Brandon Weeden is 28 years old?

[Upton]

That makes him the oldest football player in Big 12 history. Despite the fact that it was embarrassing to see a man of that age dressed in a college football uniform and standing alongside younger kids, some almost a decade younger, isn't there some kind of rule or age limit as to how old you have to be to play college football?

[trumad]

1. Why should there be?

Age discrimination comes into play.

If the dude is going to college and is good enough to play, who cares how old he is.

Oh---and is 28 the new old?

Hell---isn't Luck 23?

[Upton]

2. No, 28 isn't old..

unless you're playing college football with kids aged for the most part at 18-22...Weeden also played minor league baseball for 5 years..wasn't he being paid, and shouldn't that have rendered him ineligible to play college athletics?

.

[trumad]

3. Jesus dude---you're reaching

for some excuse as to why OK beat Stanford.

So he had a job before he went to college. Gave up the job to attend college, and that renders him ineligible?

What about kids who leave school, go into the military for 3-4 years, get out to attend college, and play football.

You going to make them ineligible as well?

[Upton]

4. Stanford lost last night..

because their FG kicker missed a chip shot. David Shaw also was a little conservative with his play calling there in the last minute, but Stanford's offensive game plan pretty much worked to perfection...almost 600 total yards. Last night convinced me even more that OK State would have been killed by LSU...

I've got nothing against Weeden, I was just wondering what the deal is with his age..

[trumad]

5. So with that reasoning

Stanford would have been killed as well?

[JonLP24]

7. I guess you haven't heard of Chris Weinke

He won the Heisman at 28. Played minor league baseball prior to joining Florida State Seminoles.

[fishwax]

16. It's not that unusual for college football players to also play minor-league baseball, like Elway

did at Stanford and plenty of other players have done. It doesn't render them ineligible to play college athletics. Most who do so play baseball in the summer while playing football and taking classes during the school year. However, there are some players who play baseball full time. As long as they haven't enrolled full time in college, that doesn't effect their eligibility to play NCAA football.

If I'm not mistaken, playing a sport only limits your eligibility to play that sport for the NCAA, meaning that, theoretically, Lebron James could still play college football if he wanted to.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. It was embarassing?

So...we're supposed to give up on dreams because someone says we're too old? Come on.

[trumad]

8. Rodger Staubach was a 27 year old Rookie.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Wasn't David Robinson About That Old Too?

He graduated from USNA and spent 4 years or so in the Navy, right? So, he had to be around 25 or 26 when went to the NBA, or so i remember.
GAC

[Liberal_Dog]

10. IIRC,Robinson Served Only Two Years

The Navy let him go early because Robinson's height made it difficult for him to serve onboard ship.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. I Think You're Right

That sounds really familiar. I forgot about that.

[madinmaryland]

11. This has to be one of the lamest threads I have seen on DU.

There is no age limit for college players. Aren't they all adults, anyway? Besides he has not been playing football all of those years.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. If anything, it's kind of amazing that he's been successful.

Shoulder wear and tear is what killed his baseball career. To be a successful QB after that blows my mind.

[madinmaryland]

13. It is very amazing. I just can't beleive

that someone is whining about him actually playing. Well, maybe I shouldn't be.

[HuckleB]

14. Alan Moore oldest college player at 61

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6952098/faulkner-kicker-alan-moore-61-becomes-oldest-college-player

Weeden is young.

[fishwax]

15. I don't get what should be embarassing about it

At any rate, I don't think there is an age limit to play college football. Generally speaking, players have four years of eligibility that must be used within a five year window beginning when they enroll full time in college. If players don't go to college right out of high school, then their window doesn't start right out of high school.

[joeybee12]

17. Sorry, but from my vantage point, 28 is just a baby! nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. lol

[fishwax]

18. Incidentally, Stanford's 26-year-old Reciever Jordan Pratt was a minor-league teammate of Weeden's

http://newsok.com/osu-football-brandon-weeden-stanfords-jordan-pratt-recall-time-as-baseball-teammates/article/3634204

The Oklahoma State quarterback and Stanford wide receiver spent a sweltering summer together in 2005 with the Class A Columbus Catfish, the Los Angeles Dodgers' former minor league affiliate in Georgia. After practice or before games, they'd often take a break from baseball and play out another sports fantasy.

“He'd bring out a football every once in a while and throw me routes,” Pratt said. “We'd always talk about, ‘If baseball doesn't work out, we'll go back and play football.' Everybody else is like, ‘Yeah right, that'll never happen.' And the two of us were kind of like in the back of our minds thinking, ‘Yeah? We're going to do this if baseball doesn't work out.'“

[hughee99]

20. He was drafted by the Yankees and spent a couple of years

bouncing around the minors until he hurt his arm and couldn't pitch anymore. I guess the injury only affected his ability to throw a baseball (probably an elbow that prevent him from throwing anything but fastballs), not a football. IIRC, Josh Booty (LSU?) was in the same boat a few years back.

As long as you still have your eligibility, you can play at any age. I don't fault the guy for going back to college and using his talents to get a free education.

on edit: I see fishwax beat me to it.

[MineralMan]

22. Is he a student at that college?

If so, why shouldn't he play, if he qualified for the team? I guess I don't understand the issue.