Monday the Division I council voted to allow schools to provide spring-sport student-athletes an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility.
This ruling goes for all student-athletes that had their spring seasons cut short due to the COVID0-19 pandemic.
The council never has easy decisions to make but this one is likely the most challenging they’ve ever faced.
Looking at it from the outside, most spring sport athletes were robbed of a season due to something out of their control. The easy solution would be to give them all, every student-athlete regardless of class, an extra year of eligibility.