NCAA Lifts Foreign Travel Restriction

[nu2u]

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The NCAA D1 Committee recently eliminated the 1-in-4 foreign travel restrictions previously in place for all sports.

Athletic teams can now take international trips and compete against foreign teams every single year.

Coaches were pushing for the change as an opportunity to build team chemistry quicker given the mass transfers annually since the inception of the portal.

I assume this will become a regular item for Iowa MBB & WBB teams.

 

[twindman]

I am sure the coaches are happy for this. Get some notice in Europe without have to drive all over the continent. Will help recruiting foreigners.

 

[iThinkiWill]

This was at their meeting last month…

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[nu2u]

I am sure the coaches are happy for this. Get some notice in Europe without have to drive all over the continent. Will help recruiting foreigners.

The primary purpose of an international team trip will be team development but, I agree, recruiting should also be taken into consideration. For recruiting purposes, IMO the first trip should be booked to Australia - that country is a youth bb hotbed now. Europe will be flooded with NCAA teams.

 

[Kceasthawk@77]

The primary purpose of an international team trip will be team development but, I agree, recruiting should also be taken into consideration. For recruiting purposes, IMO the first trip should be booked to Australia - that country is a youth bb hotbed now. Europe will be flooded with NCAA teams.

Yep, mens and women's....

 

[iThinkiWill]

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The NCAA's Division I cabinet discussed possible implementation of an age-based eligibility model should it be approved and signaled it would consider voting on it at its meeting next month.

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I think that it is a done deal. Now if only they could limit or restrict multiple transfers and/or raise academic standards for eligibility.

 

[Max Rebo]

Multiple trips to Europe while in college? Man, it’s rough being a college athlete. So glad they are finally getting paid.

 

[OnlyTheObscure]

Maybe the foreign countries are paying into their NIL to entice them over.

 

[Zach Jump]

Maybe the foreign countries are paying into their NIL to entice them over.

I doubt it. Iowa's last trip was well documented and even with Caitlyn the games were lightly attended.

Focus seemed more about team bonding than anything that would be some sort of economic boom for the places they visited.

 

[SimonaMeow]

Not sure that some programs can even afford the trips now that they pay the players...

 

[nu2u]

Not sure that some programs can even afford the trips now that they pay the players...

Not sure they can afford not to make the overseas trip. Recruits will likely notice.

A week in Spain or France or Italy etc. might be a big plus to a prospect that favorably tips the scale for the traveling school over a competitor school staying home .. everything else being near equal …who knows.

 

[citizenHawk1]

Not sure that some programs can even afford the trips now that they pay the players...

It would be a huge expense. Probably not a great one given the budget needed for the roster, (and I personally think it would be really difficult to plan given current roster shakeups. If they ever do it, I'd bet on a few years of advance planning.

 

[Zach Jump]

Not sure that some programs can even afford the trips now that they pay the players...

It would be a huge expense.

The big schools I imagine can come up with the 150,000 to 200,000 it would cost