in hoops. The Squid cannot be thrilled. True frosh rarely see the field here anyway, so I think this has minimal impact on us. Some of the SEC schools may need to wait a full year before putting some of their 5 star studs on the field. Good.

Agreed, basketball will be affected the most by this. Those kids that can play ball, but might not be great in the classroom are going to need some strong academic support systems. to get eligible.

 

[Dann]

why didn't they put this in place retroactively starting 2moro????????// becuase they didn't want to hurt the kids and so they start clean with hs frosh this fall. makes alot of sense. they also just lost the uconn battle in court for our apr punishment. TAKE THEM TO COURT NOW! Our roster plus 1 more big man for minutes and boards can make the ncaat just to poop in ther eface.

 

[freescooter]

Agreed, basketball will be affected the most by this. Those kids that can play ball, but might not be great in the classroom are going to need some strong academic support systems. to get eligible.

I agree that this will be most felt for basketball. It will be interesting to see what happens when the first high school all american who can't qualify for the NBA DRAFT and can't meet these requirements...you will hear lots of whining about that...This, by the way, is one thing that the NCAA should have done years ago.

 

[huskypantz]

This rule hurts the Temple's, BSU's and Memphis's of the world - schools who take the kids that didn't qualify for UConn, Cuse, BC, PCU etc. Ironically, the three schools I named are all in the BE now anyway and would have to meet BE standards anyway.

 

[pj]

I never understood why partial qualifiers went away.