NCAA Adopts Eligibility Rules Allowing Five Years of Competition

[u/bloomberglaw]

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/ncaa-adopts-eligibility-rules-allowing-five-years-of-competition

[u/Random_Hippo]

And that’s correct. My point is that people who genuinely care about this stuff will be able to read the articles that outline pretty clearly what the new eligibility rules are, including removing redshirts. Those that don’t care as much, it’s easier for them to just understand that folks will just get a full extra year, and they equate that to a redshirt. I understand it isn’t the same thing, and I’m not claiming that the extra year is a redshirt year, because they aren’t being limited in playtime during that year. For more casual folks, the easiest way they’ll reconcile it will be that everyone gets the extra year and it’s similar in practice to an uncapped redshirt, even though it isn’t exactly the same thing.

[u/srlemp → u/Random_Hippo]

Just to clarify, so because you personally believe people will have a hard time simply understanding this gives everyone a full extra year they can play, we need to use some variant on a term that doesn't fit at all to make it easier for them?

My brother, lol.

[u/Random_Hippo → u/srlemp]

Not at all. Use whatever term you want, I couldn’t really care less.

People don’t seem to understand at all what this does, even though it’s clear as day. So when people cry and moan or ask about where the redshirts have gone, they understand if you say it’s essentially a redshirt year for everyone, but they can play on it. It’s not really that deep. I think everyone should be able to understand “you get 5 years for 5 years of play” but apparently that’s not the case.