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Docs: NCAA considering applying football redshirt rule to athletes in all sports

The NCAA is considering more historic changes to its amateurism rules.
Member schools plan to seriously consider granting athletes in all sports, not just football, the ability to participate in up to a certain percentage of games in a fifth season and still use their redshirt; permit athletes to earn prize money before they enroll in college; and eliminate the National Letter of Intent. The potential changes are part of what is expected to be a year-long comprehensive review of NCAA athlete-eligibility rules to reflect and operationalize the House settlement terms, according to documents obtained by Yahoo Sports. The documents will be reviewed this coming week during a video call of the NCAA Division I Council.
Recommendations and approval of the athlete-eligibility rules are expected to occur on a rolling basis and be presented to the DI Council for consideration at regular quarterly meetings through October 2025. However, a new signing model with the elimination of the National Letter of Intent could be approved as soon as October, according to documents distributed to administrators.
While expected given the arrival of athlete revenue sharing next year, the changes under consideration are historic and significant in nature — the latest steps in college sports’ evolution away from the amateurism model that has cost it billions in legal losses.
In one of the more notable potential changes, athletes in all sports could participate in up to a certain amount of contests during a sports season while still using their redshirt. Such a policy is only currently permitted in football and wrestling. In football, for instance, a player can play in up to four regular-season games and still use his redshirt season (the NCAA recently updated this rule to exempt all postseason competition from the four-game policy).
Such a rule has not existed for sports like basketball, baseball and all others aside from wrestling. If the policy is changed, sport-specific NCAA committees will be tasked with determining how many contests a player in each sport can participate in before a year of eligibility is exhausted. In the NCAA documents, an example is offered of 30%, a similar figure used in football.
Other notable changes include what documents describe as a “new signing model” with the elimination of the National Letter of Intent. The “core benefits” of the National Letter of Intent will be incorporated into the institution’s athletics financial aid and scholarship agreements, according to the document. Similar recruiting rules tied to the National Letter of Intent will continue with the signing of school aid agreements. … more at … https://sports.yahoo.com/docs-ncaa-considering-applying-football-redshirt-rule-to-athletes-in-all-sports-154903963.html

September 24, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , | Leave a comment

New Faces in the ACC for 2024-25

Another season ushers in another wave of new ACC wrestlers and coaches. We’ve already seen breakdowns of the recruiting classes, let’s take a look at the new coaching hires and transfers that join the ACC this fall. 

Duke
Erkin Tadzhimetov joins the coaching staff in Durham after a long tenure at his alma mater Utah Valley. He will work with the lightweights, marking a big change in the staffing in the Lanham era. Coach Lanham has had an upper-weight heavy coaching staff over the past decade and the addition of a lightweight coach could pay dividends for the Blue Devils. 
Tyler O’Boyle (285) Franklin and Marshall
Spencer Von Savoye (141/149) California Baptist

North Carolina
Vincenzo Joseph will join the Tar Heels staff in the role of Recruiting Coordinator. The two-time NCAA Champion for the Nittany Lions will be reuniting with Coach Koll having served on staff under him at Stanford. For the new position, Joseph will “assist the program in team travel, on-campus recruiting, match day planning, and operations, donor relations, and all program-related events”. In his short time in the college coaching ranks, Joseph has shown that he can be a valuable asset to the Tar Heel staff. 
Nolan Neves (285) – Columbia
Ethan Oakley (133) – Appalachian State – SOCON Champ 2x NCAA Qualifier
Josh Ogunsanya (174) – North Carolina? – EIWA Runner-Up 2x NCAA Qualifier

North Carolina State
Zack Esposito steps into the Associate Head Coach position after the departure of Adam Hall to Utah Valley. Espo brings a wealth of experience on the folkstyle and freestyle side. He was the RTC coach at Oklahoma State prior to taking the Associate Head Coach role, where he served for seven years. Most recently he was in Colorado Springs as the Freestyle Developmental and Resident Coach for USA Wrestling. 

Pittsburgh
Lou Rosselli joins the Panthers, adding another experienced and successful coach to the staff. … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/college/acc/new-faces-in-the-acc-for-2024-25-r99551/

September 24, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment

USA Wrestling awards its popular Junior National Duals to Milwaukee, Wis. from 2025-2028

USA Wrestling, the national governing body for wrestling in the United States, has awarded one of its most popular age-group events, the Junior National Dual Meet Championships, to Milwaukee, Wis. for the next four years (2025-28).
The event is scheduled to be held at the Baird Center in Milwaukee. The local organizing committee is the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation, USA Wrestling’s state association in Wisconsin. The event is supported by Sports Milwaukee.
Known as the Junior National Duals, the event features boys teams from USA Wrestling state associations competing in dual meet competition in freestyle and Greco-Roman
Wisconsin becomes just the third state to host the Junior National Duals, which were created in 1991 and held in Wheaton, Ill. The state of Illinois has hosted five times. Oklahoma first hosted the event in Lawton, Okla. in 1994, and conducted the event 28 times.
Milwaukee becomes the ninth city to host the event, which featured five cities in Oklahoma (Lawton, Oklahoma City, Edmond, Enid, Tulsa) and three cities in Illinois (Wheaton, Park Forest, Edwardsville).
The Junior National Duals for girls, which was created in 2005 in Fargo, N.D., was held alongside the boys in Tulsa from 2018-2023, but will not be included alongside the boys in Milwaukee. The Junior National Duals for girls will move and be held alongside the 16U and 14U National Duals for girls in Indiana in 2025. … more at … https://www.themat.com/news/2024/august/30/usa-wrestling-awards-its-popular-junior-national-duals-to-milwaukee-wis-from-2025-2028

September 24, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment