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How would the "get them another season" actually work? Do they increase the 85 scholarship cap? Or do they keep it the same, meaning there are very few slots for new recruits?
 

Livingat45north said:
How would the "get them another season" actually work? Do they increase the 85 scholarship cap? Or do they keep it the same, meaning there are very few slots for new recruits?
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They haven't said, but the NCAA says they keep their eligibility ... so there has to be more room...
 

I presume people like the athletes will be given an extra year of eligibility. There will be more who most likely will choose to graduate on time, or even use their scholarship to pursue a graduate degree.

IMHO, Senior football who want a shot at the pros will welcome the extra season to prove themselves. Most likely they have to figure out on adding one-time extra scholarships over an above the 85 limit for those student athletes who want an extra year.
 



This is all new and will have to be worked out. It is really humorous to hear the national "sports guys" try to fit some scenarios into the normal schedules. All of the old constrains will be thrown out the window.

Obviously, they will make changes to everything.
  • A spring "season" doesn't have to be 12 games, it could be 5 or 6 so it is less of a burden on the players
  • The NFL draft can be moved
  • player eligibility can be extended
  • team rosters can be expanded
  • etc...
It will work out and players, teams will need to adapt. It is unfortunate for this crop of players, but sorry, shit happened.
 

U of M went from one crappy President to another. yay us
 

This is the “easy” way you handle it: make the rules say that any player who is playing in a granted sixth year of eligibility doesn’t count against the 85 limit.

In normal years, it won’t matter much because most teams don’t have any such players (the regular thing is five years of eligibility).

But for the next five seasons (assuming no spring season happens), you grant every player on fall rosters this fall that sixth year, if they choose to use it/are able to use it. And in that sixth year, like I mentioned above, they don't count against the 85 (or max roster sizes, if there are any).
 
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This is complete mess, and the extra year is not going to help the incoming players or the returning players in some cases, since there is only so much playing time.

The real losers are people who will not get scholarship now as schools start to eliminate sports to bail out the water before the whole ship sinks.

In the most extreme cases, schools are are going to end up with the 3-4 core men's sports that make money or break even and the other women's sports that lose less money like volleyball, and whatever else they need to balance out the football team for title IX requirements. Sure the Big Ten can be less brutal with the axe, but these decisions will destroy thousands of lives and dreams.

The good old "if just one life is saved" point of view won out again, even though in the end thousands of kids will go home, and never return to campus, and in some cases die other causes than COVID.
 



I do not blame the ADs for this at all since it was all on the regents and Presidents, and the writing was on the wall. Fighting it was a PR loser. Joan Gabel knows better, but she is new, and lined up with the rest of the herd. Joan Gabel was not going to line up with Nebraska and Iowa and lose in her first test.
 

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