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I feel you. I actually played at the club level, so I still have full NCAA eligibility technically

Always wondered the same thing ...

I went to an NAIA school, graduated in 3 years and went right into the MBA program and used my 4th year of eligibility. I think the problem you would have is the amount of time out of school. As I recall, its 8 semesters of competition in 10 or 12 total semesters. I would assume the NCAA has comparable time span rules for returning.

I think LHM is right, as soon as you take a class on campus as a freshman I believe you have 10 semesters to complete 8 semesters of competition.

I think it's different at D-I and D-III now. I remember there being some rule change a few years ago when I was in school.

If its NCAA you have to complete your 4 years of eligibility within 5 years. This allows for people to take their red shirt year. You also have to start your 4 years of eligibility by the age of 23 I believe.

So no, if it's an NCAA school, you won't be able to use that remaining year

I'm not sure if you you have to start your eligibility by the time your 23. If you remember Chris Weinke, who played football for Florida State, was 27 or 28 while he was playing. But then again you never know with the NCAA, their rule and regulations are outrageous. I played baseball at a top C-USA school and still have some eligibility so I am interested in this question as well

27-28 is within 5 years of starting though...1 redshirt year, and 4 yrs of playing...it have a year left from red shirting, and cause i didnt use it right away (within the 5 yrs) compliance told me it was gone..

I stand corrected on the starting age cause Weinke did start at 26...but you do have to use ur elig in 5 yrs

You may want to look further into that. Maybe it's just an exception to the rule, but athletes at BYU take two years away and are able to return and use their eligibility.

Graduate Student Eligibility A student-athlete who is enrolled in a graduate or professional school of the college or university which he or she previously attended as an undergraduate student may participate in intercollegiate athletics, provided he or she has eligibility remaining and is within five calendar years of initial full-time collegiate enrollment for Division I and within the first 10 full-time semesters of collegiate enrollment for Divisions II and III.

Also, a student-athlete who has eligibility remaining and is within the specified 10-semester period may participate while enrolled in a graduate or professional school at a Division II college or university other than the institution at which he or she completed an undergraduate degree.

Finally, a student-athlete who has eligibility remaining and is within the specified five-year period may participate while enrolled in a graduate or professional school at a Division I college or university other than the institution at which he or she completed an undergraduate degree, provided he or she meets the criteria of the one-time transfer exception to the general transfer residence requirement. That exception is as follows:

•The student-athlete must be seeking to participate in a sport other than baseball, football, basketball and men's ice hockey, except that a student-athlete who seeks to participate in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision may use this exception only if transferring from a Football Bowl Subdivision program.

•The student-athlete may not have transferred previously from another four-year institution unless he or she transferred previously and received an exception to the transfer residence requirement because his or her institution either discontinued the sport or did not sponsor the sport in which the student-athlete is a participant.

•The student must have been in good academic standing and eligible to compete had he or she decided to remain at the previous institution.

•The student-athlete's previous institution must certify in writing that it has no objection to the student-athlete being granted an exception to the transfer residence requirement. NOTE: This exception does not apply to a student-athlete who attends a Division III institution for graduate school, unless the student-athlete is attending the same institution at which he or she was an undergraduate.

NOTE: If the student-athlete transfers to the certifying institution from a Division III member institution and meets the above-mentioned conditions, he or she may be eligible to compete but may not receive athletically related financial aid during that year.

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