{"id":71222,"date":"2016-04-06T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=71222"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:17:31","slug":"source-big-ten-pulls-proposal-to-limit-delayed-enrollment-wants-more-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2016\/04\/06\/source-big-ten-pulls-proposal-to-limit-delayed-enrollment-wants-more-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Big Ten pulls proposal to limit delayed enrollment, wants more discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Big Ten proposal to limit the age at which a hockey player can start a four-year collegiate career has been withdrawn, a source said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The proposed legislation<\/a>, which was scheduled to face a vote this week, would have limited a player who started his college hockey career at age 21 to three seasons of eligibility.<\/p>\n The Big Ten pulled the proposal to allow for more discussion in the hockey community, a source said.<\/p>\n The issue caused a divide in college hockey, with a number of schools arguing against the proposal<\/a> and others upset that it wasn’t brought up with the larger coaching body before it was submitted.<\/p>\n The Big Ten argued that delayed enrollment is “rarely a choice made by a student for academic purposes, but instead occurs at the direction of an institution for purely competitive reasons<\/a>,” deputy commissioner Brad Traviolia wrote.<\/p>\n An NCAA legislation page showed that of 16 official comments registered by members last year, 13 were opposed and three others abstained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Big Ten proposal to limit the age at which a hockey player can start a four-year collegiate career has been withdrawn, a source said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n