Just a quick question, I'm sure someone can answer this easy. I was watching a game last wednesday (I can't rememeber which one) and the announcer made a comment about a player who graduated last summer. What is the rule if a college athlete graduates in the fall or summer? I guess you can finish out the season even though you aren't technically a student anymore?

What about 5th+ year seniors? The rule there is that you can only play 4 of the years you are a student right?

[Edited on March 19, 2006 at 1:57 PM. Reason : *aren't]

3/19/2006 1:56:47 PM

you can play as long as the ncaa grants you eligibility

3/19/2006 1:58:00 PM

evtimove graduate

will roach played as a grad student

3/19/2006 1:58:06 PM

have you ever heard of grad students?

3/19/2006 2:00:06 PM

How does the NCAA determine elibibility? So if you went to undergrad for 5 years and then grad school for 2 you could just play 7 years?

^^I was going to say, Estimov was in my geology class and that had to be at least 4 years ago.

[Edited on March 19, 2006 at 2:00 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2006 2:00:11 PM

No, you are limited to four years of play. Evtimov is still playing because he medically redshirted one season. So this is his fourth and final year.

3/19/2006 2:01:21 PM

evtimov had a medical redshirt his sophomore year

you get 4 years of eligibility

if you get hurt you can get another

sometimes you can get more than one (ie chris colmer)

3/19/2006 2:01:23 PM

Ok, that answers my question. Thanks.

3/19/2006 2:01:48 PM

^You only can have 4 years of playing elgibility...that being said Evitimov was redshirted for a year

3/19/2006 2:02:02 PM

you have 4 years of playing eligibility and can be redshirted 1 year. this is what happens for many football players. in the case of an injury you can appeal the ncaa to grant you an additional redshirt (medical redshirt). this is what happened with colmer. he had his normal redshirt year, a medical redshirt year, and 4 years of playing eligibility.

also, your eligibility starts when you first enter college. so if someone walked onto the team in their junior year (3rd year in college) they would only have 2 years of playing eligibility. however, they could still get redshirted to give them 3 years on the team.

[Edited on March 19, 2006 at 2:07 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2006 2:05:35 PM

Yeah I knew the 4 year rule, I just didn't realize it could be broken up due to being red-shirted so thanks for the info.

The way the announcer said it (since he made no mention of grad school) it sounded like this player graduated part way through the season, and yet was still eligible to play basketball. I guess he must've just been a grad student.

3/19/2006 2:09:09 PM

explain chris weinke to me plz

3/19/2006 2:10:03 PM

You have 5 years to play 4 years. The extra year can be to a regular or medical redshirt. You can sometimes get an extra 6th year to play 4 years (like Andrew Wilson at FSU...and I think one of our offensive lineman two years ago).

3/19/2006 2:10:13 PM

wienke played baseball for awhile and then went to college

he then got drafted by the panthers and started sucking

3/19/2006 2:11:43 PM

weinke never went to college directly out of high school. i believe he was a minor league pitcher. therefore his eligibility never started until he actually enrolled in college at the age of 26 or whatever. that is also how south carolina had a player in his 40s this year.

3/19/2006 2:11:58 PM

soooo

say i go back to grad school in the fall
and i never used any eligibility in undergrad

could i pull a weinke and be a 26 year old college athlete?

3/19/2006 2:12:48 PM

no. weinke never enrolled in college. eligibility starts when you enter college, no matter if you are an athlete or not.

[Edited on March 19, 2006 at 2:14 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2006 2:13:12 PM

wish trot nixon would pull a weinke and come back to play qb for us.

3/19/2006 2:34:40 PM