Last week, we wrote about the recommendations made by the NCAA D1 Council around 2020 Fall student-athletes and their eligibility. NCAA Board of Directors would have to approve any of those recommendations before they took effect, and to little surprise, they voted last Friday.
You can read the full press release on the vote here. In true NCAA fashion, what they leaked out sounded fantastic, but what they implemented had far more strings attached in order to maintain current status quo.
- The blanket waiver only applies to student athletes who exhausted eligibility in 2020-21.