OT: NCAA grants all UVA football players in their last year an extra year of eligibility
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UVA players in final seasons granted another year
The decision comes following a shooting in Charlottesville that left three UVa football players dead.
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Without meaning to comment on the UVA tragedy, it's funny how the NCAA really has very little input in anything to do with major college football anymore, but they can still control stuff like this. Just flexing what little muscle they have left, I suppose.
That's the right thing to do although I can't imagine staying there after such a tragic event. I would need a fresh start if it were me.
Great for those who would want that. Nice gesture.
Probably gives a little bit of heartburn to the coaches who, strictly thinking of business, would have preferred some of these players who might stay, to have moved on. They weren’t a great team before all this happened, after all. Not many will ever state this aloud (for understandable reasons), but keeping it real.
Probably gives a little bit of heartburn to the coaches who, strictly thinking of business, would have preferred some of these players who might stay, to have moved on. They weren’t a great team before all this happened, after all. Not many will ever state this aloud (for understandable reasons), but keeping it real.
Do they have to use it at UVA?
a couple seniors who dont have a shot at nfl should put their names in the portal just to see if there are any takers..
a couple seniors who dont have a shot at nfl should put their names in the portal just to see if there are any takers..
Sorry to be the bad guy, but I dont agree with this. What happened was tragic and those players lost out on playing their last 2 games but giving them an entire new season is going too far. Theoretically, you could have an 8th year senior now
Year 1 Injury
Year 2 Play
Year 3 Injury
Year 4 Play (covid year)
Year 5 Play
Year 6 Play
Year 7 Play (season cut short due to tragedy)
Year 8 (extra year for shorter season)
Their teammates were murdered. Playing a game for an extra year isn’t going to hurt anybody.
Good question. Why make them stay at the place the tragedy happened to play that last year?
This might be your worst opinion, and that is not something I say lightly.
I know you like to sprinkle discontent into threads to keep them going but you're ridiculous.
Exactly what I said. The coaches, of course, will have to nod approvingly and say all the right things, and even agree completely with this concept in the ‘human’ place in their minds, as we all do. But in the ‘strictly-business’ parts of their football coach minds (and wouldn’t those minds be interesting for scientists to dissect) … there are some players they are surely happy to have back, but probably not so much for some (likely many) others, particularly since it was not a good team in the first place.
Wasn’t a teammate also the murderer? I feel awful for them, but I don’t think they should be rewarded for their second athlete on athlete murder.
Is it “flexing” to allow kids to gain a year of eligibility after a tragedy killed their teammates ?!?
Let me ask you this: if the tragedy occurred a few days after their final game, would they still deserve an extra year?
Let me ask you this: Why do you care? It doesn't harm Pitt in any way and it might help keep that program together under particularly difficult circumstances.
yes i agree but maybe they want to go play somewhere else as a 5th/6th/7th year senior..
Like I said, I wasn't commenting on the tragedy. I was commenting on how little power/control the NCAA has with FBS football overall, and they choose to jump in on something like this just to show that they are still around.
Not a difficult concept to grasp, I thought.
So you get to ask really stupid questions about something you really don't care about? Very SMF of you.
SMF is right, this was an over reaction by the ncaa. but frankly uva kind of stinks so it's not really that big of a deal. any player with a shot at the nfl isnt coming back to play for uva and maybe a few marginal players come back but that wont be much of a help for a mediocre team anyways..
and like another poster said, i'd guess most players would probably want to distance themselves from this situation right now..
and like another poster said, i'd guess most players would probably want to distance themselves from this situation right now..
Fine. Sure. Give them the extra year. Doesn't affect Pitt or anyone else.
Now, can you explain why you care so much?
I thought this to be an excellent gesture by the NCAA, but at least two of their starters have since announced their entry into the portal. Perhaps they were headed there regardless.
If the season has already been completed, why would just the seniors get the extra year? Or do you think all players should get the extra year if this tragedy happened after the season?
Pitt and all their other regular opponents should be glad that some of these players might play another year.
Should every Pitt player have received an extra year due to the tragic death of WR Billy Gaines 15 or so years ago?
I dont agree with this..... Shingles doesn't care..
Theoretically, 20 or so players in a single institution where three of their teammates were gun downed could have an 8th year senior now ..... there I fixed it for you..
I'm sure that this has happened before... uh, triple homicide of players from a single team committed by a former teammate during the season which meant the loss of two games due to cancellation.., don't think so.
True, but a single homicide of a women’s lax player committed by a men’s lax player has - at the same school.
But what's the criteria for this extra year? What if a player dies of cancer during the season? Every year there are players who die in off-season accidents? Should the whole team get extra years?
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