NCAA Extra Year Given

Good for the kids, but this creates some logistical problems.

Are returning seniors’ scholarships going to count against limits? How do you balance that with signees that have signed to take their place?

What if they graduated and can’t get into grad school? What about academic redshirts? What about those on Mormon missions? What if you were academically ineligible but get eligible by next spring.

There will be a recruiting free for all over all the graduating seniors that suddenly have another year of eligibility and can transfer.

this doesn't really affect outdoor track since there haven't been meets so no potential redshirts have been burned. they need to give back a year of winter sport eligibility too.

and the ivy league needs to allow impacted seniors to compete as grad students next year.

ox0200 wrote:

this doesn't really affect outdoor track since there haven't been meets so no potential redshirts have been burned. they need to give back a year of winter sport eligibility too.

and the ivy league needs to allow impacted seniors to compete as grad students next year.

There have been several outdoor meets. It will be interesting when they release the details.

It will probably be as simple as granting an extra year. No increase in scholarships above 12.6 which means some of these extra years will be offered no scholarships. And of course they will have to be in school whether it be grad school or undergrad.

Will this apply to 5th years too (like a mission)?

What does this do to the incoming freshman class? Low recruitment/scholarship opportunities?

If it parallels school closures it's just a hiccup.

Not so much because most have signed already so the impact will be to the returning kids.

I wonder if they will consider winter sports as they didn’t have the opportunity to complete a championship.

I wonder if this means those that haven’t signed yet won’t have much opportunity

Yes. That is the case. I don't expect them to raise the scholarship limits. They may be allowed additional roster spots for a year though. I am waiting to see if they are granting everyone an additional year or only people who were in their last year of eligibility.

If they dont raise the scholarship limits then the whole thing is pointless anyway. The scholarship limit is some artificial number to begin with, but that's a whole different conversation.

It is no pointless. Many good runners attend grad school after eligibility is up. They would be able to run another year.

They are giving 5 extra years to the byu grampas. That is in addition to the redshirt, medical redshirt and mission years byu already claims. byu will get 13 years total, but they can appeal for more if they don't feel that their runners are old enough.

I think it will cause so many problems it's not even funny. For instance, coaches already promised scholarships to incoming Freshman based on the expectation that seniors are graduating. Now the seniors will be coming back. Someone will lose their scholarship.

Not to mention you go to college for an education, not to play sports that you won't turn pro in.

No problem. LOI can't be rescinded. If another kid comes back and there are no scholarships, he is on his own. Simple math.

The question I have is about indoors. The ruling is for spring sports. For indoor track, I was talking to a D1 caoch today and he was like, "I don't think they should get another season EXCEPT i think it would be cool if they'd give those who qualified for NCAA indoors, NCAA indoor meet eligibility back. Just for NCAAs. They shouldn't be allowed to run conference next year but let them run NCAA indoors - assuming they had eligibility this year."

I loved the idea.

rojo wrote:

The question I have is about indoors. The ruling is for spring sports. For indoor track, I was talking to a D1 caoch today and he was like, "I don't think they should get another season EXCEPT i think it would be cool if they'd give those who qualified for NCAA indoors, NCAA indoor meet eligibility back. Just for NCAAs. They shouldn't be allowed to run conference next year but let them run NCAA indoors - assuming they had eligibility this year."

I loved the idea.

So are you going to have 2 NCAA indoor meets? One for the kids who qualified in 2020 and one for the kids in 2021? One double size indoor meet? I don’t see how that idea would work well.

Old and slow wrote:

So are you going to have 2 NCAA indoor meets? One for the kids who qualified in 2020 and one for the kids in 2021? One double size indoor meet? I don’t see how that idea would work well.

No. Maybe I wasn't clear.

You don't give people extra ncaa indoor eligibility. However, anyone who made ncaas this year but is back next year can run ncaa indoors if they qualify. They don't get to run the conference meet however.