548 utenti della rete avevano questa curiosità: Spiegami: How can a college athlete in the United States have seven years in a collegiate sport?
Watching LSU Florida State game and overheard one of the commentators say that one of the players had seven years in college football? I don’t know that much about college sports, but even if you take into account red shirting and the extra COVID time, seven years doesn’t seem like it should be possible.
Ed ecco le risposte:
Everyone starts with 4 years of eligibility. Add 1 year for normal redshirt. Everyone who was in college in 2020 got 1 extra year of eligibility so that’s 2. Now we’re at 6. A 2nd redshirt year can be granted for medical reasons but it has to be approved by the NCAA I believe. So that’s 7 years. It’s definitely unusual but possible for some players.
4 years of eligibility, 1 COVID year, and 1 standard redshirt year gets you to 6 years. You can also get a medical redshirt to get you up to 7.
Medical redshirts are given if a few conditions are met. 1) you have a season ending injury 2) the injury occurs before the halfway point of the season and 3) you play in fewer than 30% of your teams total games. Theoretically there is no limit to the number of medical redshirts a player can get.
Northern Illinois had a player (Kyle Pugh) had an 8 year college career after getting 2 medical redshirts.
Enter the athlete with possible 9 years of eligibility
https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/17/oregon-ducks-cam-mccormick-ninth-year-of-eligibility
You already normally get 5 years of school to play 4 of them, then you add the fact that everyone’s eligibility got extended 1 year bc covid. Then all it takes is some hardship or medical request that got approved, which gives the 1 more year making it 7.
Normally you get 5 years to play 4 seasons. The NCAA decided to not count 2020 towards either, so you have 6 years to play 5 seasons. You can also be granted extra years if you suffer an injury early in the season.