Column: What happens to Ohio State’s 2021 early enrollees if the season is moved to the spring?
I have no idea what the NCAA will do with 2021 early enrollees in that case, but it’s still fun to think about.
Let’s get this out of the way at the top; I have no idea what’s going to happen with the upcoming college football season, and frankly, neither do you. In fact, I’d venture to guess that at this point the very NCAA, conference, and university officials that will be making the decision as to what’s going to happen with the upcoming college football season don’t even have the foggiest idea as to what is going to happen with the upcoming college football season. At best, all that we have are some educated (or not-so educated) guesses; but you know what, that might be exactly what we need right now anyway.
Since there’s no way to confidently predict what the future holds, you can either view speculating about what’s in store for the college football season as a pointless waste of time, or you can look at it as a welcome, yet frivolous distraction from our world that is otherwise currently crumbling around us. I choose the latter, for both the sake of my mental state and the rest of this column.
So, one thing that I have been thinking a lot about lately is what would happen to the Class of 2021 early enrollees if the college football season gets moved from this fall to next spring; say sometime in February through early June, or something like that?
Ohio State currently has a historically loaded recruiting class that is practically lapping the field when it comes to blue-chip commitments. If we look at what happened with their fifth-rated 2020 class for comparison, this past January (which, believe it or not, was not 22 years ago), 13 new Buckeyes enrolled early and started their OSU careers during the pandemic-shortened winter semester. If a similar number from the 2021 class graduates early, what happens to them when they show up in Columbus in January and the rest of the team is preparing to start a season?
For obvious scholarship-limitation reasons, there’s no way that they would be immediately eligible to play, so do they just chill and work out with Mickey Marotti on their own while acclimating to college life? Doubtful.
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