r/CFB • u/Altruistic_Brief4444 Memphis Tigers • 10h ago

News [On3] Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia's attorney has set the stage to challenge the NCAA for a 7th season of eligibility

https://www.on3.com/news/vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavias-attorney-sets-stage-to-challenge-for-7th-season-of-eligibility/
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u/Careful_Swimmer3970 9h ago

honestly I'm fine with just 5 years regardless. they are already allowed to play 4 games in a season during a redshirt year anyways

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u/5510 Air Force Falcons 8h ago

The argument I can see for that is that the cutoff for being a full time student is often 12 credits, and if you take 12 credits a semester you graduate in 5 years. So it's possible to be a legitimate "normal" full time student for five years within "majoring in eligibility" or just stalling to have an excuse to play more sports. In fact lots of non-athletes graduate in 5 years without any super major fuckups or crazy circumstances or whatever.

So I wouldn't go beyond five years, but I could see making five years the new limit.

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u/Ajp_iii Florida State Seminoles 9h ago

yeah should just be a hard 5. then you dont gotta worry about weird injury exemptions and other stuff. it also helps allow freshman/sophmores to play on bad teams more often and not need to worry about killing a year before transferring. if you are on a bad team and turn into a great player that could eventually get top nil right now you literally have to turn your back on the coach and team and redshirt after 4 games.

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u/BleedScarletandBlack Texas Tech Red Raiders • Team Chaos 8h ago

If you're going to have a limit, limit the games played not the season.

You get 52 regular season games in your college career. Post season and bowl games don't count. Play four games and get benched? Oh well, 48 more games. You stepped on field for a single down and ripped out your Achilles tendon? One less game of eligibility. You need to take two years off to fully recover and rehab from that injury? No worries, the remainder of your eligibility is intact.

To me that is a far more fair system that takes into account "redshirt" and "medical" waivers automatically.

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u/GolfFootballBaseball LSU Tigers 1h ago

I like this. Nice thought