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Message: [QUOTE="WestCoast, post: 3482847, member: 10114"] There are a lot of people who have responded that the winter sports seniors simply need to move on with their lives because their regular seasons were complete. I understand the stated concerns as well as the challenges required to overcome to try to provide some kind of final opportunity to those impacted by the tournament cancellations. Athletes are typically granted five school years to play four seasons. Redshirt seasons are granted routinely based upon whether the athlete played in less than 30% of their regular season. Exceptions are also granted by the NCAA for special circumstances. The cancellation of the tourneys due to the epidemic is a unique special circumstance. The fact that the NCAA is even considering doing something for the impacted winter sports seniors is a sign that the NCAA is either evaluating the potential of future litigation or attempting to evaluate how to do the right thing for a group of athletes that were negatively impacted by an unprecedented NCAA decision/action. I am all for giving that limited group a final opportunity to go out the way that they had earned this year and had dreamed of as young players, with or without a scholarship. Limit the opportunity to those who haven't already used a redshirt season if necessary. Give those impacted seniors something other than a spring term comprised of remote learning, no graduation ceremonies to celebrate the attainment of a degree, sheltering in place and/or observing curfews for what may be weeks or months, and the memory of earning a postseason tournament bid with their team and not being able to experience that opportunity. [/QUOTE]

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