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SWVAHusker said:
The Big 10 statement said that if a player chooses to opt-out of playing this year, they'd retain their scholarship and not subject to penalties imposed by their school.

Notably, the statement didn't say anything about eligibility.
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Again, would be hard. Say the NCAA freezes ever players grade. Then say, in the highly unlikely but possible case, every player decides to stay and, next year they are still what they were this year (AM is still a 3rd year Jr, Wandale is a 2nd year Soph, etc, etc for all players) then what does the NCAA do? Bump up the scholly limit to 110? Say the loss of players (the ones that go pro, or just leave cause they are done with school) on average, is 10. So theoretically, every school would only be able to recruit next year, again on average, 15 players (remember, every player in the NCAA had their grade "frozen" so it would be like what each scholl has right now, which should be around 85 scholly players; 85-10 that leave = 75.....85 is current max). That would be a huge dis-service to all the SR's in HS (and Juco's) as there would be way less schollies able to be offered....even if the NCAA allowed 110 (or anything higher than the current 85) that woiuld be like the old days where Alabama and schools as such just grab all the talent, then are able to offer the local 3* they normally wouldn't offer to keep him from going to an opponent or somewhere else. Like the old days, that kid would USUALLY just be lost in the depth chart for 4-5 years unless they go to the......transfer portal. They they would have to contend with a ton more students who would be on it.

So, yes, it would be a logistical nightmare, for both the schools and the NCAA. If they don't freeze current grade levels? The players getting royally screwed are the ones without redshirt years available and 5th year Sr's. Others would also lose a year but even a 4th year JR would have his SR season next year available. RFR and RSoph's would also have multiple years left. Not 5th year SR's though. The ones with redshirts available are sitting good. This year would just be their redshirt year, though they wouldn't get the benefit of being able to practice all year and play in 4 games.
 
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Think of the huge financial impact for the non-conference schools that will not receive the $M from the Big10 schools. Assuming the contracts, at least for UNL, are legally voidable due to Covid and no damages are due from the Big schools.
 








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