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AVENUE TO OPPORTUNITY
OPTION #2:
Two years of participation & completion of 48 college
transferable hours at a two-year college level with three
years of eligibility at the four-year division one level
For the non-qualifying student/athletes who are not able to meet
the necessary requirements to leave after one
year at a two-year college as described in option one, there
would be a new two-year option. With this option the
student/athlete could participate at the two-year college for
two seasons, complete 48 hours with a 2.5 GPA including
the new NCAA core in four semesters (plus two summers if
needed). He/she could then accept a scholarship to
participate at the division one NCAA level school with three (3)
years of eligibility remaining.
The first year at the two- year college would again not count
against his/her eligibility at the four-year university
but rather would be considered a developmental year just as if
he/she had gone to a prep school after high school.
The student/athlete would retain his/her medical red shirt
option. The student/athlete would still have to complete at
least 9 hours of remediation during his/her first year as
discussed in option one. More remediation could be required in
some situations depending on the two-year college requirements.
The student/athlete again would have to maintain all
NJCAA or governing body rules as well as the institutional
eligibility rules during the two years.
The student/athlete would, however, be able to utilize all
summer sessions and could count twelve (12) hours
each summer (six hours per summer session) for a total of
twenty-four (24) hours in two summers. This rule change
versus the current rule allowing only nine (9) transferable
hours per summer or eighteen (18) total hours for two
summers would allow for more flexibility and would give the
student/athlete an opportunity to retake a particular classhe/she
might fail or do poorly in the first time. This would be especially
important with the new 2.5 GPA requirements
or any additional remediation hours needed. The student/athlete
would transfer into the four-year institution at the 20%
graduation level with respect to APR.
EXPLANATION FOR THE REVISIONS TO OPTION #2 FROM ORIGINAL MODEL
FOR NON-QUALIFYING
TWO-YEAR TRANSFERS TO FOUR-YEAR DIVISION ONE UNIVERSITIES
REQUIRING GRADUATION
The new proposal for Option #2 precludes student/athletes from
having to graduate from the two-year
institution in order to move on and accept an athletic
scholarship at a four-year college or university after two
years.
With the increase in qualifying GPA averages included in the new
rules that have been adopted by the NCAA for two-
year transfers requiring a 2.5 GPA from the previous 2.0 GPA,
combined with new core requirements, many two-year
and four-year college coaches and administrators believe it is
going to be very difficult for most non-qualifying two-year
college student/athletes to successfully complete the
requirements and graduate in two years.
Two-year college officials lobbied for an increase from 2.0 GPA
to 2.25 GPA, to correspond with the new (2.25)
GPA academic requirements for sophomore qualifiers who started
at four-year institutions. This academic inequity has
angered many two-year college faculty members and
administrators. However, the 2.5 rule did pass, and based on
the
new academic requirements the NCAA has adopted, the general
consensus from two-year college officials is that the
NCAA should consider going back to their original transfer
rules, which required only forty-eight (48) hours of
transferable hours for a two-year college student/athlete to
transfer to four-year NCAA institution. Here are some of the
reasons suggested:
1. Most four-year colleges and universities accept only
forty-eight (48) transferable hours of the sixty (60) or morehours
required to graduate and receive an AA degree from a two-year
college.
2. With the increased academic scores required, the two-year
college student/athlete needs to focus moreintently on a more
limited but specific academic load, especially when coupled with
the new core curriculumrequirements and the mandatory developmental
remediation classes he/she needs.
3. The two-year student/athletes GPA from the two-year college
currently does not transfer to a four-yearinstitution and a new GPA
must be established beginning the first semester at the four-year
institution. Since
the student/athlete has already used up most of the 1000 and
2000 level courses in order to get to the sixty
(60) plus hours necessary to graduate and receive an AA degree
from the two-year institution, he/she will have
to establish this new GPA by enrolling in primarily all 3000
level courses during the first semester at the four-
year institution. This is unfair since student/athletes who
qualify and initially enroll in a four-year college can
create their GPA over two years with 1000 and 2000 level courses
and are required to have only a 2.25 GPA
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at the end of two years. This really puts the two-year college
transfer student/athlete at an academic
disadvantage.
4. Many times a two-year college student/athlete simply runs out
of time to complete all the necessary coursework to graduate from
the two-year institutions in two years. As described earlier in
option #1 of the original
proposal, with remediation requirements and the fact that
English 1101 and college math classes are
prerequisites for many other required courses necessary to
graduate, it becomes nearly impossible to finish
sixty (60) hours in four semesters. This is an especially
critical factor since funding for scholarships for summer
school is becoming very limited in the current economy.
5. High school, AAU, and four-year coaches will not recommend
two-year colleges to recruits if the odds ofgraduation are too
low.
6. Classes taken at the four-year colleges can always be
transferred back to the two-year institutions if thestudent/athlete
wants to complete the requirements and receive an AA degree from
the two-year institution.Many times the two-year colleges receive
financial benefits from the states based on student graduation
numbers, and this would help satisfy that goal. Most states
require that students complete only 20% of their
class work at a particular two-year institution for that college
to receive graduation credit for that student. Once
the total hours necessary to finish the AA degree requirements
had been successfully completed at the four-
year institution, those hours could be transferred back to the
two-year college for graduation. This could
become an automatic process with necessary hours being
transferred back from the four-year institution to the
two-year college.
