Apparently this is being discussed for the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 schools. If it happened there, maybe it would carry over to the MAC as well.

Here are a couple of links.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...y-freshmen

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...idering-it

Won't happen.

In these days of one-and-done, no fresh would really hurt recruiting. I could see lawsuits against the NBA for not allowing players to be drafted from HS (that should happen anyway) and the NCAA having teams breakaway. Can you imagine Ky with starters that stay more than a year?

Of course you would have to increase the # of scholarships. That way bigger programs could tie up more talent. We've been down this road before. It's BS.

(02-19-2015 10:52 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  In these days of one-and-done, no fresh would really hurt recruiting. I could see lawsuits against the NBA for not allowing players to be drafted from HS (that should happen anyway) and the NCAA having teams breakaway. Can you imagine Ky with starters that stay more than a year?

If the best players coming out of high school couldn't play in the NBA or the NCAA, it would open a new market for the D-League or foreign professional leagues. The NCAA would be royally screwed. The NCAA relies a lot on March Madness money. The TV contracts and sponsorships from March Madness pretty much fund the NCAA tournaments in the other sports at all three levels of the NCAA. If you're putting out an inferior product and everybody knows you're putting out an inferior product, the value of your product is going to go down.

Big Ten office has released a statement about looking into freshmen ineligibility.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...r-freshmen

Nothing anyone could say to me. No amount of explanations could convince me that this is for the benefit of the student. It's a power grab and should not be aloud. Just one more way for the p5 schools to make more money off the use of their athletes

The Big Ten office responds to criticism of the freshmen ineligibility idea it floated earlier this year.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...e-defended

Quote:“As a possible source of funding for these increased scholarship costs, money could be provided by off-the-top allocations from television revenue from both the NCAA men's basketball tournament and College Football Playoff,” the Big Ten says. “This approach would allow money generated by institutions of high market value and competitive success to be distributed across all of Division I for investment in new scholarship opportunities.”

I have a "reform idea." How about taking ALL of the television revenue for the ENTIRE SEASON and distribute it equally across all of Division I and let the "market value" and "competitive success" fall where it may?