It's a real tradeoff between having a better early developmental experience (with peers) and having "more good" years later in life with the benefit of compounded earlier opportunities in life.
I've also heard a bunch about reclassed (or postgrad) students who basically spend a prep school gap year improving athletically/academically for collegiate athletics recruitment. The service academies have prep schools for this purpose too.
In other nations, some high school grads go immediately into elite sport development pipelines for years before applying to universities for their undergraduate degree.
I'm a bit sad that this begins to take away college athletic opportunities away from non-trad students. I believe there isn't any one prescribed path to college.
Life is what you make of it. All of this comes back to the perversely outsized incentives of collegiate athletics revenue that are skewing the field. The love of money is the root of all evil, some say.
Point of information: the lawsuit is being filed by athletes who would be shut out of a fifth year (under the new rules) because they are one year too old. So they're suing in order to get a fifth year of eligibility because they have used up all four years of eligibility as of spring '26.
No, it's the delayed implementation of the new model that "unfairly" shuts them out of further competition, and they would have liked to have benefited from the new model right away.
I've also heard a bunch about reclassed (or postgrad) students who basically spend a prep school gap year improving athletically/academically for collegiate athletics recruitment. The service academies have prep schools for this purpose too.
In other nations, some high school grads go immediately into elite sport development pipelines for years before applying to universities for their undergraduate degree.
I'm a bit sad that this begins to take away college athletic opportunities away from non-trad students. I believe there isn't any one prescribed path to college.
Life is what you make of it. All of this comes back to the perversely outsized incentives of collegiate athletics revenue that are skewing the field. The love of money is the root of all evil, some say.
(06-25-2026, 08:10 AM)needle Wrote:(06-23-2026, 06:43 PM)82lsju Wrote:(06-23-2026, 01:40 PM)BobK Wrote: https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...asketball/
Just passed.
how long until someone sues????
Not quite a day:
Quote: Less than 24 hours after the NCAA Division I cabinet approved a monumental change in eligibility rules, a group of 15 college basketball players filed a lawsuit in an Ohio state court claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...class-2022
Point of information: the lawsuit is being filed by athletes who would be shut out of a fifth year (under the new rules) because they are one year too old. So they're suing in order to get a fifth year of eligibility because they have used up all four years of eligibility as of spring '26.
Quote:Less than 24 hours after the NCAA Division I cabinet approved a monumental change in eligibility rules, a group of 15 college basketball players filed a lawsuit in an Ohio state court claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.
No, it's the delayed implementation of the new model that "unfairly" shuts them out of further competition, and they would have liked to have benefited from the new model right away.