Junior College football players NCAA transfer eligibility

[Eagle74]

If the recent ruling holds up, years played at Junior College will not count as far as eligibility for transfers going to an NCAA school.

In essence, a university can start routing potential players (recruits) through partnered Junior Colleges for fine tuning, for 2 years, and then bring them in with full eligibility left.

Personally I don't believe this move will bode well for the recruitment of players for D2 schools where every year they play, they lose a year of eligibility. Especially those players with aspirations of potentially transferring to D1, and the allure of big NIL $$$.

[SW_Mustang]

Functionally, it's how college hockey already works. Kids commit to their college and then play junior to develop. It's very unusual for someone to play NCAA (or even high level ACHA) without having played junior hockey. The downside is you get a lot of 20-21 y/o freshmen on the rosters.

I'm not a fan of it in football for a few reasons - unlike the hockey example, JUCO football is college football. Also, a lot of the local JUCOs give kids opportunities to play that wouldn't otherwise have them from four-year schools. JUCO football is also on shaky ground nationally as it is, and I don't think these ruling will have an effect on that necessarily but adding pressure from bigger schools isn't going to help.

Pavia only pursued it so he can collect an extra year of NIL before getting a real job. Nobody with real NFL prospects is going to sacrifice a year of that to stay in college and risk injury. Sad thing is, New Mexico Military gave him the chance that nobody else would, and he's upset about it.