[hawkeye12345]

The NCAA needs to step in and mandate 4 Yr schollies for all programs nationwide.

It also needs to cap the # of scholarships per year at 25 for football and 3 for basketball with no exceptions. That will give each program 100 scholarship players and 12 scholarship players respectively. You can't 'bank' any scholarships and stockpile for future use. Example: If you only sign 2 b'ballers this year, you can't sign 4 next year to fill out your roster.

Here are the issues that it brings up:

1) Kids can no longer redshirt.
2) Kids that are injured will not be granted a medical redshirt.

Tought ****. They aren't in college to play football, they are in college to get an education.

100 scholarship players, even with injuries, can figure out how to put 11 players on offense, 11 on D and 11 on Special Teams.

You have 4 years to play sports in college once you are enrolled. If you transfer, you can't play in the year you transferred. You must be academically eligible at the time of transfer and you must complete the term that you are currently enrolled in in order to be eligible. If you transfer at the end of the term, you will be eligible to play the one year and a day after that date regardless of whether it is mid-season.


For Coaches:

Coaches are under contract with an institution until the end of the contract period. If they want to leave then they are free to leave but can not coach at another institution until such time as their current contract expires. This probably won't hold up in the courts but the NCAA needs to do something about it.

[bcl20]

.Why?

[tm3308]

Originally Posted by hawkeye12345

The NCAA needs to step in and mandate 4 Yr schollies for all programs nationwide.

It also needs to cap the # of scholarships per year at 25 for football and 3 for basketball with no exceptions. That will give each program 100 scholarship players and 12 scholarship players respectively. You can't 'bank' any scholarships and stockpile for future use. Example: If you only sign 2 b'ballers this year, you can't sign 4 next year to fill out your roster.

Here are the issues that it brings up:

1) Kids can no longer redshirt.
2) Kids that are injured will not be granted a medical redshirt.

Tought ****. They aren't in college to play football, they are in college to get an education.

100 scholarship players, even with injuries, can figure out how to put 11 players on offense, 11 on D and 11 on Special Teams.

You have 4 years to play sports in college once you are enrolled. If you transfer, you can't play in the year you transferred. You must be academically eligible at the time of transfer and you must complete the term that you are currently enrolled in in order to be eligible. If you transfer at the end of the term, you will be eligible to play the one year and a day after that date regardless of whether it is mid-season.


For Coaches:

Coaches are under contract with an institution until the end of the contract period. If they want to leave then they are free to leave but can not coach at another institution until such time as their current contract expires. This probably won't hold up in the courts but the NCAA needs to do something about it.

Redshirt years can be beneficial for student-athletes beyond the field/court. They can graduate in 4 years, and with a redshirt, many such players get in some work in grad school on the athletic department's dime.

And without the redshirt option, there are many kids who may not get a shot because they are the kind of players who could really use that year. Kids who won't get the benefit of a free education because they're a late bloomer.

The 4-year scholly is good, I want to see that immediately. And coaches either need a way of being punished for leaving early, or players need to be able to transfer and be eligible right away. One or the other.

But the rest of this idea is just stupid.

[ssckelley]

I would rather they go the other way with it. Give each kid a 5 year scholarship and make the first year a mandatory redshirt so they can come to school, adjust, and just worry about academics the first year.

[shonblatt]

Originally Posted by hawkeye12345

The NCAA needs to step in and mandate 4 Yr schollies for all programs nationwide.

It also needs to cap the # of scholarships per year at 25 for football and 3 for basketball with no exceptions. That will give each program 100 scholarship players and 12 scholarship players respectively. You can't 'bank' any scholarships and stockpile for future use. Example: If you only sign 2 b'ballers this year, you can't sign 4 next year to fill out your roster.

Here are the issues that it brings up:

1) Kids can no longer redshirt.
2) Kids that are injured will not be granted a medical redshirt.

Tought ****. They aren't in college to play football, they are in college to get an education.

100 scholarship players, even with injuries, can figure out how to put 11 players on offense, 11 on D and 11 on Special Teams.

You have 4 years to play sports in college once you are enrolled. If you transfer, you can't play in the year you transferred. You must be academically eligible at the time of transfer and you must complete the term that you are currently enrolled in in order to be eligible. If you transfer at the end of the term, you will be eligible to play the one year and a day after that date regardless of whether it is mid-season.


For Coaches:

Coaches are under contract with an institution until the end of the contract period. If they want to leave then they are free to leave but can not coach at another institution until such time as their current contract expires. This probably won't hold up in the courts but the NCAA needs to do something about it.

No exceptions? What if a freshman transfers, flunks out, has a career-ending injury, or even dies? You have to wait until he would have graduated to fill that scholly again? How about JUCO transfers?

Under these rules, and with a standard rate of attrition (for any old reason), rosters would shrink down from 100 to 60-70 pretty quickly.

College doesn't actually work out in nice neat 4 year increments for most people. One year you might have 30 seniors, the next year 15. That's just the way it goes.

What's the reason for this?