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Redshirts can play, transfers can roam under new NCAA policy

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:20 pm
by Omega
From the: NCAA

College athletes competing in Division I football can participate in up to four games in a season without using a season of competition, the Division I Council decided this week at its meeting in Indianapolis..


Division I student-athletes have five years to compete in up to four seasons of competition. The new exception allows football players to preserve a season of competition if, for example, injuries or other factors result in them competing in a small number of games.

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Re: Redshirts can play, transfers can roam under new NCAA policy

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:30 pm
by Omega
I am conflicted on these rule changes. D1 football is gravitating away from being a college game to that of becoming more like the NFL. Yet college athletes deserve the opportunity to play along with not having to be a slave to their original scholarship team.

What say you ??