https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5530608/2024/05/30/ncaa-transfer-rules-...
The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with the NCAA that will permanently bar the organization from restricting athletes' transfer eligibility, it was announced Thursday.
It also requires the NCAA to restore a year of eligibility for current athletes who missed a year of competition since 2019-20 due to the old policy.
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🙄. I would totally have stayed at tech for 6+ years if I could, so I don't blame the players, but I was looking forward to getting past the COVID year stuff and actually being able to keep track of players' eligibility.
This is still the last possible year right? Folks who lost one year of eligibility post 2019-2020, unless I'm doing my math wrong, this would be the extra year. Also, not like many transfer waivers were getting denied the past few years. I'm curious what the total population this actually affects is, because I'm guessing it's small.
Well, logic tells you that any player enrolled in college in 2019 get's a covid year, redshirt year, and grad student year now. So this will linger until 2026 season.
Yeah, I guess you're right, the most extreme case would be (obviously not in this order, just accounting):
19-20 - Year 1
20-21 - Year 2
21-22 - Year 3
22-23 - Year 4
23-24 - Year 5 (Redshirt)
24-25 - Year 6 (Covid)
25-26 - Year 7 (Transfer denial) (might overlap with redshirt, depending)
Still seems like a long-shot that this is more than a few kids. Possible though.
And then there is McCormick from Miami and Rising from Utah... they entered college with Mike Vick.
I feel like Syracuse perfected this several years to decades ago. Seems like they always had a guy in his 6th or 7th season.
It's not hard to do. Rising got a medical waiver in a season where he got hurt in like game 11.
Bowman at OK State
Left off the year you were denied and did not play (required to get it back) and any Grey Shirt,
19-20 Covid year
20-21 Red Shirt
21-22 Sat out for Transfer
22-23 Grey Shirt
23-24 uses first year of eligibility.......
Medical redshirt year...
Brock Hoffman?
While Brock would be cool to have back, he's doing just fine with the Cowboys. Good chance he's their starting center this year.
I'd rather have the two other linemen back that he and his family supposedly helped run off.
Agreed
Yep. Doug Nester is a much, much better college player than Hoffman was.
wait what? I obviously haven't been paying as close attention as I probably need to be... wth happened?
Hoffman's mom got into it with Nesters and Hudson's parents apparently. Some drama there around on and off the field stuff. Now of course I'm sure the head coach being an asshole also played a part in those 2 leaving.
from the direction of Arizona, a bloodcurdling screech is heard
Live look at dcwilson
In fairness, I 100% agree with him on this.
Yeah, I'm there too. I think his rhetoric is a little over the top but I agree with the larger point that all this extra eligibility is ridiculous
Almost feel like it's trying to allow them to gain a little from the NIL and increased payments since they went in w nothing available. Those that could go pro have already gone, but those that were around when the rules changed...here's a dog bone.
I think this is the perfect time for Maurice Clarett to give an NCAA comeback a shot.
If this keeps up, the NCAA will have to offer retirement benefits.
I've been chided many times on here that insane eligibility this is a myth. oh well.
Is anyone trolling DC now about eligibility????
I feel like the NCAA might be at this point.
I feel like this really isn't much of anything? It's a one time thing for a very specific group (those who had a waiver denied in the past four years only), not a forever expansion of eligibility. Doesn't say how many folks are affected, but I'm guessing it's not a ton, given how lenient they've been on granting waivers for just about anything.
Agreed. I think the eligibility thing will get cleared up as we move past COVID.
I'm waiting for the courts to say that eligibility requirements are undue burden on a player's right to employment.....
They are already suing to get that ruling
Tyrod Taylor your 2026 VT QB
Why stop there?
Michael Vick your 2026 VT QB
As a side question, with the flood gates opened up, has the NCAA changed its policy on athletes that went pro in another sport going to college to be an "amateur" in another sport? The typical situation was a guy that went pro in baseball out of high school, got hurt, and then ends up in college as a QB or something. If I remember correctly, they had to pay back a good portion of their earnings in order to return to amateur status even though they were different sports. Does this even matter to the NCAA now since you can get paid for any sport?
When you pay players directly, which was ruled allowable now- they are by definition not amateurs. so fuck everything. The only thing left is not requiring them to ever enroll in the school- which is coming.
JR Smith is currently playing golf at NC A&T so I don't think they care anymore
I guess is has never mattered if it was a different sport. Chris Weinke played several years of professional baseball before he was the QB for FSU. Dude was like 26 or something in the title game when we played them.
Ahh, as we watch random NC State hoops team reach the final four, and Oklahoma Softball win 3 straight titles, and Auburn golf win a natty off of one great individual, UVA probrably win another baseball natty this year, etc, etc, etc, etc. That FSU game pisses me off the more I think about it. They had a 26 year old QB, their top WR should have been ineligible and the late hit (10 yards) out of bounds on Vick as we were driving to tie the game. We had a legit shot to win a team championship in the biggest sport of all- but nah.. 26 year old QBs facing our 20 year old DBs, illegal players, etc. Fuck me
*Bobby Bowden voice* A felony ain't a NCAA violation daggumit
Also, IIRC Janakowski missed curfew during the bowl week and when asked why he still played, I believe the response was something like "well, he's a foreign player so the times are different for him", or something like that.
LOL yes- Bowden actually said "its not like he shot the president" when asked about Janikowski that week. lol
"I like him," Bowden said at the time. "Sure, it's favoritism, but we have the international rule [Janikowski was from Poland]. This isn't a democracy, and everyone doesn't have a vote. It's communism or whatever. I made the decision."
I had to find the quote because a couple of guys that were with me at the title game made a "Tech defeats communism" sign that we didn't get to use.
Yeah, looks like they altered things a few decades ago if it was a different sport.
I'm old.