> In an interview earlier this season, Doug Woog was lamenting the lack of > healthy players (this was way back when he could at least suit up 18 > skaters - the last few games he has had only 15 or 16). The inverviewer > asked that there must be somebody on campus who can fill out a uniform. > Woog responded that he would love to have Gopher football player Sean > Hoffman (an all-state hockey player from North Dakota) try out for the > team. However, since Hoffman has a football scholarship, his scholarship > would also have to be charged against the hockey team's scholarship limit. > Since all hockey scholarships had already been awarded, Hoffman could not > then play hockey. > > Can somebody please explain why? (And don't say "because Minnesota can > only play Minnesota kids") I don't believe this is true. I don't have my NCAA manual here with me, but multi-sport scholarship athletes have their scholarships go to the highest sport in the following pecking order: 1. football 2. basketball 3. hockey 4. others (it gets more detailed here but we don't care) There's a flowchart in the NCAA manual that shows this. That's why, for example, a *baseball* scholarship player could not join the hockey team. His scholarship would transfer from the baseball team to the hockey team. (This was a tactic used before that loophole was closed.) But I don't see anything preventing a football player from doing so. His scholarship would stay with football. In fact, there's a kid named Brian Owens who plays both football and hockey for Colgate. I don't know if he's a scholarship player or not, though, so perhaps he isn't the perfect example, but the NCAA rulebook is quite clear on this. Dave Hendrickson HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.