MBB: State University of New York Athletic Conference

[stlawus]

Going through all the SUNYAC rosters and see that Irwayne Connell is back at Plattsburgh for this season.  This will be his 9th season of college basketball.  Wild.  I think they're all medical redshirts as well as possibly getting a year due to that wonky JUCO ruling.  He played about a third of the season last year and had what I assume was a season ending injury.

According to everything I could find, he played at Thomas Aquinas in 2017-18 and then a JUCO in 2018-19, but wasn't in school at all again until last year.  This looks to be his 4th year of college ball.  He played 9 games last year, which is usually one too many to qualify for a medical exemption, but the JUCO ruling may apply to him if its extended beyond this year.

Yes but as you know once you start playing your clock starts as well so being out of school still counts towards your eligibility.  From what I remember reading last year he had a ton of medical redshirts.  I'm not saying it's even a bad thing, just that even d3 isn't impervious to the eligibility madness now.

That's not true.  You clock only runs if you're enrolled in school.

Where in the manual does it state that?

I'm not really sure, but if you're not enrolled in school, you don't use eligibility.  If you're taking classes and not playing, you use it, but otherwise, the clock pauses.

Edited:  I looked it up.  It's Section 14.2 in the D3 Manual.  You get four total season over 10 semesters of full-time enrollment.

I have never heard of the seasons when you're dis-enrolled after previous seasons of competition not counting towards the eligibility clock.  Unless that is a specific d3 carve out and the clock rule is only d1 specific.