November 21, 2024
by Mike McMahon/ (@mikemcmahon)
Amidst all of the changes at the NCAA level, Brad Elliott Schlossman of The Grand Forks Herald spoke with CCHA commissioner Don Lucia and NCHC commissioner Heather Weems about hockey’s deferred enrollment rule.
In the 1980s, players would leave their junior team during playoffs if they hit their 21st birthday. The NCAA rule was that you’d lose a year of eligibility if you competed after turning 21. In the late ’90s, the workaround was that players had to enroll in college during the winter semester and “transfer” to an NCAA school the following year.
The college hockey commissioners’ concern is that the NCAA has been identifying outliers in the rules across all sports (i.e….
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