Even though Wisconsin doesn’t have a baseball program, the news today of the school barring a fifth year of eligibility for seniors could be a precursor to more Power 5 schools following in their footsteps. They now join the Ivy League and many Patriot League schools to not allow the spring athletic sports seniors to come back for another year.
And UW won’t be allowing those seniors to pursue another year with their teams in 2021, according to an athletic department statement Thursday that cited “a time of unprecedented uncertainty in college athletics.”
“What we tried to do was encourage our seniors to go ahead and, if you’re going to graduate, graduate and move on with your life,” Alvarez said Wednesday on his monthly radio show on 1310 WIBA and Learfield/IMG College. “We appreciate everything that you’ve done. But move forward. The future is in question, and we can’t promise you anything.”
You can check out the full article from Wisconsin State Journal by clicking here.
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