Academic Eligibility
Posted: June 18th, 2009, 2:54 pm
For those of you that have been paying attention to the FSU/NCAA pissing match...
Does anyone know EXACTLY when an athlete becomes academically ineligible? I just read the NCAA's response to FSU and I kept going back to when does one actually become ineligible. Is it the moment you cheat? Is it the moment you get caught? I ALWAYS thought that you were only academically ineligible once your grades fell below the threshold of failing as decided by the school and/or NCAA guidelines. To me that means that if you get caught cheating, you fail that test and/or class, whatever the academic guidelines say. As long as your grades and/or overall gpa do not drop below a certain threshold (gpa of 2.0?) you are fine to compete. Am I correct?
Im not arguing if the penalties were excessive or not, I want to know if the players involvolved were actually ineligible
Can anyone shed some real light on this question?
Does anyone know EXACTLY when an athlete becomes academically ineligible? I just read the NCAA's response to FSU and I kept going back to when does one actually become ineligible. Is it the moment you cheat? Is it the moment you get caught? I ALWAYS thought that you were only academically ineligible once your grades fell below the threshold of failing as decided by the school and/or NCAA guidelines. To me that means that if you get caught cheating, you fail that test and/or class, whatever the academic guidelines say. As long as your grades and/or overall gpa do not drop below a certain threshold (gpa of 2.0?) you are fine to compete. Am I correct?
Im not arguing if the penalties were excessive or not, I want to know if the players involvolved were actually ineligible
Can anyone shed some real light on this question?