Coming in 2016 Academic Redshirts, new NCAA requirements

[CuseLegacy]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ew-incoming-eligibility-standards-create-term

 

[All4SU]

High school coaches and guidance counselors have their work cut out for them.

 

[javadoc]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ew-incoming-eligibility-standards-create-term

Some enterprising young journalist should start now. Collect statistics (if they are available) about average GPA for football players from SEC feeder schools. In a couple years, when those same schools are suddenly, magically, inexplicably, gee-oh-really? turning out football players with higher GPA's - statistically significant - start the investigation into why they are suddenly doing so much better. And if it was so easy to accomplish basically overnight, and is a valid reflection of academic achievement, then why weren't they doing it before?

 

[DeepThrowIt]

High school coaches and guidance counselors have their work cut out for them.

exactly! this is so flawed. is the NCAA going to spend time teaching high school admins the new rules? in a lot of cases kids are screwed because their admins have no idea what they are doing. this is going to make that even worse.

 

[All4SU]

I find it incredibly interesting that a debate about possibly paying college players generates page after page of posts. But an article about new academic requirements for players languishes on the board for several days like a dead fish on the beach. Is it really possible that people don't recognize how closely linked these two topics will be in the near future?

 

[Madbiker]

This could be a windfall for junior colleges. There will be lots of high level athletes who won't qualify and will have to go juco for a year or two to get qualified. The idiots running the NCAA won't be happy until they destroy the golden goose then they'll wonder where all the money went. If all these BS rules start to impact the BCS leagues financially to a significant degree, hopefully they break away.

 

[tipphill]

my take is that,baseball unlike football and in some respects hoops, a kid does not need to go to college to play pro. football forces a kid who may have pro level talent and less than college level academic prowess, to attend college. this places the kid in an unfair, embarrassing position as well as the school will "bend the rules" to get and keep him. it is unfortunate that there is not a truly organized feeder system for football like baseball. i know this is totally objectionable to college football as the money they make from these kids is unbelievable. "why do you have to attend college to play professional football?" answer : there is no truly organized sophisticated system , like baseball has.