How does eligibility work after this year?

[Kat burglar]

I'm confused on this.

Usually it is 5 years to play 4.

Does the 20-21 season not count against 4 years of playing? Is it 6 years to play 4 or 6 years to play 5? does it only effect seniors?

In other words, does Kopp have 1 or 2 years of eligibility left?

Do the freshmen have 4 or 5 years of eligibility?

Sorry, I feel dense.

 

[Styre]

The 20-21 season does not count against your 4 years of playing, which means that all the players currently on the roster effectively have 6 years to play 4. Let's take Anthony Gaines as an example, should he choose to exhaust his eligibility:

2017-18: 1st year
2018-19: 2nd year
2019-20: Medical redshirt
2020-21: COVID-19 waiver
2021-22: 3rd year
2022-23: 4th year

Of course, for players who don't take a redshirt year, there's no 6th season. Let's use Ty Berry as another example, assuming he never redshirts:

2020-21: COVID-19 waiver
2021-22: 1st year
2022-23: 2nd year
2023-24: 3rd year
2024-25: 4th year

When it comes to roster construction, it's also important to remember that the scholarship limit stays at 13. This doesn't affect NU for next year, as we currently have 12 scholarship players signed up for 2021-22. But the following year, 2022-23, will force everyone involved to choose between having Pete Nance and Ryan Greer (and, I guess, Anthony Gaines) return for their extra years or recruiting new freshmen or transfers to replace one or both of them.

 

[GatoLouco]

Does Kopp become immediately eligible when he transfers?

 

[Styre]

Does Kopp become immediately eligible when he transfers?

AFAIK, the transfer exemption was only in place for players who transferred to a new school for this past season, so unless they change it he'll have to sit out a year.

What I don't know is how the graduate-transfer rule is going to apply to players with an extra year. Right now it says that as long as you've earned your degree and have eligibility remaining, you can transfer without sitting out a year. So does that mean that Gaines could transfer elsewhere, play immediately, and play for two seasons at the new school?

 

[Secho99]

AFAIK, the transfer exemption was only in place for players who transferred to a new school for this past season, so unless they change it he'll have to sit out a year.

What I don't know is how the graduate-transfer rule is going to apply to players with an extra year. Right now it says that as long as you've earned your degree and have eligibility remaining, you can transfer without sitting out a year. So does that mean that Gaines could transfer elsewhere, play immediately, and play for two seasons at the new school?

I believe the NCAA is voting next month on a one-time transfer provision that would let anyone who transfers this year to play immediately next year. That's probably part of why there's going to eventually be like 1200 or more players in the portal this offseason. SInce this is Kopp's first transfer, that would allow him to play immediately and have two more years.