The NCAA Division I Males’s Golf Committee has clarified some scheduling guidelines forward of the brand new season, together with updating the submission deadline and eradicating some grey space in the case of including and dropping occasions.
Coaches have been knowledgeable a number of days in the past that the schedule submission deadline for the 2024-25 season can be Sept. 1, with submissions needing to be made through the Scoreboard coaches’ portal as soon as it opens on Aug. 5. Modifications to schedules after the deadline can be topic to approval by the committee.
Transferring ahead, groups will be capable of withdraw from tournaments solely as a consequence of causes past the workforce’s management, together with full cancellations of occasions as a consequence of exterior forces like climate or adjustments to event dates outdoors of what was initially scheduled. Any withdrawals that don’t fall beneath these circumstances deemed justified by the committee, together with the adjusting of event rounds or codecs inside the scheduled dates of competitors, will end in that workforce incurring losses to every workforce within the discipline.
As for including tournaments, groups can solely achieve this if a complete occasion is cancelled as a consequence of climate. In that case, the added event should provide comparable head-to-head alternatives and never put the workforce over its most variety of competitors days (24).
If a workforce provides a event not authorised by the committee, it could nonetheless achieve this; the event will simply be handled as an exhibition for that workforce and never rely towards the workforce’s win-loss-tie document or nationwide rating. This is applicable to tournaments added after a workforce receives additional days as a consequence of lacking the lower in a regular-season occasion or a partial event cancellation.
In previous seasons, groups on the .500 rule bubble have used unused days or days from full and partial cancellations so as to add occasions the place they will obtain a bunch of wins and stay eligible for the postseason. The memo didn’t particularly deal with groups protecting an additional day or two initially of the season simply in case it wanted so as to add later, although it seems that won’t be allowed, both.
The committee added that these rule updates is not going to affect the power so as to add occasions supposed to offer further alternatives for student-athletes to take part as people in the course of the tutorial yr.
