Though the request to waive the D-I minimum number of required sports was rejected, a few of the requested waivers will be given, for one year.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...r-requests

Quote:The committee voted to grant blanket waivers for all Division I members for one year to allow:

-- Basketball and football student-athletes to participate in currently defined summer athletic activities without being enrolled in summer school.
-- Schools to provide less than the currently legislated minimum financial aid requirements to maintain membership in Division I. This waiver does not provide relief from other financial aid rules, including financial aid commitments to prospective and current student-athletes or regulations related to the cancellation or reduction of financial aid.
-- Reclassifying schools to count as Division I opponents in the first year of the reclassification process, whether or not the school meets Division I scheduling requirements.

Also, a few recruiting rules were waived for a year, as noted in the linked article.

(05-06-2020 04:42 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Though the request to waive the D-I minimum number of required sports was rejected, a few of the requested waivers will be given, for one year.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...r-requests

Quote:The committee voted to grant blanket waivers for all Division I members for one year to allow:

-- Basketball and football student-athletes to participate in currently defined summer athletic activities without being enrolled in summer school.
-- Schools to provide less than the currently legislated minimum financial aid requirements to maintain membership in Division I. This waiver does not provide relief from other financial aid rules, including financial aid commitments to prospective and current student-athletes or regulations related to the cancellation or reduction of financial aid.
-- Reclassifying schools to count as Division I opponents in the first year of the reclassification process, whether or not the school meets Division I scheduling requirements.

Also, a few recruiting rules were waived for a year, as noted in the linked article.

All of those were basically uncontroversial. Of the two controversial proposals - cutting other sports and staying D1 and freezing movement to and from FBS - one was rejected out of hand and the other has not been acted on.

(05-06-2020 04:58 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-06-2020 04:42 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Though the request to waive the D-I minimum number of required sports was rejected, a few of the requested waivers will be given, for one year.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...r-requests

Quote:The committee voted to grant blanket waivers for all Division I members for one year to allow:

-- Basketball and football student-athletes to participate in currently defined summer athletic activities without being enrolled in summer school.
-- Schools to provide less than the currently legislated minimum financial aid requirements to maintain membership in Division I. This waiver does not provide relief from other financial aid rules, including financial aid commitments to prospective and current student-athletes or regulations related to the cancellation or reduction of financial aid.
-- Reclassifying schools to count as Division I opponents in the first year of the reclassification process, whether or not the school meets Division I scheduling requirements.

Also, a few recruiting rules were waived for a year, as noted in the linked article.

All of those were basically uncontroversial. Of the two controversial proposals - cutting other sports and staying D1 and freeing movement to and from FBS - one was rejected out of hand and the other has not been acted on.

IMO, lowering the required minimum number of sports in D-I or FBS should not be a matter of giving everyone a long-term waiver of the rule without thinking much about it.

The process should be that someone offers a specific proposed rule change for a different minimum, then everyone has a chance to weigh in on it, and then there's a vote on that proposal.

Yeah, that's the way an ambit claim works ... you ask for more than you expect to receive since it's even less likely that you'll get it if you don't ask.

(05-06-2020 04:42 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Though the request to waive the D-I minimum number of required sports was rejected, a few of the requested waivers will be given, for one year.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...r-requests

Quote:The committee voted to grant blanket waivers for all Division I members for one year to allow:

-- Basketball and football student-athletes to participate in currently defined summer athletic activities without being enrolled in summer school.
-- Schools to provide less than the currently legislated minimum financial aid requirements to maintain membership in Division I. This waiver does not provide relief from other financial aid rules, including financial aid commitments to prospective and current student-athletes or regulations related to the cancellation or reduction of financial aid.
-- Reclassifying schools to count as Division I opponents in the first year of the reclassification process, whether or not the school meets Division I scheduling requirements.

Also, a few recruiting rules were waived for a year, as noted in the linked article.

As a fan of a Summit member, I like the bolded section. Makes me think the DIII to DI legislation is still likely to happen this summer.

(05-07-2020 10:28 AM)Hammersmith Wrote:  

(05-06-2020 04:42 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Though the request to waive the D-I minimum number of required sports was rejected, a few of the requested waivers will be given, for one year.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med...r-requests

Quote:The committee voted to grant blanket waivers for all Division I members for one year to allow:

-- Basketball and football student-athletes to participate in currently defined summer athletic activities without being enrolled in summer school.
-- Schools to provide less than the currently legislated minimum financial aid requirements to maintain membership in Division I. This waiver does not provide relief from other financial aid rules, including financial aid commitments to prospective and current student-athletes or regulations related to the cancellation or reduction of financial aid.
-- Reclassifying schools to count as Division I opponents in the first year of the reclassification process, whether or not the school meets Division I scheduling requirements.

Also, a few recruiting rules were waived for a year, as noted in the linked article.

As a fan of a Summit member, I like the bolded section. Makes me think the DIII to DI legislation is still likely to happen this summer.

The part you bolded helps the schools in conferences that are bringing in D-I moveups who start transitioning in 2020-21. For example, Big West members will be able to count 2020-21 games vs. UC San Diego as Division I contests.

The Summit will need to ask the NCAA to extend that rule to future years to take advantage of it.