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NCAA considers 5 years of eligibility

Looks like the NCAA Good Idea Fairies didn't take a holiday break.

doesn't this pave the way for 'professional sports' in college? 4 years of school is one thing playing sports is another. Just seems like a more separatist move between student/athlete and the 'college/university'. I know, I know, wake up and smell the coffee!
 
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I’d be OK if this guy was 2nd to that feat (not condoning this account that thrives on screenshots in lieu of originality, but I like how they’re thinking here):

This would totally suck!!! 5 years of actually competing? Does that mean 6 years in a program with a redshirt year? Just when I thought we were finished with all of this COVID extension nonsense...and other very questionable extensions (Dillion Gabriel and Miami's Cam McCormick's 9 year NCAA career comes to mind, ) and now we get rumors of this continued stupidity! Now college wrestling will actually include fully matured men wrestling against kids just out of high school. How fair is that? The COVID rules didn't help the wrestlers (and other athletes) who were actually hurt by the pandemic shut down anyway. I don't blame Carter for using the current ruling, but let's not continue this nonsense. It's just a greedy NCAA grasping to stay relevant :mad:

BTW, who is the wrestler in that photo? I probably should know, but I don't.
 
Among the many problems with this idea: it will inherently crowd out all but the very best incoming fteshmen. And for those who do get in, welcome to the up-or-out business model, applied every year.

Coaches across sports are incentivized to win now, or you're fired. So when supply is expanded, demand will expand to match. (And with NIL, grad supply will expand until burnout.) Development will be for somebody else.

If this ever happens, the only solution is no roster limits AND no requirement that everyone gets a full ride.
 
Roster limits are already in the works.
House settlement provides ~$20M revenue sharing per year per school that opts in. Years of eligibility changes neither the numerator or denominator regarding individual payments.

Bigger student athlete pool would likely mean better athletes (but it's hardly a change at all, if RS is eliminated as part of it).

All things considered, I think the NCAA is just getting ahead of the curve of declining birth rates, because it needs a quality product to sell to generate revenue. The number of births per 1,000 US women ages 15-44 reached an all-time low in 2023.
 
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Among the many problems with this idea: it will inherently crowd out all but the very best incoming fteshmen. And for those who do get in, welcome to the up-or-out business model, applied every year.

Coaches across sports are incentivized to win now, or you're fired. So when supply is expanded, demand will expand to match. (And with NIL, grad supply will expand until burnout.) Development will be for somebody else.

If this ever happens, the only solution is no roster limits AND no requirement that everyone gets a full ride.
Don't most educational programs/degrees take 4 years. How are they going to change that. An athlete could go part time but then funding goes down? None of this bullshit makes sense.
 
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Don't most educational programs/degrees take 4 years. How are they going to change that. An athlete could go part time but then funding goes down? None of this bullshit makes sense.
Grad classes. Get a 2-yr MS in your major, then a 2-yr MBA, then a 3-yr law degree. That's 7 extra years right there ... and if you told me that I could defer the real world for 7 extra years in a college town AND get paid NIL for it, I'd find a way.
 
Everyone is going to become a doctor. 😉
Live look in at AJ Ferrari after his residency:


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I think they should do this but for HS. Let the really stupid kids keep flunking and dominating at whatever they're good at. They can get NIL money to play for big prep schools. How good would Bo Nickal be right now if he wrestled for SEM?
 
I think they should do this but for HS. Let the really stupid kids keep flunking and dominating at whatever they're good at. They can get NIL money to play for big prep schools. How good would Bo Nickal be right now if he wrestled for SEM?
most schools don't allow kids failing to participate in sports at least not where my grandkids go!!
 
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