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NCAA grants waiver for all spring-sports athletes to receive extra year of eligibility

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NCAA grants waiver for all spring-sports athletes to receive extra year of eligibility

... decision by the NCAA Division I Council, which handles day-to-day rules making for the association’s top-level schools, will allow those schools to determine how much scholarship aid to give next year to athletes who were in what would have been their final season of eligibility.

That means such an athlete could be offered a place on the team, but $0 in athletic scholarship money.

NCAA rules normally prohibit schools in the Power Five conferences or any non-Power-Five school that makes a multi-year scholarship offer to reduce the amount of aid an athlete receives from one year to the next for athletic reasons.

However, the Council did agree to adjust scholarship limits to account for incoming athletes and athletes who decide to stay for an extra season. Under that arrangement, schools will be able to exceed existing scholarship limits if they give financial aid to any athlete who would have been in their final season of eligibility this year but chooses to return.....
 
This is going to really help our baseball program.
MLB only having 5 rounds in this years draft will impact college baseball programs as well. It certainly limits options for high school seniors. Would guess they all can go the free agent route.
 
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