Extra year for graduates

[NENick]

Colleges are still evaluated on 4, 5, and 6-year graduation rates. I think allowing 5 years to complete a bachelor's degree and maintain eligibility makes sense.

 

[singsing]

Right. Imagine if this had been the rule back then and this guy had been a stud basketball player. He was at ISU for the entirety of Johnny’s tenure.

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He’s a colleague of my brother on the DePaul faculty and we knew him when we were undergrads in the late 80s.

Niang could come back and get his doctorate in something. Is it going there since the line of pro/amateur sports might as well be removed at this point. Payed amateurs aren't amateur anymore. Will this rule be tossed some day too? A player goes to the league and comes back to finish schooling when their career is winding down? Never thought it would go this far so who knows.

 

[Acer88]

The one issue I see with this is that it gives programs another weapon to push athletes into "worthless" majors that will be easy to graduate from in 4 years. Great, the athlete got a degree, but who is going to hire a guy who got his degree in underwater basketweaving?

Hey, now! You shouldn’t disparage my brother’s major!


(anyhow that’s what he told the dean of the small college he was attending when asked what his major was at an awards banquet after he had something like 20 beers in him. True story)

 

[ISUTex]

How about no? You've used up your eligibility. You are not a doctor. Move on with your life.

 

[simply1]

The one issue I see with this is that it gives programs another weapon to push athletes into "worthless" majors that will be easy to graduate from in 4 years. Great, the athlete got a degree, but who is going to hire a guy who got his degree in underwater basketweaving?

How is this different than just having them float for 4 years and no degree? I don’t understand your point.

 

[simply1]

How about no? You've used up your eligibility. You are not a doctor. Move on with your life.

That’s why they’d get another year of eligibility, as a reward and to offset nil one and done players.

 

[VeloClone]

How is this different than just having them float for 4 years and no degree? I don’t understand your point.

Some kids are going to do that. But there are some kids who might actually want to get a degree that means something. This would be another reason for unscrupulous coaches to pressure those kids into "manageable" (i.e. worthless) degree programs to make sure they have degree in hand after 4 years even though with the demands of a D1 athlete it might make sense for a valuable degree to take an extra semester.