re: NCAA considering move to 5 years of Eligibility

Five years of eligibility?
Fine. Five years to play five .
No redshirts, no injury/illness exceptions, nothing.
Clock starts when you enroll.

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College football gonna become the XFL

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we are already there

I have advocated for years the abolition of the redshirt, and just give everyone 5 years to play 5.

Of course this was before the transfer portal.

I haven't seen this proposal or if it also gets rid of the redshirt.

This is going to push NCAAF to a super league.

JuCo years don't count anymore . Now you could get five years.

This is going to make it where super league (B1G/SEC) becomes the "majors", grabbing the best talent via transfer instead of high school players.

Elite HS players can still go to the super league but rosters will just be Elite HS plus portal players - Thus making the non-elite HS prospects go to mid-majors, then be taken by the super league schools later on - which creates the cycle.

I've rolled my eyes at a lot of the "spirit of the sport is gone" posts - but this would put a nail in the coffin to the spirit of the sport. I bitch, but I don't have an answer.

This is bad especially in Olympic sports and non-football where fewer spots exist. There will be ramifications with this into youth and HS sports that a lot of people do not see yet.

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Is the percent towards your degree each year still even a requirement?

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Yes. Plenty of players that transfer still have to sit if they don’t offer general studies degrees at the school because of this.

If this is the case, then no redshirts and no medical redshirts. Injuries happen. Tough luck. You have 5 years to play and that is it. No hardship waivers, nothing.

Punish the ones trying to actually get an education to placate a bunch of kids that have no business in an academic campus.

If this gets rid of redshirts, and everyone just has 5 years and that's it. Id be ok with this.

My fear is it won't be the end of it. You will still have another Diego Pavia who sues because he thinks he should be allowed a 6th year.

I've said it again and again. It will not be long - 10 years maybe - until the eligibility rules are dropped. Players will be able to play for as long as they want, and eventually won't have to be in school at all. We'll have 37 year old adults playing "college ball".

I get mass downvoted each time, but it's coming.

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but there are alot of damn good football players that probably would loved to play an extra year rather then graduate and sell cars

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And a lot of younger college players coming up that would like to get their chance to play. But many of them who don’t have prospective careers at the next level will want to graduate in 4 years and start their real world careers. So now they spend more of their 4 years stuck behind 5th and 6th year guys who weren’t good enough to turn pro, but didn’t play school well enough to have a good career path after their college athlete days are over. So those guys will milk NCAA eligibility for as many years as they can

Pointless and stupid