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Is A Ncaa Football Player Only Supposed To Play During His Bacherlor Degree Years?
Author: NBA Reporter4 Dec
Or are some actually crazy enough to play while getting their masters?
Also, assume that a fooball player spends 2 years on a university where he doesn’t play football – could he, after those 2 years, transfer over to a 4 year University where he wants to play football and actually start?
What about spending 2 years at a University where he doesn’t play and 1 year at a small college where he plays? If he transfers to a 4 year University for his last year, could he still play if he is good enough? (If his stats were fairly decent from the small college?)
Thank you very much 
5 Responses for "Is A Ncaa Football Player Only Supposed To Play During His Bacherlor Degree Years?"
Actually, a player has up to 6 years to complete their eligibility. He can have a regular redshirt one year, and a medical redshirt another year.
Anyway, the rules allow a player to be eligible during graduate school. It is not totally uncommon for a player who is in their 5th year to be in graduate school, or for an intelligent player to graduate early and be in graduate school their 4th year. This is beneficial for NFL bound players because students are required to have less credit hours to remain full time in graduate school, so they can spend more time focusing on football. This is exactly what Peyton Manning did when he was at Tennessee.
I played football at UCLA for 3 years in the early 80s, two of the years were played while I was getting my Masters. There were several other players who were graduate students.
During Nebraska’s championship season in 1997, one of their starting defensive linemen was a Ph.D student in microbiology.
Sam Keller, the QB at Nebraska answers your 2nd question. He was a student at Arizona State in 2005, and transferred to Nebraska. He has completed 2 years of University, but only 1 year of football at ASU. He still has three years of NCAA eligibility remaining.
NCAA rules state that a player has a total of four years of eligibility (5 if “redshirted”). It is entirely possible to be a graduate student and play a sport provided eligibility remains.
im not really sure, you know there is a linebacker…i cant not remember what team he was playing for to save my life, and he was 26 yrs old…so im guessing as long as you are enrolled you can play
a students sports eligibility starts as soon as he enrolls as a freshman at any college. So, if he spends 2 years at a university where he doesn’t play and transfers to a 4 year university where he starts to play, he has 2 years of eligibility left. The same thing applies to your 2nd scenario, where a man spends a total of three years at 2 different schools before transferring to a third and playing football. In that case he has 1 year left in which he could play. You cant start playing collegiate sports while getting your master’s because you have used all of your eligibility up when were going for your bachelor’s degree.
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