Through a combination of bonus COVID years and the wild west transfer portal landscape, eligibility in college sports has gotten out of hand.
Whether it’s a Miami tight end playing nine years of college ball or Tennessee’s Zakai Zeigler and Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia filing lawsuits in a desperate bid for another year, the days of athletes playing four years at one school and then hanging it up are all but over. They’ll either transfer three times or take things to court for a seventh year.
Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari, the godfather of the one-and-done prospect, said last year that something’s gotta change to stop 26-year-olds from being on the same court as a kid who took the ACT six months ago.