College coaches write letter urging NCAA to change ‘stringent’ eligibility requirements for JUCO athletes

Sixteen national coaches associations have written the NCAA Division I Board of Governors in support of the National Junior College Athletic Association’s effort to change decades-long eligibility requirements for junior college athletes. 

Calling those eligibility standards “inexplicably more stringent” for junior college athletes transferring to NCAA schools, the NJCAA asked for “immediate change.” The letter was sent to the NCAA on Monday. 

The coaches associations from football (AFCA) as well as men’s and women’s basketball (NABC and WBCA) did not sign the letter and may be working on its own communications with the NCAA. 

Specifically, the NJCAA is questioning why junior college athletes are required to have a higher grade-point average (2.5) than athletes transferring between four-year institutions (2.0). 

In addition, the NJCAA is questioning these “different standards” for JUCO athletes … 

Academic non-qualifiers at a four-year school can regain eligibility after one academic year if they achieve 1.8 GPA over 24 credit hours. A non-qualifying junior college athlete who graduates with a two-year degree must have 48 transferrable credit hours and at least a 2.5 GPA to transfer. Transfers between four-year schools have guaranteed scholarships for the remainder of their five-year eligibility clock. Junior college transfers are not guaranteed scholarships for the length of their NCAA eligibility.Athletes in various sports are allowed a limited number of scrimmages. Think of baseball and softball participating in “fall ball” before the spring season. If junior college athletes participate in more than two scrimmages at the junior-college level before transferring, that counts as a season of competition. 

The NJCAA has basically…

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Author : Dennis Dodd

Publish date : 2025-03-11 15:00:00

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