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NCAA Division 1 Council to vote today on eligibility
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:30 am
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:30 am
The NCAA Division 1 Council is set to vote today on eligibility for college athletes. The Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) of the power 5 conferences issued the following letter last night. LINK
As I see it they will do one of the follow:
Give seniors a year back
Give everyone a year back
Give no one a year back
How do y'all see this playing out?
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“We are aware that eligibility relief presents extreme challenges for universities and the NCAA. Our job is to stand up for what we believe is right and fair for athletes,” the letter states.
The group is requesting “immediate support” for housing and food for student-athletes. With many campuses shut down during the pandemic, access to food is an issue the group wants member institutions to remedy. It suggests more awareness and access to the Student Assistance Fund, which is intended to assist in covering student-athletes’ non-athletics-related costs while attending an institution.
“If the NCAA focuses merely on eligibility relief and does not aid those who are unsafe and unable to pay for food and shelter, then we have already failed our peers as collegiate athlete leaders,” the group wrote.
The group requests that all athletes that did not have the opportunity to complete their championships season be given an extra year of elgibility. That would include all Division I spring sport athletes as well as winter sports athletes who qualified for postseason events that were canceled.
The third request is to have returning seniors’ scholarships renewed and those scholarship not count toward financial aid limits.
“Roster limits and competition fields should also be expanded to accommodate returning seniors and incoming freshmen,” the group wrote.
“Now, more than ever, it is imperative for our college athlete community to unify and support each other by standing up for what accurately represents the unified voice of college athletes. We are United as One.”
As I see it they will do one of the follow:
Give seniors a year back
Give everyone a year back
Give no one a year back
How do y'all see this playing out?
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:32 am to JamalSanders
So they are lumping the spring and winter sports together in the decision?
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:33 am to JamalSanders
I think just give seniors a year back.
To be clear, this would include all basketball teams, correct?
To be clear, this would include all basketball teams, correct?
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:35 am to JamalSanders
I won't make a wag, but I personally think nothing should be given back. This is life not golf. Life moves on and college athletes need to move on.
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:40 am to arcalades
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I won't make a wag, but I personally think nothing should be given back. This is life not golf. Life moves on and college athletes need to move on.
I can understand not giving it to winter sports like basketball.
But spring should absolutely get it back. Especially since they shut campuses down in the midst of all that. The NCAA can suck it up and make an exception.
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:43 am to JamalSanders
Just my opinion:
Winter sports shouldnt get anything IMO, basketball was already basically over when all this hit, we were in conference tournaments.
Spring sports, all athletes classification gets frozen a year, if you were to be a senior this year, you're a senior for spring 2021. If you were a junior in 2020, stay a junior in 2021. The next tough spot for this is how to increase roster/scholarship limits for a year to make room for this, incoming players and little outgoing players.
Winter sports shouldnt get anything IMO, basketball was already basically over when all this hit, we were in conference tournaments.
Spring sports, all athletes classification gets frozen a year, if you were to be a senior this year, you're a senior for spring 2021. If you were a junior in 2020, stay a junior in 2021. The next tough spot for this is how to increase roster/scholarship limits for a year to make room for this, incoming players and little outgoing players.
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:46 am to diddlydawg7
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To be clear, this would include all basketball teams, correct?
The SAAC wants to give it back to winter sports, but the D1 Council has only said it is appropriate for spring sports so far.
Posted on 3/30/20 at 11:47 am to BluegrassBelle
You waive roster limits for 1 year to accommodate the athletes. That should allow everyone to get back under the number fairly easily.
Some schools may not be able to afford the scholarship hit financially, especially with the NCAA not getting its tournament check. If they have weak endowments with the hit it took in the financial markets, money will be tough for some schools. I don’t have an answer for them.
Does the NCAA take up the “what if” scenario with 2020-21 football and basketball yet?
Some schools may not be able to afford the scholarship hit financially, especially with the NCAA not getting its tournament check. If they have weak endowments with the hit it took in the financial markets, money will be tough for some schools. I don’t have an answer for them.
Does the NCAA take up the “what if” scenario with 2020-21 football and basketball yet?
Posted on 3/30/20 at 12:39 pm to phil4bama
For the reasons you mentioned, you give seniors a year back now and allow any current Juniors who want an extra year beyond 2021 to put in a waiver after conferring with their coaches as a 5th year would take a spot from a recruit.
Football is such a larger sport by volume of scholarships that it’s going to be really tough to make a call. They’d better be realistically planning now for how they could afford to bring guys back for a year across the board because it may not be financially possible for all AND bring in a whole class, even with a waiver of scholarship limits for a year
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Does the NCAA take up the “what if” scenario with 2020-21 football and basketball yet?
Football is such a larger sport by volume of scholarships that it’s going to be really tough to make a call. They’d better be realistically planning now for how they could afford to bring guys back for a year across the board because it may not be financially possible for all AND bring in a whole class, even with a waiver of scholarship limits for a year
This post was edited on 3/30/20 at 12:45 pm
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