Is unlimited eligibility the next issue for the NCAA?

I’ve known a few career students. So if you can’t age out academically, can you age out athletically?

Once the players tip over from student athletes to employees, the universities will no longer be able to age discriminate.

It is the slow death of college football.

Ironically, I'd pay money to watch an intramural league of student athletes at that point.

This would actually be a positive.

Kids who are not ready for the NFL will be more likely to stick with a team until they get a chance to perform. Without a finite timeline, they won't be transferring as much to hope to find a better landing spot.

5* right now want to play and be in the NFL in 3 years, so if year 1 looks rough, they start looking around.

3* and 4* might do the math and say "ok, if it takes me 4,5 years to get there, that's ok" and stick with a program.

Big programs won't let a 1* or 2* fumble around for 5+ years but "projects" will get a chance they otherwise wouldn't.

Age out fo sho

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Now that the NCAA has been neutered by the courts in basically every case brought against will we see someone challenge eligibility limits and what would the strength of their case be? Could we see guys, like Johni broome, who are really good college players but not projected as pros stay in college for like ten years at a million or so a pop?

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With the way things are? Why not. Bring back AJ McCarron I suppose and Reuben Foster while we're at it. I'm sure they'd love to come back to Tuscaloosa

I knew a guy at UGA who graduated with his undergrad and masters and had been playing on the club rugby team since he was a HS Jr. His older brother was on the rugby team when he began playing in high school.

Finally by the time he got his graduate degree he stopped playing.

That's 8 years of playing ball, although not NCAA affiliated. If the NCAA is toothless, why can't some career student continue to try to play?

Years in school and eligibility are two different things.

A la Stetson Bennett.

You get 5 years for undergrad (including redshirt if taken) + 1 year for Grad.

Max is 6 years.

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unlimited eligibility

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Once players are deemed employees of the schools, the next step will be to make it where they don't have to be students in good standing. The eligibility issue comes after that, and it seems inevitable.