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Spring Athletes granted extra year of Eligibilty By NCAA

Question, if they get extra year do they count against scholarship limit? If so won't that impact depth going forward AND impact the number of "to be" FR for that year (fewer scholarships available to offer)?
 
urfan1 said:
Question, if they get extra year do they count against scholarship limit? If so won't that impact depth going forward AND impact the number of "to be" FR for that year (fewer scholarships available to offer)?
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Throw in Title IX considerations for all these Spring sports and you truly have a numbers game.Not sure how much extra money UR has laying around after the endowment hit over the last month and the precipitous drop in interest rates which negatively affects its returns.
 
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I have to wonder whether many athletes will take advantage of this. One would think that most already have job offers or grad school lined up.
 
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8 Matt Davies Midfield 6-1 Sr. Dover, Mass. / Taft
13 Kevin Todd Attack 5-9 Sr. Collegeville, Pa. / Springford
16 Tate Gallagher Midfield 6-4 Sr. Ardmore, Pa. / The Shipley School
18 Tyler Shoults Midfield 6-0 Sr. Warners, N.Y. / West Genesee
19 Lawrence Galizia Defense/LSM 5-10 Sr. Oyster Bay Cove, N.Y. / St. Anthony's (Hofstra)
28 Jack Cook Defense/LSM 6-2 Sr. Mechanicsville, Va. / Atlee
29 Michael Reale Attack/Midfield 5-10 Sr. Westport, Conn. / Staples
30 Blake Goodman Goalie 5-11 Sr. Pittsburgh, Pa. / Shady Side Academy
40 Sean Menges Defense/LSM 5-11 Sr. Richmond, Va. / St. Christopher's
48 Devin Callahan D/LSM 6-2 Sr. Skaneateles, N.Y. / Skaneateles
7 Adrian Nash Midfield 6-0 R-Sr. Tully, N.Y. / Tully
 
NCAA working on plan to extend eligibility for impacted athletes; area coaches give support despite logistical hurdles

Mike barber RTD 3/13/20

Excerpted.....

“....At Richmond, spring sports coaches on Friday were curious as to how, and when, the NCAA would clarify the eligibility of seniors on their teams. Women’s lacrosse coach Allison Kwolek suggested that some sort of quick resolution would be helpful.

“For them to know that there is that option … but a lot of them have their careers set up and their jobs set up,” Kwolek said. “It’s just hard. For a spring sport, we’re not even halfway into our season yet.”

Kowolek said her seniors are a major reason the Spiders are 7-0 and ranked No. 10. If some of them returned to UR, the program would unexpectedly retain strength.....

Spiders baseball coach Tracy Woodson on Friday recognized the eligibility issue for seniors as “the big question.” He wondered if roster expansion would be permitted so his team could accommodate returning seniors in addition to incoming freshmen.

You work year-round for 56 games. It’s a tough ending for them,” Woodson said of his seniors.

Woodson as of Friday had spoken to almost all of his seniors to gauge their interest in a possible return next season. Some are committed to employment opportunities.

“If you don’t have your dream job, for me, I’m coming back. I want to play,” Woodson said. “But that’s me. There are some guys that like baseball more than they like other things. Others don’t.”....

Richmond men’s lacrosse coach Dan Chemotti thinks not only seniors should get back a season of eligibility.

“All of the springs sports athletes,” he said. “Obviously that’s the senior year for a whole bunch of people and nobody can plan that kind of ending for them.

“But all of these other student-athletes certainly deserve a full four years.”



 
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Division I Council extends eligibility for student-athletes impacted by COVID-19

Schools can authorize an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility

March 30, 2020 6:50pmMichelle Brutlag Hosick

The Division I Council on Monday voted to allow schools to provide spring-sport student-athletes an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility.

Members also adjusted financial aid rules to allow teams to carry more members on scholarship to account for incoming recruits and student-athletes who had been in their last year of eligibility who decide to stay. In a nod to the financial uncertainty faced by higher education, the Council vote also provided schools with the flexibility to give students the opportunity to return for 2020-21 without requiring that athletics aid be provided at the same level awarded for 2019-20. This flexibility applies only to student-athletes who would have exhausted eligibility in 2019-20.

Schools also will have the ability to use the NCAA’s Student Assistance Fund to pay for scholarships for students who take advantage of the additional eligibility flexibility in 2020-21.

Division I rules limit student-athletes to four seasons of competition in a five-year period. The Council’s decision allows schools to self-apply waivers to restore one of those seasons of competition for student-athletes who had competed while eligible in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 spring season

The Council also will allow schools to self-apply a one-year extension of eligibility for spring-sport student-athletes, effectively extending each student’s five-year “clock” by a year. This decision was especially important for student-athletes who had reached the end of their five-year clock in 2020 and saw their seasons end abruptly.

“The Council’s decision gives individual schools the flexibility to make decisions at a campus level,” said Council chair M. Grace Calhoun, athletics director at Penn. “The Board of Governors encouraged conferences and schools to take action in the best interest of student-athletes and their communities, and now schools have the opportunity to do that.”

Winter sports were not included in the decision. Council members declined to extend eligibility for student-athletes in sports where all or much of their regular seasons were completed.

The Council also increased the roster limit in baseball for student-athletes impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the only spring sport with such a limit.
 
I'm not clear on how transfers will be handled with this. The NCAA is allowing schools to go over the scholarship limit to account for returning super seniors and incoming classes, but does it also allow you to add transfers who would be over the traditional limit?
 
The senior who graduates this spring but wants to come back, but with little
interest in getting a major- what courses would he or she, have to take?
I don’t think we have any “basket weaving” courses at Richmond. And would
grades matter if they had already graduated?
What a mess-
 
Good question, SF. I would assume you can't go over the limit to add a transfer, but I'm not sure exactly how you'd be able to tell for sure, either. Suppose we get a transfer tomorrow from an Ivy school and that fills all our available spots for next year...and then two weeks from now, all of our seniors from this year announce they are coming back?

Maybe you have to fit a transfer into your existing allowable number of scholarships.
 
Sources: Patriot League Leaves Fifth-Year Decisions to Member Programs


“...First and foremost, Army and Navy will see their seniors graduate as commissioned officers this spring and will subsequently begin to join their military assignments. Beyond that, many Patriot League members have limited graduate school offerings and, as a result, many seniors who hope to play another year have entered the transfer portal: Colgate, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Lafayette have each had multiple men’s or women’s lacrosse players enter the NCAA’s transfer portal since March 12, and American has had one women’s lacrosse player enter.

Three institutions — Loyola, Boston University and Lehigh — have not had a men’s or women’s lacrosse player enter the transfer portal since the season’s cancellation. One source told IL that it was expected that Loyola and BU would aim to accommodate fifth-years’ return, and another affirmed that is the stance Lehigh would take, as well...”
 
So my reading of the rule would be that any 5th year senior who is returning to your program doesn't count. That sorta screws the Ivy guys and guys from any school that doesn't allow 5th years back (like Patriot) because their opportunities will be a little limited based on no room at some places. But I really doubt they are going to want to open up the grad transfer market to all of this years senior class everywhere. That would be a total nightmare for everyone!!

That said, just the available Ivy guys could be enough to swing the balance of power in Lacrosse a good deal. Hopefully we have enough good grad programs and lax rep to get our share - - - but I'd say it may hurt more then help as the Ivy guys head to P5 schools to play it out. I would expect you might see some players now being asked (or even volunteering) to pay their own way for a year to allow transfers in etc. As the big schools figure out how to play this, I don't know that I see it being any great thing for us.
 
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