Originally Posted by Anonymous
You must have your head in the sand. This has nothing to do with HS. The University of Wisconsin has plenty of money to provide an extra year for spring athletes, but chose not to because it doesn't make financial sense to do so in this economic climate.

"He said the athletic department is modeling three budgets for next season: one with competition returning in full; one with no fall sports, including football; and one with no fall or winter sports."

"One of the arguments against having senior athletes return for another season, Alvarez said, was other students won’t get a chance to finish a semester of studying abroad or be able to take part in a final musical performance that was canceled. 'Anybody that went through that, it just ended,/ he said. 'And so, I think our faculty reps thought that it shouldn’t be one group be cherry-picked to get credit and be able to come back to pick up that year of eligibility.'"



The ACC is also considering doing the same thing.


https://www.thestridereport.com/post/breaking-wisconsin-bars-seniors-from-returning-acc-may-follow




You and the author of that article are misinformed at best . Again with your logic they should choose to eliminate all future scholarships in “this economic climate “. In actuality the study abroad kid will still be able to do so in the future and the musical performer can go to grad school and still perform in a musical while the athlete would not have that option . Not sure why you do not get the clock in terms of eligibility ends for athletes it does not for these other students you are speaking about .