By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
The NCAA is one step closer to officially changing its eligibility rules for Division I student-athletes.
On Monday, the Division I Board of Directors directed the Division I Cabinet to move forward with the proposed eligibility model that we first reported on earlier this month.
The proposal would give student-athletes five full years of eligibility, with their clock beginning at the time of their 19th birthday or high school graduation, whichever is earlier.
It also clamps down on the restrictions surrounding waiver exemptions and redshirt requests. Redshirt seasons would no longer exist, and waivers to miss a season without having it count against their eligibility would only apply to a select group, such as those on maternity leave, military service or religious missions.
Currently, student-athletes have a five-year eligibility clock to complete four seasons of competition, with the option to regain a season of eligibility through a redshirt or waiver request.
Read more about the details and the rationale behind the changes here.The Cabinet will have a meeting to discuss the changes on May 22, which could include a vote, according to Yahoo Sports‘ Ross Dellenger.
The biggest question surrounding these changes is whether or not they’ll apply to current student-athletes.
The NCAA said in a statement that the rules won’t be retroactive, so student-athletes who completed their eligibility in the 2025-26 season, including fourth-year seniors, won’t receive an additional season.
“If you’ve used up your eligibility, you’ve used it up,” NCAA President Charlie Baker told ESPN.
“A lot of the coaches, in particular, said this would be enormously challenging in a lot of ways,” Baker said. “And I completely understand where they are coming from. It would also be unfair to a lot of these kids who are going to be part of the new world and weren’t part of the old world.”
Baker said he was optimistic the rules would pass.
“I’m pretty optimistic it’s going to happen,” he told ESPN. “Mostly because the primary conversation hasn’t been about the idea of an age-based eligibility model being controversial. A lot of people are familiar with it because they’ve dealt with it in other settings, and they understand the simplicity of it.”
There is also a new transfer portal rule that was adopted by the Board after a request from the Big Ten.
The rule will allow “schools to decline to enter a student-athlete into the Transfer Portal only if the student-athlete agreed to release the school from that requirement as part of a valid settlement-related benefits agreement with the school, for the period of that agreement,” the NCAA said.
A second rule requires schools on the receiving end of a transfer to prove that they did not tamper.
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