Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 3454188, member: 15"] ESPN article on the proposal to allow immediate eligibility with first transfer. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28757527/ncaa-transfer-proposal-guide-means-coaches-players-saying[/URL] Three WCBB coaches quoted -- Graves, Staley and McGraw -- with McGraw opposing the proposal. Only Graves mentions the arbitrariness of the waiver process; I'm surprised Dawn didn't mention that as she certainly complained loudly a couple of years ago when Cooper's waiver was denied (after Shepard's was granted). Muffet benefitted from the current system (Shepard and some grad transfers) and hasn't had the experience of a player's waiver request being denied while others were granted. The reality is that this proposal would not be out there had the NCAA not mismanaged the waiver process. Graves's statement makes the most sense: [B][I]Kelly Graves, Oregon coach[/I][/B] [I] "I feel any student-athlete, regardless of sport. should be able to transfer one time without penalty. It's done in most sports. I'm not sure the numbers would say the transfer penalty is even a deterrent. There are just a million different reasons why a person should be able to transfer. I don't like how the NCAA seems to arbitrarily rule on what reason is valid and what reason isn't. Either you don't let anybody transfer without penalty, or you let them all. "If they transfer a second time, maybe then you impose a penalty -- sitting a year out. But one time is fine with me. I think there should be penalties if you find out that there is recruitment going on when players are already in college, but I don't see that's going to be any more of an issue than it is already. And it doesn't seem like the other sports that have transfers without penalties have chaos, any more than there is in basketball or football."[/I] [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,452

Messages: 4,396,828

Members: 10,208

Latest member: gemini*trvl