Any word if any have declared to return next year as graduate players?
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Which senõrs are coming back?
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Do we have seniors that are legit NFL prospects if they return?
All players on all rosters, regardless of division, are granted a COVID redshirt year for fall 2020 sports. That doesn’t mean that there is a scholarship for them. And 5th year senõrs must be full time graduate students to be eligible.
The NCAA has not issued guidance on the granting of additional scholarships; they likely will not. Most schools cannot afford to fund an entire extra class of scholarships for what would amount to 4 years. It would take that long for all of the spare years to run their course. It’s a mess really.
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So....in our case we’d literally be granting about 65 players with an additional year but not on scholarship....
and at 50k a year let’s say an added 3 million onto somebody’s scholarship payroll over the next four years...but not football
Because the NCAA has a limit on scholarships TOTAL on a team. Which means kids....if they want to stay would play as a graduate....and are in a graduate program but his scholarship will NOT be funded by Football....
Am I seeing this right?
So....in our case we’d literally be granting about 65 players with an additional year but not on scholarship....
and at 50k a year let’s say an added 3 million onto somebody’s scholarship payroll over the next four years...but not football
Because the NCAA has a limit on scholarships TOTAL on a team. Which means kids....if they want to stay would play as a graduate....and are in a graduate program but his scholarship will NOT be funded by Football....
Am I seeing this right?
I have just texted an athletic director friend of mine regarding whether the school has the option to extend a scholarship and go above the limit. I believe that they can, but many schools - including his - are not offering this because there are not sufficient funds to do so. You are effectively adding an entire class of new scholarships to fund, in an environment where many colleges are being forced to gut their budgets due to COVID.
It’s affecting the big boys too - recall Barry Alvarez back in the spring, saying (paraphrase) “we will not be granting an extra year of scholarships...life sucks, things happen, but it’s time to get on with life.” So that is clearly an indication of how Wisconsin is handling the issue.
This is the way the NCAA should have handled it for all institutions. Instead they punted the issue to the schools to let them be the bad guys. It really left member schools in a jam. Typical leadership vacuum in Indianapolis.
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so let’s say 20 kids at 50k a year
so an extra million Football would have to come up with....
easy...Scott and all the coaching staff volunteer to fund it a “performance incentive”...kinda
so let’s say 20 kids at 50k a year
so an extra million Football would have to come up with....
easy...Scott and all the coaching staff volunteer to fund it a “performance incentive”...kinda
Ok...just got my answer...another year of scholarship IS permitted by the NCAA, taking schools above their traditional limit, but it is not REQUIRED, and is offered for seniors only.
His school IS offering it, and 80% of the seniors at his school are returning and using the scholarship $$$ toward a graduate degree, though he is aware that many schools are not offering this.
However, graduates DO have an extra year of ELIGIBILITY. So we might cabbage onto a few Wisky seniors and pay them to come to Lincoln for a super senior year. The NCAA made a mess of this.
His school IS offering it, and 80% of the seniors at his school are returning and using the scholarship $$$ toward a graduate degree, though he is aware that many schools are not offering this.
However, graduates DO have an extra year of ELIGIBILITY. So we might cabbage onto a few Wisky seniors and pay them to come to Lincoln for a super senior year. The NCAA made a mess of this.
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Funding super seniors can be a trap...your 2020 recruiting class might crash. Joe Sixpack now has 4 classes, plus his own, to compete against for playing time. Anyone who signed a NLI would likely have cause to have it revoked.
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Or they can take a pay cut for 2021 for “lack of performance” in 2020.
That is what I was trying to say. But you said it better. I was trying to be humorous but it’s really not a laughing matter.
