Are you in favor of the NCAA allowing DII athletes 5 years of eligibility?

[BisonBones]

My take is that this is continuing the trend of the NCAA making broad decisions on all of college sports while only considering the small minority of de facto professional teams in men's basketball and P4 football. The vast majority of scholar athletes don't have the same influence on their decisions as the handful of professional athletes.

[BurlingameRoad]

I can't remember where I read it, but I think the proposal is 5 years to play 5 seasons eliminating redshirts and waivers.

I'm on board with it in this fashion. 5 years to play. No waivers, no exceptions. Cutting out the seemingly nonsensical reasons why players do or don't get additional eligibility waivers is a good thing, in my opinion.

[tsull]

I'm on board with it in this fashion. 5 years to play. No waivers, no exceptions. Cutting out the seemingly nonsensical reasons why players do or don't get additional eligibility waivers is a good thing, in my opinion.

I'm not for adding the year but you might be right. Cut out the waivers and stuff. The University of Oregon / University of Miami lineman just finished nine years of eligibility. Let some other guys come in and get those scholarships. That's ridiculous, someone needed to cut him off a long time ago.

[cwfenn]

I'm not for adding the year but you might be right. Cut out the waivers and stuff. The University of Oregon / University of Miami lineman just finished nine years of eligibility. Let some other guys come in and get those scholarships. That's ridiculous, someone needed to cut him off a long time ago.

I don’t know, there’s a part of me that likes to think that I can get out there and contribute at a few months short of 50!

(and then I wake up and remember that I’m a few months short of 50!)

I think I’m leaning towards 4 years plus a redshirt myself, with room for exceptions.