"Lots of people go to school for 8 years."
Jaydin Eierman
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Put me in the camp of hey the NCAA botched this take full advantage of it young men. Say good for him for being at this level and grinding it out this long.
Those are the kids that got screwed
Not sure. The two that pop into my head as past champs were CeJo and mark Hall. I think The older Valencia may have been a senior also. To be able to have another year, you had to have a year of eligibility left. The Ivy League in wrestling and originally the big ten and pac 12 in football are reasons that they made this year not count, so they wouldn’t lose a year since others played and you didn’t. I think it would have been better to just go by individual schools/conferences and say if your school doesn’t compete, then you get another year.
The problem with last years seniors was decisions were not made until basically the start of this year. Most had probably moved on and either took jobs, signed with clubs to go the Olympic route and such. The decision would have needed to have dropped immediately to have give enough time for last years seniors.
Yeah...I don’t think there were any potential 4 timers impacted. There are better folks than me to answer with confidence though.
I don't believe there were any possible 4 timers impacted. Hall would have been a two-timer, but could have been a 4 time finalist. Cenzo lost to Mekhi Lewis the year before, and Valencia had to miss the end of the season anyway due to failed drug test. Don't quote me on any of this, but I think thats what would have happened.
I agree and I didn't address the timing of things. I just don't like how the NCAA made a broad rule across all sports. IMO it would have been easy to have each sport make it's own "covid exceptions". By giving this years kids an extra year you're essentially rewarding the TrFr whom didn't miss anything and also hurting incoming recruits for years to come. My rule would only apply to the guys whom actually qualified for the 2020 tourney. Everyone else would lose a year just as if they would have in any normal year. This could have been applied the same way for basketball.
Baseball should be different since they lost essentially the whole season... Anyone whom participated in Baseball last year should get another year... However the incoming Freshmen (TrFr) shouldn't get an extra year.
IF someone has/had a job lined up then they would make a decision on if they would move on. That's really no different than any athlete who graduates in 3 or 4 years and decides to forgo his/her final year(s) of eligibility. However a guy like Pat Lugo would have the choice (assuming the coaches allowed it) to come back and get a shot at his 4th NCAA tourney.
It still would limit everyone to 4 tourney's and would have such a ripple effect on future recruiting.
Had this same discussion with buddies of mine. We all agreed that they should not be allowed to wrestle in more than 4 NCAA tournaments.
