NCAA Regulation - degree progress

Academics don’t apply anymore

I seems clear that the only way forward to clean up all the issues with transfers and NIL is to have a collective bargaining agreement, and for that to happen, the players will have to be considered employees rather than students. At that point, I'm not sure it's even going to matter if they are attending classes or not. Hell, they might not have to even be students. It would certainly give them more time to focus on football, which is probably what most want anyway. It could just get crazy.

On the other hand, they might just stop having football scholarships at that point, which would finally open up scholarships for some other sports that are still essentially amateur. Football eats up so many scholarships that we can even give them to everyone on the baseball team. Then again, we might just find that universities just cut scholarships way back to save money.

So really, who knows where we'll end. But some significant changes are surely coming.

Not many "student" athletes graduate in football anymore.

It's all a big front.....the majority of major college football players aren't really in school.

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which would finally open up scholarships for some other sports that are still essentially amateur.

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Lol, those scholarships will just go away, not go to other sports.

Graduating with degrees? LOL

It’s 40% of degree requirements completed after year 2
60% after year 3
80% after yr 4 and beyond

It hasn’t changed

A lot of athletes no longer value a college education

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Then again, we might just find that universities just cut scholarships way back to save money.

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Revenue sharing is going to absolutely kill non revenue sports. College Baseball is finally getting noticed on the national level but I’m really worried about its future. The SEC will obviously still prioritize it but we have to someone else to play for the country as a whole to care about it.

The Olympic sports are fricked at the college level.

Make athletes employees of the athletic department. Players/ADs can negotiate single or multi-year contracts. This doesn’t bind you to the school, only the AD. Players can attend school anywhere they choose.

Logistically, it would be impossible for a student to attend one school and play for another. That puts transfers/buyouts up for negotiations.

It becomes an employment contract, not a scholarship.

I presume transfers lose credit hours in moves from school to school... Changes in majors, low grades... Same issue that might result from any student transferring university.

I had to twist some arms substituting a business technical writing class for a science technical writing class. A person could easily make the case for two different 'classes' but their respective syllabus had a great deal of overlap.