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Michael Babich

Michael Babich

Aug 5, 2026

2:09
Can you tell me a little bit more about that and how that changes things for college athletes and for youth athletes about the college recruiting process?
2:17
Yeah, of course.
2:18
So on June 23rd, I was actually in the midst of, uh, recording a webinar of ours at Sports Recruits.
2:24
We were actually speaking to someone named Ross Dellinger, who's the senior college football reporter for Yahoo Sports, and he also does a lot of work on a lot of the litigation and rule changes that we've seen in NCAA athletics, specifically at the Division I level over the last few years.
2:39
And he actually had to briefly leave the webinar that we were doing to actually break this news, which is, uh, the Division I cabinet unanims- unanimously voted to adopt the age-based eligibility model.
2:50
And in the most simplest terms, basically what that means is for many years at the Division I level, college athletes had five-year win- had a five-year window to basically utilize four years of college eligibility.
3:03
What is changing under this rule is now people are going to have a five-year window consecutively to use five seasons in total.

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18:23
Where does this idea kind of stem from, and why is it a problem in your eyes?

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