This is going to open an entirely new can of worms, and it may even be more appropriate for the "Aritocrat sport" thread, but here goes ....Laxattackjack wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:09 pmIf you think one extra year for D1 is bad, D3 didn’t count 2020 or 2021. There are kids playing 6 years.Crease Crank wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 12:47 pm Hoping to bring everyone together with this question. Can we all agree that the NCAA giving players an additional year of eligibility due to Covid was a terrible decision? It’s awful what this has done to the ‘20-‘22 classes. And I say this knowing that if I was given the extra year, I would have certainly taken it. Plus, it would have eliminated much of these aggressive debates.
Back in the late 70s when I played I missed my junior year due to a fall semester broken wrist that didn't heal in the spring until two weeks before I started my summer lifeguard job at North Hempstead Beach Park. While eligible to, I didn't think for a second that I should extend my playing career by a season by staying in college an extra year. Money - couldn't spend it on extra credits and had to start a job to start making it - was absolutely a factor.
So even with a pittance of NIL and a portion of an athletic scholarship how, and why, are today's student athletes spending an extra year or two in college - some of them essentially so they can play a game? Do they not care about their loans, or are mom and dad above upper middle class income earners?