5 in 5 rule

[Anonymous]

The NCAA is proposing a new D1 eligibility rules which effectively makes your college sports career end at age 24. All those parents who have held back their kid to give them an advantage have eliminated a year of eligibility. Also, it looks like getting recruited out of high school will get harder too because the transfer portal will be continuously swamped with 5th year players. Good luck everyone.

[Anonymous]

The 2027 were screwed with the 38 roster limit but 5 years for all will be even worse for the 2028s.

[Anonymous]

How many years are most people routinely playing college sports?? More than 5? Past age 24??? I mean, when do you grow up and get a job? If you're that good you'll be playing pro before you're 24, so, like...

[Anonymous]

It’s when you have a kid dropping out of college and goes to Europe to play pro basketball but then realize he can make more money playing college basketball is the US, then this kid returns to college as a 26 year old and take an 18 year old’s roster spot. It’s happened.

[Anonymous]

Someone explain to me how this doesn’t screw over 2028s or even 2027s committed, where they were expecting kids to be graduated now will remain on depth chart

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s when you have a kid dropping out of college and goes to Europe to play pro basketball but then realize he can make more money playing college basketball is the US, then this kid returns to college as a 26 year old and take an 18 year old’s roster spot. It’s happened.

Used to be a fairly regular thing for multisport kids who got drafted to play baseball out of HS to wash out of the minors at age 23 and then go and play college football.

[Anonymous]

This is potentially crushing for 27-29s

[Anonymous]

At some point it will equalize with an expected number of ins and outs. ACC and big10 will just get that much harder to get recruited out of high school.

[Anonymous]

I think it will hit 2029s the worst. There will still be a lot of uncertainty for the 2028s and I think we see fairly normal classes for 28. But really tough for 29s and 30s probably.

[Anonymous]

Ugh I don’t understand how it is crushing for 27s-29s or make getting recruited out of high school harder. Can someone explain it for me again in easy to understand terms? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

It’s not. People are being dumb. This is to stop the basketball and football kids from redshirting constantly. Very rare for a lacrosse girl to play longer than 5 years. It’s not hurting. Transfer portal can take away some opportunities from HS but won’t for most programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh I don’t understand how it is crushing for 27s-29s or make getting recruited out of high school harder. Can someone explain it for me again in easy to understand terms? Thank you!

With the 38 roster limit, and 5 years of eligibility instead of taking 8-10 kids yearly and losing 10 kids yearly, you’ll only use 1/5 of the roster so 7-8 kids. Less players to replace means less kids you need to bring in.

Then you will also have star players in portal going to top programs, the NW BC MD UNC will want the 5th year transfer over the unproven HS commits, so again you’ll prob have 5/6 HS class, and 2-3 for portal kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not. People are being dumb. This is to stop the basketball and football kids from redshirting constantly. Very rare for a lacrosse girl to play longer than 5 years. It’s not hurting. Transfer portal can take away some opportunities from HS but won’t for most programs.

It’s rare because it’s not normal to Redshirt lax players but now all get 5 years of eligibility, it’s not that complicated.

[Anonymous]

Don’t forget the 2-3 years of compression where the current players stay and extra year like during COVID.

[Anonymous]

Okay thanks I think I get it. It’s limiting in some respects but also making permanent the expansion to 5 years of eligibility for all. What % take that extra year though?