Should seniors get another year of eligibility?

[Plebe]

Is "do-gooderism" such a bad thing in today's uncertain world, especially if any cost would have to be either paid by the student-athlete or financed within the current number of approved scholarships?

I don't mean "do-gooderism" as in actually doing good things. I mean a misguided attempt to do something good, but which creates more problems than it actually solves.

Of all the problems that actually need solving amid a pandemic and impending economic crisis, I would hope that the people intent on making a positive difference are directing their focus elsewhere.

 

[WestCoast]

I am far more concern with the folks whose paychecks will cease. No one will give them a do over. So yeah! I think the way athletes are viewed and treated is skewed. I understand having feeling for a kid but it isn't tramatic. It is a bump in the road. I lost a year of sports as a junior in high school because a school board member stole a lot of money. I lettered both freshman and sophomore and competed for state championship. So I thought this is our year. I was disappointed but then I thought the coaches would lose income. In small coal town there were not many options to make up the money other than heading for the coal mines during the summer.

Me, too. Lots of people will be without jobs soon. The unemployment rate estimate that was being floated today was 20% within the next month. Not a good time to be trying to find a decent paying job for the first time.

Sorry to hear about your high school athletic experience and disappointment. Our past experiences often shape how we feel about future circumstances that impact other people. I can understand why you don't support the opportunity for other people who likewise faced disappointment during a formative time in their lives. Probably toughens them up and gets them better prepared for greater disappointments in life.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Is "do-gooderism" such a bad thing in today's uncertain world, especially if any cost would have to be either paid by the student-athlete or financed within the current number of approved scholarships?

It's just strange to me.

If the NCAA does this, the only thing that happens is some young people who had their seasons curtailed by a national emergency get to play another year of college basketball...if they want to.

I get bent out of shape by ad hoc decisions regarding eligibility that don't really make sense from case to case, but I can't imagine what there would be to be upset about in a blanket waiver.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

I don't mean "do-gooderism" as in actually doing good things. I mean a misguided attempt to do something good, but which creates more problems than it actually solves.

Of all the problems that actually need solving amid a pandemic and impending economic crisis, I would hope that the people intent on making a positive difference are directing their focus elsewhere.

Granting kids another year of eligibility will hardly affect anything that is happening in the world to address the pandemic.

 

[UConnCat]

 

[Centerstream]

Report: NCAA unlikely to grant an extra year of eligibility for basketball players

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[WestCoast]

Report: NCAA unlikely to grant an extra year of eligibility for basketball players

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I know the concept fights an uphill battle. Still clinging to some hope for those seniors who would welcome the opportunity one final season, assuming that our world returns to normal by the fall and on campus college studies and activities return across our country.

 

[Centerstream]

I know the concept fights an uphill battle. Still clinging to some hope for those seniors who would welcome the opportunity one final season, assuming that our world returns to normal by the fall and on campus college studies and activities return across our country.

As others have stated, those seniors played their final season. Some didn't get to play in a postseason conference tournament and all (well 64 teams) didn't get to play in the Big Dance. Oh well, that is life and there is a lot more to it than college basketball. But this is not a new or original thought, just the proverbial beating a dead horse.
My college career was stopped by something called Vietnam and I survived that minor setback.

 

[oldude]

As others have stated, those seniors played their final season. Some didn't get to play in a postseason conference tournament and all (well 64 teams) didn't get to play in the Big Dance. Oh well, that is life and there is a lot more to it than college basketball. But this is not a new or original thought, just the proverbial beating a dead horse.
My college career was stopped by something called Vietnam and I survived that minor setback.

I’m sure you weren’t particularly pleased with all the folks who received college deferments during that time.

 

[Rixxx]

Center, thank you for your service. I am so glad you made it back as I am for my high school classmates.

 

[Centerstream]

I’m sure you weren’t particularly pleased with all the folks who received college deferments during that time.

I had no problem with that but at the time was naive. I just believed that if a deferment was granted, it was the right thing for that person. I also felt that if a person got a deferment then that was one less family that would most likely not experience a loss due to the war.

 

[Centerstream]

Center, thank you for your service. I am so glad you made it back as I am for my high school classmates.

Thanks Rixxx. My college experience was stopped but I had also learned a couple of things. I enlisted in the Navy before I got my draft notice (I would have been drafted due to my lottery number) and joined the submarine service, got good Naval Training and most importantly, avoided the actual battlefield.

 

[willtalk]

Centerstream---- Yes I can understand your position. I joined the Army, because I couldn't stand the uncertainty of not knowing my future. Instead, I decided to choose my own future rather than wait in limbo for someone to make it for me. That was my choice, so why should I object to those that got deferments for legit reasons. I also always had a lot of respect for true consciences objectors, although I also personally knew some that were fake as a three dollar bill.