This post includes the latest updates we have regarding college athletic organizations and the impact on current student-athletes as well as on high school or junior college recruits. NCAA Spring Sport Competition All winter and spring championships have been cancelled by the NCAA. Some individual conferences could choose to still conduct a portion of a […]
This has obviously been a shocking week as the tremendous impact of the coronavirus continues to unfold. We’ve been receiving a lot of questions about the impact on the eligibility of college student-athletes as their sport seasons are being cancelled – in some cases right before or even during a game (Big East Conference basketball […]
With March Madness quickly approaching, we remind all that while many states have now legalized sports gambling, it is still expressly prohibited for those participating or working in NCAA athletic programs. An NCAA student-athlete’s participation in sports gambling, or sharing information that can be used by sports gamblers, can result in being ruled ineligible by […]
If you are a parent of a high school athlete who is taking online courses of any kind, we advise you to make sure that those courses will be accepted as “Core Courses” by the NCAA Eligibility Center so that the athlete can be classified as a Qualifier. We were recently contacted by the parent […]
With the changes to the NCAA Division I transfer rules that have been implemented over the last 18 months, starting with the introduction of the Transfer Portal starting in October 2018 and continuing through to recent changes, some student-athletes have assumed that they can transfer and “automatically” be eligible to compete in their first year […]
The NCAA Division I Transfer Waiver Working Group recently announced that they will likely propose a change to the Division I transfer waiver considerations. If adopted by the Division I Council in April, scholarship athletes in the sports of baseball, basketball, football, and men’s ice hockey will essentially be able to use the One-Time Transfer […]
Now that the excitement and media attention devoted to National Letter of Intent “Signing Day” for football recruits is starting to wear off, college coaches are going back to work by recruiting walk-ons to their teams to fill roster spots for kickers, punters, long snappers, and other positions to provide depth on their teams. We […]
The “redshirt” rule is quite different for NCAA Division III athletes than it is for NCAA DI and DII student-athletes and can have major consequences if not known or understood. NCAA Division III rules require that an athlete be charged with one of their four “seasons of participation” if they participate in a game, or […]
With NCAA DI & DII spring sport seasons starting up, we’re reminding college athletes and parents that any amount of participation in a game or contest against another team will count as a season of eligibility used. (The NCAA DIII Redshirt rule is quite different). The only way to get that season “over again” is […]
Frequently, I consult with parents of college athletes about the academic eligibility requirements their athlete needs to satisfy in order to remain eligible at their current school or possibly transfer. When they tell me “I withdrew from all of my classes prior to the drop/add date for that semester” I cringe. Because while that may […]
