Frequent NCAA critic Jay Bilas believes the NCAA got this one right.
The organization will permit Division I spring-sport athletes — such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players — who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to gain an additional year of eligibility.
Winter sport athletes are out of luck.
“It’s certainly reasonable not to grant that simply because more of those sports had come to conclusion or near conclusion,” Bilas said Tuesday on ESPN’s “Get Up!” show. “So you’d be opening up something totally different for a Cassius Winston to come back to Michigan State.
Allowing some spring sport athletes to return bears some financial consequence, though less than for the winter sports. Division I baseball teams, for example, dole out just 11.7 scholarships, which are divvied up among the players.
Not all seniors playing spring sports will be permitted to return at the same scholarship level as 2020. Schools simply have the flexibility to offer them.
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