geritol wrote:
So Mantz, who graduated high school quite a bit older than the average senior then took two years off for a "religious" mission, then has a redshirt year and a medical redshirt year and now gets an extra year for the trump virus. Dude is essentially a 24 year old sophomore. He won't finish byu til he is out of high school (where he was already way old) for NINE years. This is ridiculous - NOBODY should get eight years of eligibility, PERIOD.
The day you turn 18, whether you have graduated high school or not, your eligibility should start tolling. You get 5 years to finish college eligibility with 4 years of competition. This allows for one redshirt year of medical or transfer or whatever. PERIOD.
Why don't these byuers do their little "missions" after they have finished their eligibility? They use the excuse that they don't want to do it after college because they want to get on with their lives. What a crock of S. They certainly aren't worried about getting on with their lives when they are hanging around byu for 10 years. At the very least, have the athletes do their little missions after they are done with competition. What would be the harm in that?
Also this nonsense about him being a serious engineering student is bull. First of all, byu engineering is a joke. Second, why is he taking six years to complete a very easy four year program?
You byu apologists can come up with all sorts of little excuses, but the fact is that EVERYBODY knows that the extra two years, plus the extra redshirt year plus the extra medical redshirt year is a tremendous and tremendously unfair advantage. The flimsy excuse about "everybody else" could do it too is laughable. Real students at real colleges really want to get on with their lives, and aren't gullible enough to be brainwashed into serving the cult.