Re: NCAA Clearing House Rules

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Oct 29, 2020, 12:24 PM

You do realize that every single D1 and D2 athlete who plan to attend college on scholarship (full or partial) have to apply to and be cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse, right?

The job of the NCAA Clearinghouse is to ensure that prospective athletes meet the MINIMUM requirements to be eligible to to play an NCAA sport (any sport).

After clearing that hurdle, athletes then have to apply to individual colleges and universities for acceptance to each school.

The NCAA Clearinghouse is in no way a path to get around typical acceptance to a particular school. It simply determines eligibility to play sports.

After getting approved by the Clearinghouse, Clemson then determines if they will admit a recruit in to the school.

If Clemson allows athletes in to school with lower GPA and test scores than your typical student, it is due to what that athlete can offer the university in return (wins, notoriety, reputation). Athletes in every sport are eligible for this exemption, but you are correct in that most schools use it most often with football and basketball players.

I would guess that same would happen if there were a high school senior, who happens to be a best-selling author, who wants to get into Clemson to be an English major has terrible math scores. The school will likely admit that student for what that student can bring to the school that has nothing to do with his or her abilities in math.

The APR score that all athletic programs now get is a deterrent to allowing students into school who aren't able to graduate. It's not foolproof because a school can allow any student to pass classes without merit, but it's trying to get athletics away from being athlete only and not students as well.

I do realize that you are a troll looking to cause a stir, but I wanted everyone to understand what the NCAA Clearinghouse actually is and what it does.

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You're acting as if the lower standards are put into place as a favor to the players, and not because the universities benefit from it greatly.

You're also only looking at it from one side when you mention the standards not being equal. What if the regular students had to be one of the best in the country at playing a particular sport in order to get into school? What if the regular students had to report to some sort of mandatory activity(practice) 4 hours per day after classes, and then spend 12-15 Saturdays taking hits from other huge athletes in order to earn their spot at the university? I'd say that many of those regular students would have difficulty keeping their test scores and grades quite as high if that were the case.

Whether you want to debate if the level of racial issues are as high as they're made out to be or not, I'd say that it's a pretty stupid argument to say that if a college athlete doesn't want to be treated any differently due to the color of their skin that they should also have to have the requirements for getting into college as an athlete changed. It's even dumber when you consider that blacks make up only 57% of college football players.

NCAA Clearing House Rules