“It’s devastating there’s that many players in my position.” Cancelling the 2020 national football championship game because of COVID-19, and U Sports not altering an age eligibility rule, has accelerated the swan song of roughly 300 football players.
U Sports has said student-athletes whose championships are cancelled in 2020-21 because of the pandemic will not lose a year of eligibility.
University of Calgary quarterback Josiah Joseph of the defending Vanier Cup champion Dinos is among those caught in a rule designed to limit the age of players in Canadian university football to under 25.Approximately 300 players out of 2,335 will be similarly impacted in 2021, according to U Sports.“All they would have to do is amend the rule and push it to maybe January first due to extreme circumstances,” he told The Canadian Press.
“Our legal advice that we received was very firm. If we believe the age cap should be 25 for the health and safety of athletes then we should not under any circumstances alter that.Joseph argues there is no physical or experience difference between a player who turns 25 in March and one who turns 25 in October.
U Sport cancelling the 2020 Vanier Cup and the two bowl games — Hardy and Mitchell — that serve as semifinals doesn’t stop conferences from playing football in the fall.
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