@HSDad22 posted:Am I understanding this correctly?
Before Covid, If a player went 2 years JUCO and graduated JUCO, how many years of NCAA 4 year school eligibility would they have had left? I have never found this number.
Then after covid, only one year of eligibility was granted to all current NCAA student-athletes? Right? I mean everyone get's 5 to play 4, right? Now it's 6 to play 4 where a partial or cancelled season doesn't count against it.
It's still only 1 makeup year, so to me it's not really affecting anyone differently than what was expected. Everyone basically HS 2015-2019 (years might be off) who can afford to stay can get that 4th year back. I think looking at it as an Extra Year is kind of misleading. Maybe a lot of people were thinking it was only going to have a 1 year impact and their kid is a few years out and wouldn't feel the effect but now realize it's a 4 year impact not 1.
would really just like to understand the JUCO rule to grasp if that particular scenario of the freshman after 2 years juco is accurate.
for D1 baseball, it's 5 calendar years to play 4 season. it doesn't matter how many seasons were at the juco. for example if a juco kid missed his sophomore season due to injury, but graduated and transferred to D1, he could still play 3 more years.
NCAA granted one extra year to the 5-year clock due to covid.
The juco "issue" is that lots of juco guys played a full season in spring 2021, but NJCAA is giving them a pass on that season anyway (in addition to the 2020 season which was shut down). So if a juco kid gets the NCAA waiver he could come to a D1 campus with 4 more seasons to play, plus 4 years to play those season (the normal 5 years + the extra covid year - 2 years at juco).