How The U.S President's College Sports Executive Can Shift College Hockey

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On Friday, U.S President Donald Trump signed an executive order named “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports”, as the USA aims to fix the current state of college sports.

It will affect NCAA hockey if it goes through, and here’s how:

To begin with, there will only be a rule implemented called the “one-time transfer”. 

If anything, this is more of an issue in the more popular NCAA sports, like football and basketball, as the two sports have caused some outbursts about a lack of loyalty and more of a commitment to money in recent years.

Hockey has seen an increase in portal hunting, where smaller schools lose star players to bigger schools in heavier conferences. 

Is there a loyalty problem in college hockey? Sure, but not to as bad an extent as there is elsewhere. Nonetheless, it can take care of any future problems of the sort, mostly blinding the sort from college hockey.

Besides that, there will be a “5 for 5” eligibility rule, where you won’t see 6th-year seniors and beyond. This just looks to end the COVID stretch, where there were seniors way past their deadline.

This is also another issue that doesn’t exactly focus on college hockey, but it could have some correlation.

With some junior players coming into college late, you can tend to have 21-year-old freshmen if they stayed at said junior league until they aged out.

But this window will be enforced as soon as someone starts attending a university, so it might disallow the chances of enrolling in school while playing juniors without harming the time period you can play hockey in college.

There are a lot of “what ifs” and more, as nothing is official. But it does make you wonder about where the future of college hockey lies, and if it is for the better.

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