https://x.com/MattHayesCFB/status/1798048133064372394?t=Y4b6PemMj59eQQdIAGFPPw&s=19
Now itâs high school too.
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https://x.com/AdamZagoria/status/1798044862492876840
And, of course, new AAC commish Pernetti was most recently at IMG.
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Read that earlier. Yep, a med student would certainly have enough free time on his/her hands to also be a college athlete.
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Remember when kids played sports for fun and recreation?
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Crap. Thatâs another idea I wanted to jokingly suggest but it seemed too stupid to be funny.
They havenât lost the plot. They are actively spitting on it.
There it is. Only a matter of time.
Once NBA players lose a step why not go to college and get paid a few years to play there. This whole things gets more absurd by the day.
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Too late then. Of course, pros can return to college and attempt to play a different sport as has been done recently.
Iâm sure some NBA player could file a lawsuit and shop for a judge that would agree.
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JR Smith is the hoopster turned golfer that I was trying to remember. He committed to UNC-CH but ended up going pro straight out of high school and was drafted by the Hornets. After NBA, enrolled at NC A&T to play on golf team with basketball no longer an option but still 4 years of eligibility.
If eligibility rules go away - which I totally expect to eventually happen, then players could absolutely come back to play.
The arguments made to support paying the players are the same arguments to be made about removing eligibility and it supports the direction things have been going for 50 years - from freshmen cant play to transfers sitting out to now we have players that have been in college for 8 years. I know that was partly covid related, but its been socialized. Itâs just a matter of time.
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If players come back to play there will be about 10 freshman a year that can contribute.
CBB and CFB are still the minor leagues as far as overall actual real world playing ability due to the young ages and experience.
Allowing players to come back to school after being pros defeats the entire purpose.
Just scrap it all if that happens.
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I am still waiting for a school to just go to D3 and opt out of this.
I would bet money there would have been schools do it already if it wasnât not wanting to deal with irate alumni.
College sports is a lot of things but itâs also a plaything for the rich and powerful alumni.
"JR put your shirt back on "
We already have Hartford as a recent example of a school dropping to D-III. Then thereâs last weekâs shuttering of 168-year old Birmingham-Southern College for financial reasons, in no small part due to an ill-advised move to D-I that lasted for all of 5 years.
Yes, itâs true that at one time freshmen couldnât play, but that applied only to football and menâs basketball. And of course, those freshmen were actually playing - on the junior varsity teams for those respective sports.
[NOTE: the NCAA did grant Marshall a waiver to allow freshmen on the football team following the 1970 plane crash that killed 37 players.]
Like the freshman playing rule, the sit-out rule for transfers wasnât universal across all sports. It applied to football, basketball, baseball, and menâs hockey.
No doubt there are more instances of players going beyond 4-5 years in college, but those are outliers and almost always medically related. And as we saw recently, two St. Johnâs MBB players were denied an extra year not just by the NCAA but also on appeal in court.
And showing my age, I can remember when hoopsters werenât allowed to dunk (aka the Lew Alcindor rule), with the penalty being a technical on the offending player. Saw that happen in the Mine Shaft during the Bill Foster era!
All of those are true - my point is over the years the powers have moved the eligibility rules. The 4 years was simply tied to time it takes to get a degree. With the importance of grades and an education continuing to decrease with the introduction of unlimited transfers and both the players and schools priorities now being maximizing resources why would the eligibility rules stand if they are seriously challenge by a group of athletes. Regular students can stay in school and work however long the want. It really is a total arbitrary rule at this point that has no point existing in this new age as it restricts the earning potential of players.
Honestly I dont see why we eve have an academic component at this point. The coaches mostly donât care, many of the athletes in rev sports donât care, the school doesnât really care, the NCAA cant hardly enforce anything - all it is doing is getting in the way and costing money. Put them on contract, pay them and let class be an option that comes out of their pay if they want to go to school and do away with any restriction on years.
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