Keep is simple. Graduating seniors (even 5th years) who qualified for NCAA Indoors should get another year of indoor eligibility. They have to sort out their schooling and scholarship.
Keep is simple. Graduating seniors (even 5th years) who qualified for NCAA Indoors should get another year of indoor eligibility. They have to sort out their schooling and scholarship.
You were clear. But that still has problems with sorting out declarations. Better to just allow everyone who was competing this year another year of indoor nationals. And then obviously allow everyone another year of outdoor eligibility. I am getting concerned that they are only focusing on people in their last year of eligibility. Every athlete deserves a full 4 years regardless what year they are in.
I think if they do give back winter eligibility they’ll just do everyone because there’s all of the other sports to consider and I’m not sure if they’d do it sport by sport but it is possible. And if they do have it on a sport by sport basis, might as well give all athletes indoor track back cause not everyone will come back and not everyone makes nationals. Wasn’t only seniors that were affected.
dr Know wrote:
You were clear. But that still has problems with sorting out declarations. Better to just allow everyone who was competing this year another year of indoor nationals. And then obviously allow everyone another year of outdoor eligibility. I am getting concerned that they are only focusing on people in their last year of eligibility. Every athlete deserves a full 4 years regardless what year they are in.
I think it should be for seniors only. If you give everyone an extra year, then your creating roster problems down the road for incoming freshman. This is a world wide disaster, there have to be some uncomfortable ramifications. If a freshman doesn't get to do track one year, no biggie.
And I dont think everyone should get another year of indoors. So you can have a 5-time conference champion? That doesn't make anysense. Indoors was basically over. Maybe you let them run them the NCAA indoor meet. But if we give them NCAA indoors then we're going to have to have entire basketball teams coming back and what not.
The question I have is how old is the oldest BYU runner now going to be? Will anyone be 30? ;)
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So you’re saying give indoors to all seniors or just national qualifiers?
See what basketball is doing and follow suit, since track always has to follow what basketball does. I would suggest that any "5th" year returnee not count against the team roster or scholarship totals. That would solve the issue without too much more discourse.
I'd not worry about winter sports at all....All of the seasons were pretty much over....Plenty of kids spend four years not seeing any sort of post season.....It's probably a once in a hundred year thing that the post season was canceled...
Indoor NCAA qualifiers will absolutely be given season of eligibility back.
ROJO you need to be be sympathetic to these runners. Runners that go on missions already have to push back their life for two years to serve others (something that is NOT easy). Now they are being told by the NCAA to push it back another year. It's not easy to just simply do that. They have lives outside of running, jobs lined up, futures to live, families to support, and now they are stuck between moving on or continuing to do something they love. Many of them just simply will be losing their senior track season because they HAVE to move on. This is also the case for many other seniors that had their track season taken away, so i think it would just be important at this point to cool it on the age thing, or simply unjustified hate and be a little more caring of others because we don't know how these athlete's are coping with all of these changes.
If these grampas are so anxious to get on with their lives, why are they already spending eight and nine years at byu? Is byu such a cruddy school that it takes them that long to teach these "kids" four years worth of stuff, or are these "kids" so obtuse that they need nine years to learn four years of stuff? Do they really need all these credits in "religion"? They have been indoctrinated for thousands of hours even before they get to byu. What more can they learn about the planet kolob, magic underwear and the never seen golden plates? Cut the brainwashing classes and maybe they could get out of that dump in seven or even six years.
They aren't doing undergrad work. They are in grad school.
I hope you are incorrect. It just makes no sense to me that a 5th year senior is any more deserving to get 4 years in than a 4th year junior. They both redshirted their freshmen years by choice but now the 5th year guy gets a 6th year to complete 4 but the 4th year guy finishes his 5th year of school next year and too bad? You only get 3 years of competition because of the outbreak.
dr Know wrote:
I hope you are incorrect. It just makes no sense to me that a 5th year senior is any more deserving to get 4 years in than a 4th year junior. They both redshirted their freshmen years by choice but now the 5th year guy gets a 6th year to complete 4 but the 4th year guy finishes his 5th year of school next year and too bad? You only get 3 years of competition because of the outbreak.
Great point. They should all or none get an extra year. What about the Ivies, are they still getting sent away after their senior year no matter what?
Decision on winter sport eligibility won’t be made based on indoor track and field, but basketball like another poster said. And I can’t see them granting players another year of eligibility just because they missed the tournament. There’s no option in basketball to allow affected players to qualify for tournament without conference play, so don’t see that as a realistic outcome for track.
Will the ncaa listen...