NCAA Implementing Academic Red-shirts

[Thanks_Tom RR]

Pete Roussel ‏‪@coachingsearch 17hhttps://twitter.com/coachingsearch/status/468920653140488193

Incoming freshmen in 2016 that graduated HS with below a 2.3 GPA in 16 core courses will be automatic red-shirts. ‪http://goo.gl/oP0k6D http://t.co/IYkcJVsg9V

This is from the NCAA regarding the status of NCAA Division I prospects: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/eligibility_center/Important_New_Rules/2016_DI_New_Academic_Requirements.pdf

Full Qualifier: A college-bound student-athlete may receive athletics aid (scholarship), practice and compete in thefirst year of enrollment at the Division I college or university.

Academic Redshirt: A college-bound student-athlete may receive athletics aid (scholarship) in the first year of enrollment and may practice in the first regular academic term (semester or quarter) but may NOT compete in the first year of enrollment. After the first term is complete, the college-bound student-athlete must be academically successful at his/her college or university to continue to practice for the rest of the year.

Nonqualifier: A college-bound student-athlete cannot receive athletics aid (scholarship), cannot practice and cannot compete in the first year of enrollment.

Now, colleges with lowered academic standards, like those in the SEC, can not entice elite talent, poor academic high school students with early playing time and rubber stamp classes because they would be ineligible to play their first year, though they could still practice with the team. Given the success Nebraska had under Prop 48, I could imagine seeing an up-tick in talent coming to campus because of the academic support available at Nebraska.

 

[Thanks_Tom RR]

Ignore.