Something the NCAA didn't consider when adding the 5th COVID year. 1) What about players from Ivies or other schools that didn't play in 2020-21. They don't get a 5th year. Just unlucky? 2) What about a player whose team DID play but missed the 2020-21 season due to injury?

From a player standpoint (current players) the issue with the 5th year is that not everyone gets it. Essentially, the NCAA considers the 2020-21 season as having not existed. Which, it did. Clearly. They awarded a national championship.

But I do feel for those players who won't get it because a) their team chose not to play or b) they were hurt and can't redshirt that year because the NCAA considers it having not happened. Not their fault. Also feel for the 01s, 02s, 03s who have had recruiting impacted.

Seyfert missed the entire 2020-21 season due to an injury, but he can't obtain a medical redshirt for that year under the guidelines the NCAA used to grant a fifth year of eligibility. Essentially, players don't get a 5th year. They just don't count 2020-21.

That's where it feels like Seyfert slipped through the cracks. Had he missed any of his other seasons, he would have been able to obtain a medical redshirt. But because it was 2020-21, he can't. Something about that doesn't feel right to me.

Mike McMahon Same exact situation with me. I completely missed the 2020-2021 season due to having back surgery. My team played 25+ games while I played zero. No additional year given to me, while my teammates got an extra year. Doesn’t feel right at all, however, the NCAA does not care.

Taking away a kids final year cause he played x amount of games? What are we talking about. Kids given his heart and soul to MC. He deserves that last year

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Good for Theodore for winning his waiver. This is also the exact point I was making earlier this summer re: Jordan Seyfert, whose waiver was denied by the NCAA . It’s the same situation, but Seyfert got hurt in the wrong season, I guess? That’s the only difference.

That will just never make sense to me. There could be others. As far as I know, there are only two hockey players affected by this. Merrimack men’s player Jordan Seyfert and St. Cloud women’s player Courtney Hall. They should both have had their waivers approved by the NCAA.

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