(06-12-2017 04:00 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 03:50 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  There were colleges and universities allowing people over the age of 40 to play football because they did not used up their eligibility as an athlete. There was one team that had a guy in his 60s on the team.

The NCAA generally doesn't allow it. You essentially have to have never enrolled in college full time, which most people who'd be in that position, will have done at some point. Otherwise you mostly have to go NAIA.

Usually, when it happens in the NCAA, they are minor league baseball players who went pro after HS, who are now trying football or another sport, after baseball didn't work (think Chris Weinke).

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/20/55-yea...the-field/

55 year old runningback made history to hit the field for South Carolina State.

http://theweek.com/articles/481861/61yea...all-player

61 year old for Faulkner University.

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story.../14914065/

39 year old.

https://www.reference.com/sports-active-...1a29adb09#

NCAA does not have an age restriction to play any sport.

http://www1.cbn.com/700club/mike-flynt-p...all-age-59

59 year old playing for Sul Ross State.

I didn't say the NCAA
Had an age limit. I said they have rules that amount to an age restrictions you are point out rate exceptions. None are D1 Schools (well Fbs anyway). Either like I Mentioned. But it does happen at the naia level more often, because of the restrictive nature of the five years to play four rule.

(06-12-2017 04:00 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 03:50 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  There were colleges and universities allowing people over the age of 40 to play football because they did not used up their eligibility as an athlete. There was one team that had a guy in his 60s on the team.

The NCAA generally doesn't allow it. You essentially have to have never enrolled in college full time, which most people who'd be in that position, will have done at some point. Otherwise you mostly have to go NAIA.

Usually, when it happens in the NCAA, they are minor league baseball players who went pro after HS, who are now trying football or another sport, after baseball didn't work (think Chris Weinke).

As was pointed out earlier in the thread different divisions have different eligibility rules. DI (and DII I think, but don't take that as gospel) have the clock that once started you have five years to play four seasons. DIII, which is NCAA, just gives you four years of eligibility without a clock.

But it's not unheard of for older individuals to play DI ball. Tim "Pops" Frisby played at South Carolina. He had served as a Army Ranger in the Gulf War and in Kosovo before walking on as a WR for the Gamecocks as a 39 year old father of six children.

(06-12-2017 08:09 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 04:00 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 03:50 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  There were colleges and universities allowing people over the age of 40 to play football because they did not used up their eligibility as an athlete. There was one team that had a guy in his 60s on the team.

The NCAA generally doesn't allow it. You essentially have to have never enrolled in college full time, which most people who'd be in that position, will have done at some point. Otherwise you mostly have to go NAIA.

Usually, when it happens in the NCAA, they are minor league baseball players who went pro after HS, who are now trying football or another sport, after baseball didn't work (think Chris Weinke).

As was pointed out earlier in the thread different divisions have different eligibility rules. DI (and DII I think, but don't take that as gospel) have the clock that once started you have five years to play four seasons. DIII, which is NCAA, just gives you four years of eligibility without a clock.

But it's not unheard of for older individuals to play DI ball. Tim "Pops" Frisby played at South Carolina. He had served as a Army Ranger in the Gulf War and in Kosovo before walking on as a WR for the Gamecocks as a 39 year old father of six children.

correct if you have never attended college (I believe this includes community college, but not 100% sure) then at the D1-A level and the D1-AA level you have your 5 years to play 4 without regard to age

this is how OkState had Brandon Weeden a few years back that was 28 years old when he started playing for them

I went thru the NCAA clearinghouse my last year in school, because I Was going to walkon Maryland's football team. I couldn't in prior years because my employer paid my tuition, and that would have made me count against the scholarship limit. They didn't have room for me under those terms. But this was fall of 2003, and I was I was several years removed from my first year of college (fall of 97). I had to prove I was never a full time student to be eligible, and had to show that some of my credits from my previous school were actually earned in HS. I got a crash course in the clearinghouse. Once I was approved, I was told I now had five years to play four once I became a full time student, which I was planning to do. But I ended up not walking on as I didn't pass the physical (found out I didn't have the proper curvature in my neck, and needed to go to therapy), and never became a full time student. So in theory, I still have my five years to play four.