📝 "...how coaches think the numbers crunch from the extra year of eligibility will impact the 2022 high school class"

[TerryP]

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The thread.

 

[Davestwin]

I had assumed they would make special provisions for the 85 scholarship limit to go along with the special provision they made for the added year of eligibility. Once again, political bodies, sports organizations and college administrations come up with a feel good solution without thinking about the unintended consequences. What a shame.

 

[94 Grad]

Those players in the "extra year of year of play" don't count toward the 85 limit.

From the NCAA extension language:

For D1 fall sports, seniors who have scholarships and who will be using the extra year of eligibility will not count against the team’s scholarship limit for the 2021-22 season.

Someone needs to 'splan to that coach how this works....

Here is an example of how this could play out for a college team:

• A fully funded NCAA D1 FBS football team has a maximum of 85 scholarships. All D1 FBS scholarships are full-rides.
• For the 2020-21 season, the team has 25 seniors on scholarship. Let’s say all of these seniors get an extra year of eligibility.
• For the 2021-22 school year, this program could bring back up to 25 seniors and all of those seniors are eligible to keep their scholarships.
• If the school is able to fund the maximum number of scholarships it can for the 2021-22 school year, they could have 110 athletes on scholarships. That means 25 returning seniors and 85 others.

I'd need to do some more research, but I believe the intent will be that any player using the "extra year" will not count toward the 85 moving forward regardless of what year it is. So, basically for the next 4 or 5 years you'll have some players on scholarship that won't be counting toward the 85. Now, that doesn't mean all D1 schools will be able to fund the extra scholarships, but I would think most of the big boys would easily do it.

This is for the D1 level. I don't believe D2 or D3 has implemented it... yet.

 

[rick4bama]

I'm still not understanding all this!

 

[94 Grad]

I'm still not understanding all this!

Typical NCAA rule is 5 years of eligibility to play 4 years. The covid-19 gave everyone one Freshman to Senior an extra year of each so 6 years of eligibility to play 5 years. Problem is you can only have 85 on scholarship for the team any given years. With the covid-19 extra year it kinda FUBARs the math since your graduating seniors can now stay and play another year. So you're incoming Fr class MAY have to be smaller if you have some SR that want to stay an additional year to stay under the 85 cap.

The NCAA says that for the 2021-2022 session those seniors that stay the extra year don't count toward the 85 limit.

Problem would be in the future 5 years that don't have that exemption.... yet.

I don't think the NCAA is going to not extend it for those future years. I think they want to let the 2021-2022 season run to see how it plays out and if they need to make some modifications to the rules. IE, unintended consequences. For example, how do you treat transfer portal Sr ? Does Alabama get to pick up as many SR from the portal as they can financially afford since they don't count to the 85? In theory we could have 130 or more kids on scholarship if we just wanted to pick up all the SR we could.