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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2676981, member: 5823"] Nothing has changed yet but much could change come June. [B]1)[/B] The NCAA is considering new transfer rules that would allow athletes to NOT have to sit for a year after transferring for Football & Basketball. The NCAA is expected to make a decision around June on the new rules. The exact new rules , or even if there will be any new rules are unclear. One original proposal was to eliminate the wait year all together. There were several amendments from the original proposal [B]A)[/B] Expand the transfer rules (wait 1 year) to all sport. [B]B)[/B] Eliminate the 1 year wait in the case of a coaching change [B]C)[/B] Tie immediate eligibility to grades, better student sit less time or not at all. Separate from the amount of time a student would wait or not wait is the issue of notification to the current school. The proposal that seems to certainly pass is the elimination of the notification rules that are in place today where a student has to gain a release from their current school before they can talk to another school. The mechanics of how that will actually work have not been detailed yet and some envision a clearing house type system where a student wanting to transfer would put their name in a database and all school would have an opportunity to recruit from that data base. Hopefully you see the problem: a coach could go to this database hoping to recruit players transferring from other schools only to learn ( for the first time) that some of his or her own player are also transferring. IMO June will be a bang or a whimper for the NCAA-eliminate the transfer rule for everyone or keep the existing rules because anything in between brings potential problems in implementation and the potential for more lawsuits. I am predicting elimination of all transfer rules including notification and making everyone immediately eligible subject to the same minimum GPA requirements as exists today. [B]2)[/B] Shepard's immediate eligibility at ND is a separate matter that highlighted the need not necessarily for change but more transparency on the part of the NCAA. Under the current process any player can petition the NCAA to be immediately eligible in the case of a transfer. ND petitioned the NCAA and was granted immediately eligibility by the NCAA. Te'a Cooper of South Carolina petitioned and was denied. As a matter of policy the NCAA does not provide an explanation as to why one petition was successful and another was not. Dawn Staley advised Cooper's parents to "lawyer up" meaning they should sue the NCAA This is the reason for my prediction above that the NCAA doesn't want a law suit for every petition denied therefore preemptively eliminate the petition process and reduce it to something that [USER=15]@UConnCat[/USER] and many other have become resigned to and dubbed "WAIVERS FOR EVERYONE!" The NCAA can't get more transparent than to eliminate the process. [/QUOTE]

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