All of this will fizzle out for 2026 season in D3. So this years freshman will be the first to play a year not effected by excess 5th/6th year players.Laxdds wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:54 am I think we can all agree W&L is a great school.
Back to the question at hand re: 5th yr and in some cases 6th year players. When is that going away?
Or is it a side effect of the COVID years that will be with us from now on. I think we can all agree that if a D3 school can enroll 2, 3, or 4 players that are 22-23 years old and have 4 years of collegiate playing experience, those schools will have an advantage over schools that can't or maybe won't.
How much of an advantage is the question.
Allowing those players that were screwed by COVID a chance to make some of that up was the fair thing to do and am glad the NCAA did it, my personal opinion going forward is, if you have completed you undergraduate degree and have been on a roster for 4 years that should be the end.
It really doesn’t matter at the end of the day. Yeah it’s helpful if you can do it, but beat the teams in your schedule or don’t schedule them.
It has been cool to see some of these guys make some noise at the highest levels of D1