It was reported earlier in April that the NCAA was looking to simplify eligibility requirements by making it age-based. As a recap:
• Five years of eligibility beginning at the time of high-school graduation or age 19, whichever is earlier. • No redshirts or medical waivers • Covers domestic and international players • Exceptions for military service, religious missions, pregnancy and child birth (others under consideration).
NCAA president Charlie Baker expanded on the organization's reasoning Wednesday, saying, "The goal here was to come up with something that was a lot simpler and sort of familiar. If you think about it, we all grow up playing sports and our kids grow up playing sports and it’s U-10, U-12, U-15, U-18, U-20, U-22 leagues, right? The idea of an age-based dynamic or parameter is pretty familiar. That’s the way most of amateur sports is organized in who gets to participate.
“It became pretty clear, pretty quickly," Baker continued, "that a lot of people really appreciated the simplicity of this and the fact that it creates kind of a clock. ... Almost everybody I’ve talked to has said it’s simpler and it’s easier to understand if it returns college athletics to the same window that college is supposed to be attached to. It makes it harder for somebody to show up at the age of 19 or 20 or 21 and claim to be a freshman after playing three years of professional sports somewhere else. There’s a lot of things people like about this.”
Baker also explained that the Division I Cabinet could vote on the new rule in May, with the rule taking effect 30 days later, if approved.
My take: Like I wrote when I first posted about it here, this makes so much sense it's difficult to fathom it came from the NCAA.
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Baker expands on '5 in 5' rule
It was reported earlier in April that the NCAA was looking to simplify eligibility requirements by making it age-based. As a recap:
• Five years of eligibility beginning at the time of high-school graduation or age 19, whichever is earlier.
• No redshirts or medical waivers
• Covers domestic and international players
• Exceptions for military service, religious missions, pregnancy and child birth (others under consideration).
NCAA president Charlie Baker expanded on the organization's reasoning Wednesday, saying, "The goal here was to come up with something that was a lot simpler and sort of familiar. If you think about it, we all grow up playing sports and our kids grow up playing sports and it’s U-10, U-12, U-15, U-18, U-20, U-22 leagues, right? The idea of an age-based dynamic or parameter is pretty familiar. That’s the way most of amateur sports is organized in who gets to participate.
“It became pretty clear, pretty quickly," Baker continued, "that a lot of people really appreciated the simplicity of this and the fact that it creates kind of a clock. ... Almost everybody I’ve talked to has said it’s simpler and it’s easier to understand if it returns college athletics to the same window that college is supposed to be attached to. It makes it harder for somebody to show up at the age of 19 or 20 or 21 and claim to be a freshman after playing three years of professional sports somewhere else. There’s a lot of things people like about this.”
Baker also explained that the Division I Cabinet could vote on the new rule in May, with the rule taking effect 30 days later, if approved.
My take: Like I wrote when I first posted about it here, this makes so much sense it's difficult to fathom it came from the NCAA.
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