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Is grad transfer a thing in softball? Graduate on time, gain another year?
Covid extra year eligibility
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Yes. DD's former teammate graduated and then transferred to another school to play her 5th "Covid" year. Not sure how long this will last.
My nephew is a senior at Columbia - there have been a few guys who have moved on to play year 5 at another school. There's a school that has been in contact with him about another year if he choses to go that route.
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Correct, the schools decided if they were going to do this or not, it wasn't the NCAA or conferences. Wisconsin was one school in particular that did NOT do this. They basically told the players "we're sorry this happened, it sucks but we're not going set our program back several years by giving everyone another year". They felt that giving players an additional year would be unfair to the incoming recruits. It's my understanding that all the scholarships that the players were getting were maintained, so the kids still got their education and degrees, which is ultimately the reason they're in college, no? However, their playing careers were obviously cut short. I'm assuming those players could have left Wisconsin and gone to other schools where their eligibility was still in tact.
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9th year of eligibility? WOW. This guy is Bluto from Animal House!!
Miami TE McCormick given 9th year of eligibility
Miami tight end Cam McCormick will return to play for the Hurricanes in 2024 -- his ninth season of college football.www.espn.com
Like this guy. Same recruiting class at Oregon as Justin Herbert. Checks notes.... Herbert just completed his 4th season in the NFL.
Both DD's have another year of eligibility after they graduate this year thanks to the Wuhan Flu. One is entertaining offers as a Grad Transfer (Business) and the other is likely going to be done with softball as she needs to collect clinic hours before continuing school for her PA Masters degree. This will be a bittersweet last season for them running the battery and playing together after all these years.
You mean Senator Blutarsky? Actually I think he's still in the Senate
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NCAA controls eligibility but the Ivy league does not allow graduate students to compete in intercollegiate athletics so Ivy league athletes all had the additional year of eligibility granted to them by the NCAA but in order to utilize it they had to either delay graduation or transfer to another conference for grad school.
I have my issues with the extra year of eligibility granted to all athletes but think the Ivy league was foolish to force these athletes to attend other schools to utilize it
Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f*+@ing Peace Corps.
Yup. I know a kid that graduated from UPenn then played her 5th year at Maryland. Actually led the in team K's.
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