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- Posted on: Tue, 01/21/2025 - 5:15am #1266441
OhCanada-ParticipantI personally think 2024-2025 has been the most enjoyable season of college hoops I can remember on the tail end of the Covid 19 super senior exceptions. Having a loaded draft class, NIL deals and the extra year of elegibility has added depth throughout the majority of the power conferences. Its making it alot more difficult for the majority of freshman to get by just off of talent and created a more disciplined or system oriented brand of basketball.
2025-2026 is the last year for the covid exception or “super seniors” automatic eligibility. It has been reported that the NCAA is considering adding a 5th year of eligibility in whats being called the “5 in 5” rule which would give players 5 years of eligibility unconditionally which means no extra years for redshirts or other exceptions.
What route would you like to see the NCAA take, what do you see happening and how do you feel about the current state of NCAA sports?
1+ - Posted on: Tue, 01/21/2025 - 6:21am #1266442
HitsterParticipantPlayers who play the full 4 years in college would be 22 or 23 when they have used up their full eligibility so my mind would be to leave it as it is. There are only two seniors in the first round of this year’s mock draft on this site for example so it will be much more in the 2nd round the seniors will go.
The one good thing about a rule change could be guys who might not be “NBA type” players could make nice NIL money in their last couple of years or more if the rule was changed. But I’d float an idea that guys can get NIL money for more than one year but they would have to commit to a college for a couple of years and not declare before then. You have a guy who looks a really good college player in his Jnr/3rd year and he gets lets say $2.5m over 2 years NIL offer but if he takes this up he has to play the 2 years and cannot declare after a good 4th year.
I’d say no more than 2 transfers if you stayed the full 5 years or maybe only 1 transfer if the rule stays at 4 years. But I’d throw in that Unis could have “one double transfer” on their roster each season – a player who will be making their 2nd transfer so the teams would have to use them very carefully but it would give an incentive to a few select players.
I don’t follow other NCAA sports bar basketball but Gridiron will always be a feeding League for the NFL with the 3 year rule and college athletics remains elite from the reports I read about that. Lots of athletes from here in the UK still look to make the move the US Colleges as the training, coaching and competition is far better than they get at a domestic level unless they are already very elite in their age bands.
1+ - Posted on: Tue, 01/21/2025 - 7:07am #1266444
NorrinRaddParticipantIf it were up to me I’d say yes… but I like Hitster’s idea about the whole thing – with stipulations.
0 - Posted on: Wed, 01/22/2025 - 1:15am #1266482
BothTeamsPlayedHard-ParticipantIt isn’t a “should” issue. The current setup is fine. I have no problem with guys who suffer multiple injuries getting extra time if they want to stay in college. Maybe I am a softy, but I am not opposed to the guy who missed a couple years with cancer, blown out multiple ACLS, or because a doctor didn’t clear a medical condition for a player to compete in a timely manner from being able to have a college athletic career. It just feels as though so much with the NCAA is only operating through the lens of football. The league setups are the clearest example, and are just awful. Florida State is playing Cal on a Wednesday night, and then hanging out of the west coast until Saturday when they play Stanford in the afternoon. Miami is playing Stanford and then Cal. Miami to San Francisco is 6.5 hours in the air. Maybe they save a few minutes flying into San Jose. This means they leave Tuesday and don’t arrive home until maybe 4-5am on Sunday morning. Who else does this? I understand that for football that the volume of players who miss entire seasons due to injuries makes it so that there are simply going to be a lot of 6th or maybe 7th year players. In most sports, it is not common. As such, it isn’t a problem that needs addressing.
0 - Posted on: Wed, 01/22/2025 - 2:10am #1266485
HitsterParticipantCollege Gridiron compared to hoops is a different beast as the top guys are there for the 3 year min as dictated by the NFL and I’m sure this suits the NCAA fine as it gives them top prospects over a much longer time than the one and done NBA guys.
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