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re: Should the NCAA make students be enrolled for 1 year before they play?
Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:26 pm to PeleofAnalytics
Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:26 pm to PeleofAnalytics
How is it any different than the nba not drafting out of high school? It may be…just don’t see it unless someone can show that it is. And yeah…old enough to remember freshman not playing.
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Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:28 pm to junior
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Should the NCAA make students be enrolled for 1 year before they play?
What would be the point? You want to deprive a player of a year of eligibility so you can jerk off over some kind of forced loyalty?
Things like this just show that the fans don’t care anymore about the players than the players do the schools. Both sides see the other as nothing more than a means to further their interests.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:56 pm to Wildcat23
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How is it any different than the nba not drafting out of high school?
Courts look very differently at limits like this when they are set by a collective bargain agreement between the two groups and a rule that is unilaterally set by only one. If you look at the Maurice Clarett ruling, that is a big part of their decision.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 2:43 pm to captdalton
So a person, graduates, joins the military for 6 years then gets out and walks on…. They aren’t eligible?
Posted on 5/20/26 at 3:32 pm to Diamondawg
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I can remember when this was the case. Pretty sure Archie Griffin played 4 years so it must have started (playing Freshmen) around 72 or 73.
1971 was the last year of Freshmen ineligibility. 1972 was the first year they could play varsity.
The reason they changed it is because it was too expensive to have freshman teams, coaches and competitions in every single sport.
Freshman football and basketball teams played about a five or six game schedule. But they had to have freshman baseball schedules, freshmen track meets, tennis and golf matches.
The other reason it happened is because the next year (1973) they implemented roster limitations and recruiting limitations. 105/45. You really couldn't field a freshman team with 45 guys.
So some teams who could afford it went to JV teams. But they slowly dwindled away as more freshmen played varsity and they kept paring away the size of squads and recruiting classes.
The last of the JV teams was maybe '80 or '81 and by then only the really wealthy programs had them.
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