{"id":612592,"date":"2026-04-29T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612592\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:35:08","slug":"shane-beamer-reveals-how-potential-ncaa-5-for-5-eligibility-rule-can-impact-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612592\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Beamer reveals how potential NCAA 5-for-5 eligibility rule can impact college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors recommended to advance<\/a> a 5-for-5 eligibility rule proposal. South Carolina<\/a> head coach Shane Beamer<\/a> said that change could have an impact on college football, particularly if it takes effect in time for next year.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0age-based eligibility concept<\/a> would allow athletes to have five years of eligibility beginning the regular academic year after they turn 19 years old or graduate from high school, whichever happens earlier. However, according to Monday\u2019s recommendation, the board does not support grandfathering existing athletes into the plan.<\/p>\n

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Still, while looking at fourth-year players this year, Beamer said changes to eligibility would likely impact recruiting both at the high school level and in the transfer portal<\/a>. He added he\u2019d \u201cwelcome\u201d the opportunity to have players back for another season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as preparing for it, see what happens,\u201d Beamer said in Spartanburg during the Garnet & Black Road Trip<\/a>. \u201cBut you know that when you look at our depth chart more that we have in our staff room, you have guys that you, right now, think don\u2019t have another year but do have another year. There\u2019ll be a lot of strategizing in regards to recruiting, portal needs, how many guys you\u2019re planning on taking in recruiting at certain positions that you\u2019re basing that off of right now. But you know these guys are gone. Now, if these guys maybe have another opportunity to come back, that\u2019s a conversation I would certainly welcome, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shane Beamer: \u2018I think that opens up the door for a lot of things\u2019<\/p>\n

NCAA president Charlie Baker is a supporter of the concept and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey reiterated his stance in favor of a \u201cdefined period of eligibility<\/a>\u201d in light of the proposal. The Division I Cabinet is expected to meet next month.<\/p>\n

Shane Beamer said there are positives with the 5-for-5 proposal and pointed to the NFL Draft<\/a> this past weekend. He cited players who went off the board later than they expected. If those athletes on the fringe get a fifth year, he thinks the NIL<\/a> landscape could lead more prospects to stay in school rather than head to the professional level.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think about the positives of that, and there\u2019s certainly a lot of opportunities for that,\u201d Beamer said. \u201cI think you saw it with the NFL Draft last weekend. Guys that maybe went later than what they thought \u2013 not just at South Carolina, but a lot of places that are saying to themselves, let\u2019s face it. With the money out there nowadays and the opportunity to prolong my college career because a lot of these guys that come back from the NFL tell our players, \u2018Man, don\u2019t leave college too soon. You\u2019ve got it pretty good.\u2019 It\u2019s a business at the next level. So I think that opens up the door for a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors recommended to advance a 5-for-5 eligibility rule proposal. South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,247702,99],"class_list":["post-612592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-shane-beamer-95-blacksburg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}