NCAA finalizes new transfer rules

[CL82]

No waiting period for 1st time transfers

But then there's this:

The one-time exception will count for athletes who transfer after graduating. Previously, NCAA rules permitted athletes who had graduated to transfer and be immediately eligible.

Now, if an athlete has already use a one-time exception for a transfer as an undergraduate, the athlete is not automatically eligible as a graduate transfer. Athletes can still apply for a waiver to become eligible under certain circumstances.

If you graduate, you are not transferring. It's not that way for non-athletes, why should it be any different for athletes? I mean isn't the NCAA's big theme to assure progress toward graduation? Why penalize those who have been successful?

 

[UConNick]

Weird that they’re drawing the line at grad transfers, when I and (I think) a lot of other people actually find their transferring and not sitting out more palatable than the new rule. As a reward for success, like you said.

 

[LIuconn]

I think this will funnel talent towards P5 programs

 

[John Greene]

I think this will funnel talent towards P5 programs

As if they needed a bigger funnel.