🏀 Freshman eligibility will be up for discussion (One and done's create discussions)

[BAMANEWSBOT]

The item was No. 7 on a 10-point list for NCAA reform ideas that Pac-12 presidents and chancellors sent their Power Five colleagues last May.

7. Address the “one and done” phenomenon in men's basketball. If the National Basketball Association and its Players Association are unable to agree on raising the age limit for players, consider restoring the freshman ineligibility rule in men's basketball.
Several conference commissioners say it's time to consider making freshmen -- or at least some of them -- ineligible, again, for the first time since the NCAA rule changed in 1972.

One-and-done players in men's basketball are the main reason some commissioners want this discussion to occur, and it's not clear whether freshman eligibility interest would decrease should NBA commissioner Adam Silver get his way by pushing the NBA's age limit from 19 to 20 years old.

“I've had conversations with several commissioners about (freshman ineligibility),” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said. “We are pushing, and I think you will see much more serious conversations about it in the coming months and year.”

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[UAgrad93]

The NCAA is thinking of making freshmen ineligible.


http://247sports.com/Bolt/Report-NC...il&utm_term=0_b5300ae947-9f7142c570-221048809

 

[psychojoe]

Dang, freshmen have been eligible since the mid seventies. They came to Alabama in consecutive years, but Charles Cleveland, who was plenty good enough to see the court, was ineligible a a freshman, and Leon Douglas was a high impact freshman.

If they did this effective for next season, Kentucky would come back to the rest of us.

I remember the old days when the freshman TEAM played a game befre the varsity. Back then you could have fifteen players, including freshmen, on scholarship, and you might see a return to that, if implemented.

The NBA and its union would do will to adopt baseball's rule that allows any kid to sign a contrct out of high school, but if the enter college they could not sign until their class had completed its junior year.

 

[Bamabww]

Wow, that would be a big change. I remember when freshmen couldn't play football as well @psychojoe.