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NCAA proposes new eligibility criteria

Tony4Canes said:
Trying to figure out who would apply to?

Maybe some backups not good enough for Pro?

Most would have dipped out of classes by now
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Missed this.

In addition to potential lawsuits from eligibility exhausted players (from both class of ‘21 and class of ‘22) who already graduated; there will be redshirt seniors Ala Matthew McCoy + Ahmad Moten or anybody still enrolled & eligible from the HS class of 2022 who will state they are being treated unfairly because they wouldn’t be able to use a fifth year of full eligibility as the old rules capped redshirt years to 4 or less games in order to preserve eligibility.

I think the seniors who already moved on with their lives are much less of a legal liability than the group of current redshirt seniors who would not have been able to maximize all five years of competitive eligibility due to the redshirt rules.

It appears with no more redshirts moving forward; all redshirt freshmen/sophomores/juniors will be able to play 5 in 6 years as the transitioning to the new system takes place. Pete from on3 specified student-athletes whose 4th year of “eligibility,” was completed by spring ‘26; this is Moten and McCoy’s class of ‘22. Class of ‘23 guys like true senior Mark Fletcher and redshirt junior Darian Mensah completed their third year of eligibility this past spring.
 
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Tony4Canes said:
Now seeing some ***** 19 not old enough due to Covid shutdowns

I honestly thought all schools went Online
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Hilarious lol.

Even if i bought that argument, How hard is it to makeup a year of grade school? Everyone, who was in HS when COVID started, is already 19 or older.

(All schools did go online; those folks just want an excuse to justify holding their kids back).
 
Does this impact RRod, Toure, or CSmith? Because if it’s impacting 2026 basketball players, you think the 2026 football players fall in the same criteria. Read an article on ITU and Lake appears to state that these three players are impacted by this new rule and can’t play this year
 
CaneThang2020 said:
Does this impact RRod, Toure, or CSmith? Because if it’s impacting 2026 basketball players, you think the 2026 football players fall in the same criteria. Read an article on ITU and Lake appears to state that these three players are impacted by this new rule and can’t play this year
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No, these three players are eligible to play and are not impacted by this.

We’ll see if the lawsuits retroactively allow players with eligibility exhausted to return. Could spiral into something larger or be extinguished before fall; TBD.

What the new rule does is allow all current college players who were in the HS class of 2023, and younger i.e. this applies to everyone moving forward, to play a fifth year. Mark Fletcher (true senior) and Darian Mensash (redshirt junior) were class of 2023. Fletcher could return to school again if he wanted to.

Redshirts are eliminated as a concept from here on out; however, it appears that players who have already redshirted — like Chris Ewald for example — will still have five, instead of four, more seasons to play. So hypothetically speaking, Darian Mensah could play for us, or elsewhere, for two more seasons after this one in ‘26.

What this rule DOES NOT do, is allow redshirt seniors like Ahmad Moten, Matthew McCoy, and everybody who was apart of the 2022 HS class, to return for another year. However, if the NCAA loses across the board wherein players who already exhausted their eligibility are able to return for a fifth year, say Malik Reneau or David Blay who are the same class as the athletes suing in Colorado and Ohio, that could clear the path for current redshirt seniors receiving another year.

Ryan Rodriguez, Chase Smith, and Toure — first two were class of ‘21 while Toure was class of ‘19 — are eligible to play through medical redshirts. The new rule will eliminate such protections, but isn’t applicable retroactively.
 
The NCAA just came up with a new rule with no player input. Just fabricated it and shoved it down their throats. All players suing will win these lawsuits. Collective bargaining with the players is the only successful path going forward. It may take years, but when the dust settles, the players and NCAA/Universities will have to negotiate all new rule changes together.
 
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With all this NIL money a lot college football players are trying to stay in college as long as possible if they’re not a sure fire 1st round pick

Five years is long enough to prove your worth
 
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