Court Ruling Today- JuCo doesn’t affect NCAA Eligibilty

How long does this go back?

I ran JuCo cross country and track in 1999 at the latest. Yeah, I am old, but I see times at a D2 school which I can run. I figure under old rules, I'd have 1 year of D2 eligibility.

didn't they just give the kids back their "one year" if they had sat the out transfer cooldown?

based on how few kids MLS promotes up from the nextpro development squads to the first teams (as well as selling the primary broadcast rights to apple that many people don't have or don't want to pay for) i don't want them anywhere near college soccer.

in reality, what i think they would be trying to do is create a breakaway superleague for the traditional powerhouse programs, like the european superleague. those teams drop NCAA and go semi-pro and year round.

the rest of college soccer would probably be left be.

they maybe even then make the college teams into PDL-type U23 teams that feed into specific MLS squads. MLS these days has been big on player dibs. college has been the one exception to dibs -- the players get drafted. if, say, UNC becomes charlotte's U23 team, then charlotte owns the US pro rights on anyone who the tarheels sign, if they later go MLS.

in practice this has resulted in lots of sneaky games being played, eg, FCD fleeced the dynamo for several kids who were living in houston.....richards, cappis, one of the servanias. magically turn up on FCD's academy team.

personally i want MLS the heck out of college soccer. kids pick college who want out of these dibs gambits.

Do I have this straight?

we let an (another) athlete who’s unlikely to earn good money doing his sport professionally (because he isn’t NFL QB caliber), pit the court system against the ncaa (again), and the court decided we should all change our rules (again) so that marginal athletes can have more time to get paid by academic institutions and their fans/supporters?

When the answer could (should) have been, you’ve been in college for 7 years, you’re not good enough to go pro, you’ve exhausted your eligibility within the organization’s existing rules. It is time for you to put your 7 years of college on a resumè and get a job.

Is that generally what we’re looking at here?

side point, but it's a common fanboy fallacy about NCAA to pretend like it's a 3 month soccer season and nothing else. we were allowed several weeks of spring practice and a few spring games.

i also do not think the folks pushing a longer regular season have considered what games in january in minnesota would look like. it seems to be very popular in this country to mimic europe. some parts of the US would be frigid and similar to something like sweden -- where they don't play in the winter.

Break 15 and I’ll get you eligible for my team

Per your post that gap years for missions or military service create unfair age advantages -

What is the benefit to society to have that service? Versus what is the benefit to society to ensure 26/27 year olds can't compete in D1?

It seems to me, discouraging service, in order to ensure no arbitrary 26yr old ever competes is a poor trade off.