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Originally posted by 3FingeredGlove:
The OP contains enough information to be sure that the player has 2 more years of calendar eligibility in D1. At the end of this spring he will have only used 1 season of competition, and has 3 more seasons of eligibility, but 3 of the 5 allowed calendar years since first full-time enrollment will have elapsed.
Two other factors are important:
1) Was he an academic qualifier when he graduated from high school?
2) During the 2008-2009 academic year, did he attend college full-time, part-time, or not at all?
If he was a qualifier, has a cumulative 2.0 GPA, and averaged 12 hours of transferrable credit per full-time term, then he doesn't need to graduate from the JC. Furthermore, if he met the requirements of the previous sentence, and did not attend college during 2008-2009, then he likely will meet the various academic progress requirements. (I'm not sure how this would play out if he attended the JC part-time.) If he wasn't a qualifer, then he needs to have graduated from the JC.
The rules are significantly less restrictive for D2, D3 and NAIA. The most important difference is that these divisions don't use the 5 year rule. Instead the player is allowed 10 full-time semesters (or 15 quarters) in which to use up the 4 seasons of competition. So the player still has 3 seasons of eligibility remaining, if he didn't attend full-time during 2008-2009. If he has a 2.0, and 12 transferrable hours per full-time term, he doesn't need to have graduated from the JC. He also will likely meet academic progress requirements, even if he attended part-time during 2008-2009. For example, in D2 "a student-athlete shall maintain progress toward a baccalaureate or equivalent degree at that institution as determined by the regulations of that institution."
Checking with a counselor is a very good idea, and it may be useful to email the NCAA with the exact particulars of this player's situation. If he is a qualifier, and baseball is important to him, it may be better to play summer ball.
3FD, If you don't mind I will ask you this in this post since you seem to have a good grasp of this particular rule, plus in another post of mine you mentioned the potential academic eligibility risks of attending a JUCO for 3 years, and then moving on to a 4 year college.
We are looking at all options, and the JUCO route seems to be one of them. The other is delaying a year before entering college. Basically it has come up because our son will graduate from HS at 17. PG has given him a 7 and Baseball Factory a Class 5 (Div 2). To me that basically means he is a marginal college prospect and might benefit from another year of physical development and training. Assuming he wants to continue to give his dream of playing college baseball a shot, his particular situations is this:
1) I assume he will be an academic qualifier since his GPA in core courses is over 3.4 and his SAT is 1200. He will graduate from HS with 22 core courses.
2) If rather than delay a year to enter college, he enters a JUCO on the basis that a JUCO may be the level he has the best shot at trying to walk-on and he doesn't generate any firm interest this summer (JC tryouts, summer team, college tournaments etc.). His other option is to delay a year before entering college, but his Mom and I are not too keen on that idea.
3) Assuming he is a full time student while at the JUCO and taking the 12 hours credit per semester, keeps making good grades, and eventually makes the JUCO baseball team (at his current or another JUCO) and ends up spending 3 years in JUCO, do you think it is likely that he would still be able to meet the academic eligibility rules at a D1(or D2,D3 etc)? Or is this way of looking at the situation too simplistic?
I believe I understand from your previous posts on the subject that he would still have his 2 seasons of playing eligibility remaining, so I guess my question is more about the academic eligibility aspect.
Thanks!
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