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Has anybody noticed this new provision that requires freshman who score less than 2.3 gpa in high school are required to take an academic redshirt year as a freshman? Not sure when it will apply. NCAA research indicates it will sideline 35% of football recruits and 43% of basketball recruits based on last years score. Also contains interesting research on why schools should not admit recruits scoring below an 820 SAT which is the minimum I've said is very fair and reasonable for SMU to apply.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/players/ncaa ... says/29369

Prop 48.

Academic Redshirt for high school recruits does not go into effect until 2015.

It's a great rule.

I like that rule. It seems to me that way more freshman bb players play as true freshman so I think it will have a way bigger impact on BB than FB

Major impact on basketball?

What about the kid out of high school that is so good, he only plans to spend one year in college before going to the NBA? Now he has to take an academic redshirt that one year so he does not play. Would a university now waste a scholarship? I think not. So the low SAT super freshman will not play at a major program, or even attend college.

Might see a lot of HS kids go overseas for a couple of years until they are eligible to play in the NBA.

this would really impact bball. You mean they might actually expect student athletes to be students? What kind of message would this send?

The basic issue revolves around the roll of college vs. professional sports. Most would agree that a college is an academic institution preparing virtually all students for a job other than professional sports. Baseball has minor leagues for those kids who do not want to attend college and is complemented by high quality college baseball programs where kids can play their odds and do essentially both. However, in my opinion it is not he role of colleges to prepare kids as a professional athletes. Only a very small number of college athletes become professionals and that is merely a by-product of college sports and not a main objective. Problem in basketball and football is that the NFL and NBA do not have minor leagues ( why would they spend all the $$$ when the colleges will pay all the bills and sort out the talent and exploit the kids for PR, TV revenues in support of entire athletic programs. The World Football League was a losing endeavor and produced few pros thereby serving as a lesson to the pros of why they should not spend the $$$ to have minor leagues) resulting in the colleges becoming quasi-minor leagues. Maybe the good news is that kids will need to start getting more serious about school work and think more serioulsy about what college really means. In basketball they can still go to foreign teams on a limited basis leaving the NFL as the only league with out some form of minor league option. Good news for the NFL is that college football is so popular and revenue producing that they will never need a minor league system. Question remains whether or not it is the responsibility of colleges to accept academically unqualified students for the sole purpose of exploiting them as athletes when virtually all of them would probably not qualify as professional athletes.

there has never been any doubt in my mind that the NFL and NBA could do just want MLB does and could change the face of college football and bball...but why would they make that investment when college/university presidents are more than happy to play that role...and reap the financial benefits