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1-liner, College Basketball, College Football April 18th. 2009, 8:30amTips: Charlie Ward played on the basketball team for 4 seasons at Florida State. He also played 2 seasons of football at FSU. (At least that’s what I could find.) Can someone explain why Greg Paulus only gets one season of football eligibility? If he wants to work towards a Masters or another undergraduate degree, why doesn’t he get up to 4 years for football eligibility? This is just another case of the NCAA having rules that don’t apply to anything that’s a bit outside the box. Rebuttal? Tips? (alumnigonzo@gmail.com)
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
It’s not about how many seasons you play, it’s about how long you have to play those seasons. It’s been awhile since I had to know the rules, but I think you have 10 college semesters to use your eligibility or something like that.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Makes sense, but I say Paulus doing grad work for 3 more years is more legitimate than most of the guys at the Future Pro Factories.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I believe the rule is that you have 5 calendar years to use your athletic eligibility after you start your eligibility clock. That’s why guys have to petition the NCAA for a 6th year even even if they get hurt before they play a single game in that fourth playing season.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Maxwell is on the money…
April 18th, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Also, I’m aware he played basketball and football during the same years.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Something between Maxwell and Partager is correct the last I heard about that rule.
However, why doesn’t the NCAA change the rule to seven years total with four max in any given sport to account for guys getting a Master’s or Law Degree baffles me.
I have a feeling perhaps in 2011 that Obama will shake up the NCAA for stuff like this to some degree including that BCSBS. The timing would be perfect for him with the election looming in 2012.
Much to deal with for the rest of us until we get there though.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
The rule is weird but it goes like this:
Once you enroll at a college/university that has the sport in which you wish to compete, you have 10 semesters/15 quarters to complete four seasons of competition whether you compete in that sport or not. It doesn’t matter that you didn’t even try out for that team, the moment you enroll at a school with a team in that sport, the clock starts.
Because he earned (or is going to earn) his degree, he is allowed to go to a different school to finish that last year of eligibility in football without sitting out a year. But he still has only 10 semesters/15 quarters to finish those four years of football eligibility; since he’s going to enter the last year of that football eligibility, this is going to be his last year of college football.
Had Duke not had a football team at all, he would be enrolling in grad school at Michigan with four seasons of football eligibility and have 10/15 terms to do it there. But of course, he wouldn’t be able to complete in hoops for the UofM.