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NCAA Eligibility: A Mild Polemic

With baseball season ending - and, more terrifying, football season threatening to start in about a month - this is the official dead period here at Anchor of Gold. As such, this is the season for outre article topics and polemical op-eds.

I'll start with something as interesting as filing your taxes, and as rife for malfeasance and loophole seeking as paying a tax accountant or tax lawyer to file your taxes: NCAA Eligibility Requirements for Rising College Freshmen.

The NCAA's brochure on eligibility starts out with a simple, cut and dry graphic for high school students:

This simple formula will help you meet the 16 core-course requirement:

4x4 = 16

4 English courses (one per year)

+ 4 math courses (one per year)

+ 4 science courses (one per year)

+ 4 social science (and/or additional) courses (one per year)

= 16 NCAA core courses

Easy, right?