NCAA Division 1 Council votes on eligibility

The NCAA Division 1 Council has voted to allow players in any fall sports to play ANY amount of competition and it not to count towards their eligibility.

In essence a player can opt-in for a game or two, and then opt-out if he or she feels uncomfortable about the environment.

Also, this means that should the College Football season close down during the season, players won’t lose eligbility.

This should assuage a lot of fears that the NCAA would take off years of people’s scholarships for opting-out, but it was predictable bearing in mind how badly the organising body has handled the whole COVID-19 situation.

SO WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP HEADACHE?

With the new rules in place, there are going to be 85 scholarships and if there isn’t a rush of players to go to the NFL, we could have another group of commitments come in again. This creates some sort of ‘clusterf***k’ for coaches for the year to come.

The NCAA will not want – going forward – to increase the amount of scholarships to 100-120 each season, because that will allow college football superpowers like Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Clemson etc to hoover up everybody and create much more of a monopoly than they already do.

So why not have a two year 100-scholarship limit for 2021 and 2021, to let the class of 2020 and 2021 essentially cycle through?