What if the NCAA and Junior College Association merged?

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If the NCAA took over the association that runs junior college sports and created rules for ALL schools ( minus NAIA), would that give them a better leg to stand on limiting the number of years student-athletes can play?
 
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Along those lines do you limit the player that attends JUCO at a team that did not offer the sport he / she wants to participate in?

Do you give JUCO players NIL like you the NCAA teams?

Besides them having no control - there are other issues that make them different.
 
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If there is no association between the 2 organizations I don’t see how the NCAA can arbitrarily and unilaterally decide what the rules for eligibility are between the two orgs. People playing in either make agreements for the singular orgs which have no association with each other. It’s like buying eggshell white paint from Lowe’s and then later buying eggshell white from Home Depot and becoming surprised when they are not matched at all.
A juco recruiter can tell you in good faith something way different than an NCAA recruiter can, it’s apples and oranges imo.
What should occur is there should be an agreement between the two organizations as to how based on the agreement they will treat eligibility between the two. Otherwise no agreement juco and NCAA have no effect on each other regarding eligibility imo.
 
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HeavenUniversity said:
If the NCAA took over the association that runs junior college sports and created rules for ALL schools ( minus NAIA), would that give them a better leg to stand on limiting the number of years student-athletes can play?
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I don't see a benefit for the few JUCOs that field teams nor for the NCAA.

More teams for the NCAA to govern when they can't successfully herd the cats they have doesn't seem appealing nor does having more non revenue schools in their roster, as most NCAA schools lose money on sports and I'm sure most JUCOs do also.

On the JUCO side, I'm doubtful they'd look forward to the "Hey, my school is in the JUCO NCAA division, let's sue them for....." that is invited by being anywhere near the NCAA currently.

There's not an upside for either side. The NCAA has WAY bigger problems controlling eligibility than the few JUCO kids who want more years. They're probably going to get sued, and possibly lose, for any eligibility rules as long as the student stays in school.
 
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Sarms58 said:
The NCAA should make the decision to treat JUCO like high school…it shouldn’t count against NCAA eligibiliy…
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They may be forced into that id Chambliss and Aguilar win their cases or even their injunctions. The NCAA may be trying to be defeated in detail in this issue by making every individual litigate it, get an injunction, and play without an actual judge's decision.

The problem with this is that if they piss off enough athletes, someone is going to take it federal, get enough plaintiffs to make it a class action, and then goodbye to another bad NCAA rule with inconsistent application.
 
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