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Post by bulkey on May 30, 2024 21:34:06 GMT -5
The Athletic (Stewart Mandel) a few hrs ago:
The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with the NCAA that will permanently bar the organization from restricting athletes’ transfer eligibility, it was announced Thursday.
The settlement resolves a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by a coalition of states last December challenging the NCAA’s requirement that athletes who transfer more than once must sit out a year of competition. U.S. District Court Judge John Preston Bailey in West Virginia issued a preliminary injunction at the time that banned the NCAA from enforcing its Transfer Eligibility Rule. The DOJ joined the suit in January.
A consent decree announced Thursday makes that policy change permanent, allowing athletes to transfer an unlimited number of times without penalty. It also requires the NCAA to restore a year of eligibility for current athletes who missed a year of competition since 2019-20 due to the old policy.
I wonder if this affects any important WCBB players?
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Post by UConnChapette on May 31, 2024 10:23:09 GMT -5
Sooooo, will a player be able to transfer mid-year, multiple times. Say, start at one team, transfer to a second team in late December, then transfer to a team that may be in contention for a NC at the end of conference play?
What madness will this bring. There has to be SOME limits, particularly with in season transfers, or there will be chaos.
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Post by UConnChapette on May 31, 2024 10:28:54 GMT -5
I am afraid my days of being a college sports fan may be over. The rich will get richer with all these changes.
Veering off topic,
If football is the driver for so much of conference alignment, I say have a couple of conferences for football only. That conference can be broken into divisions.
All the remaining sports can be grouped into smaller, more geographically aligned conferences. This would help reduce travel costs and create rivalries. There are enough "big" schools in sports like basketball that would make regional alignments a viable option.
Or just do away with conferences altogether.
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Post by bulkey on May 31, 2024 10:43:51 GMT -5
I suspect D-1 football will evolve into something you're suggesting, Chappy. It'll be modeled maybe after the NFL divisions and conferences.
The trick is not to let it look like the minor leagues, like a lesser product to fill Saturdays as fans wait for Sundays. So, local rivalries and the college spirit will still be emphasized, along with the long cynical claim of there being "student-athletes."
Eventually, I supposed, WCBB will get pulled along, either being one-and-done like MCBB, or a similar model. We might eventually say that Caitlin Clark helped make WCBB popular and we might say that, by making it financially attractive, she helped destroy it.
But all that is for the next generation, and we'll sing, as Dandy Don sang, "turn out the lights; the party's over."
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Post by swash on May 31, 2024 15:25:29 GMT -5
Sooooo, will a player be able to transfer mid-year, multiple times. Say, start at one team, transfer to a second team in late December, then transfer to a team that may be in contention for a NC at the end of conference play? What madness will this bring. There has to be SOME limits, particularly with in season transfers, or there will be chaos. I was wondering the same thing. Will we have teams packing extra uniforms on gameday with unused numbers in case an opponent switches at halftime? There HAS to be SOME limitation, right? They've already allowed in-season with a wait until Semester 2. I hope they go no further, but the NCAA has lost every case filed thus far, so who knows. |
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Post by bulkey on May 31, 2024 15:34:24 GMT -5
I'm thinking that "student-athletes" will have to confirm to the normal academic calender, meaning you can transfer at mid-year. But I don't think, once classes pass a certain date (varies by school), that they will be allowed to transfer during the semester. That might be awkward in semester 2, which spans the season. Someone might well play for 2 schools the same year, just like a normal student can study at 2 schools in the same year.
And kinda like trading deadlines in professional sports, which college sports are increasingly becoming.
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Post by linkster on Jun 5, 2024 14:12:09 GMT -5
I am afraid my days of being a college sports fan may be over. The rich will get richer with all these changes. Veering off topic, If football is the driver for so much of conference alignment, I say have a couple of conferences for football only. That conference can be broken into divisions. All the remaining sports can be grouped into smaller, more geographically aligned conferences. This would help reduce travel costs and create rivalries. There are enough "big" schools in sports like basketball that would make regional alignments a viable option. Or just do away with conferences altogether. I'd like to see single-sport conferences. Play football in one, mens basketball in a second, womens basketball in a third etc. Hockey is like that already. |
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