Miami LB to play 8th year

[cthorne22]

Miami LB Mohamed Toure plans to return for rare eighth year of eligibility in 2026

Toure began his college career at Rutgers in 2019

www.cbssports.com

At this point college football should come up with a retirement plan

 

[Jack Bourbon]

It really is no different than the nba g league, or even nba itself. CFB is simply a pro league like it or not.

It would be kinda funny for a guy, just to to stay enrolled in classes to be eligible, to play until he’s 40 and rack up degrees across the board - econ, philosophy, chemistry, business admin, art history, physics, etc, and becoming a modern day leonardo da vinci but in cleats and pads and never practicing the disciplines professionally

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

How does the NCAA justify an 8th year??

TJ Finley is taking notes...

 

[dtgreg]

Miami LB Mohamed Toure plans to return for rare eighth year of eligibility in 2026

Toure began his college career at Rutgers in 2019

www.cbssports.com

At this point college football should come up with a retirement plan

See, this is the REAL reason the schools don't want them to become employees. They'll become vested in the State Retirement System.

 

[dtgreg]

How does the NCAA justify an 8th year??

Not Alabama, silly.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

So now Diego will be able to play two more years?

 

[CB4]

So basically he is getting eight years to play five years. So what is he? Twenty five or twenty six years old?
(Edit: Toure just turned 24 years old this month. So he will be almost 25 years old by the time the 2026 season ends).

Nah ain’t nothing wrong with this….

 

[PA Tide Fan]

Soon these guys will be past their prime by the time they leave college.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

How does the NCAA justify an 8th year?? …

The article is short and makes it pretty clear: 2019 redshirt, 2020 COVID year, and two medical redshirts means he’s only played three seasons and has one remaining. Not saying I agree with it, but that’s the reasoning…

 

[Krymsonman]

Maybe they should start with limiting medical redshirts to just one. If you need more than one, you're too brittle for college football.

 

[arthurdawg]

Maybe they should start with limiting medical redshirts to just one. If you need more than one, you're too brittle for college football.

Honestly... with redshirts now going to playing in 9 games a year... Just dispense with all the crap and let everyone have 5 years of eligibility. No redshirts and no medical make ups.

Nice and clean.

 

[CB4]

Maybe they should start with limiting medical redshirts to just one. If you need more than one, you're too brittle for college football.

Generally speaking that was the way it was. You were not getting a second medical redshirt year.
In this case, he is getting the benefit of a redshirt year, a Covid year, and TWO medical redshirt years. Sorry but that is ridiculous.

 

[KrAzY3]

Honestly... with redshirts now going to playing in 9 games a year... Just dispense with all the crap and let everyone have 5 years of eligibility. No redshirts and no medical make ups.

Nice and clean.

At this point one would argue the NCAA is breaking the system on purpose.

It's not that hard, stop giving out waivers, PERIOD.

Stop letting people who signed contracts to play for pro teams play in the NCAA.

It's not that complicated, but as soon as they start picking and choosing who gets to play longer, or what pro player gets to play, the entire structure and order starts to fall apart.

 

[AlistarWills]

Generally speaking that was the way it was. You were not getting a second medical redshirt year.
In this case, he is getting the benefit of a redshirt year, a Covid year, and TWO medical redshirt years. Sorry but that is ridiculous.

And wasn’t a medical redshirt the same as a developmental freshman year redshirt?

 

[CB4]

And wasn’t a medical redshirt the same as a developmental freshman year redshirt?

I could be wrong but I think if you had used up all four years of eligibility (without a redshirt year) but had an injury that significantly impacted your participation/playing time in one of those years, you could apply for a medical redshirt. But even with that back years ago, it wasn’t an almost automatic thing like it is today.

 

[Rocky Mtn Bob]

What a perfect storm of circumstances for Toure. But ... wouldn't he be drafted pretty high in the NFL after the year he just completed?

 

[Tidewater]

Miami LB Mohamed Toure plans to return for rare eighth year of eligibility in 2026

Toure began his college career at Rutgers in 2019

www.cbssports.com

At this point college football should come up with a retirement plan

I recall when they used to not let freshmen play at all and had varsity and junior varsity teams. The NFL has a rule that you must be three years out of high school to enter the draft.
Both of these are about player safety as huge, fast men should not be playing a collision sport like football against boys. If a 17 year old, runs into a 25 year old senior, the younger might get seriously injured.

 

[spidermayin]

Reminds me of the movie Van Wilder.

 

[Jack Bourbon]

Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield is another

 

[dtgreg]

I recall when they used to not let freshmen play at all and had varsity and junior varsity teams. The NFL has a rule that you must be three years out of high school to enter the draft.
Both of these are about player safety as huge, fast men should not be playing a collision sport like football against boys. If a 17 year old, runs into a 25 year old senior, the younger might get seriously injured.

I love the story of Wes Neighbors in the movie "The Bear". Wes tried to tell the director and the stuntman to not ask him to go full speed.