NCAA Rule Change Will Prohibit Schools from Blocking Student-Athlete Transfers - Bleacher Report https://apple.news/AJCzzN8zBTZyegXJEnwcK0A
NCAA-No Blocking Transfers
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Thanks...that's a good change. I never understood how a kid, on a year to year scholarship, can be "controlled" beyond that single year by the school.
Anything the benefits the kid is good...I didn't really have a problem with "blocking" but definitely won't complain about the change
And allowing players to play up to 4 games while maintaining their RS eligibility.
So does this give coaches (ie. Harbaugh) that ability to lets call it "soft recruit" kids?
You still can't contact potential transfers before they have their release. But now the process of getting your release isn't when the school approves, it's when you say "I want out" and your name is put on the, for lack of a better term, free agent list.
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I love that rule change. Great development opportunity for teams with stocked rosters. Young QBs must be thrilled!
Good point....so can a kid just put his name on that list every year to see if he gets a better offer? I mean, if you are playing for, say, Syracuse as a Soph WR. Can you see if you can improve your draft status if you xfer to PSU or tOSU? Perhaps you still have to sit out a year.
That's a great rule it gives a coach time to evaluate players in the early part of the year, gives a coach an option to substitute for injured players without burning a year of eligibility. Plus now you can play these guys in a bowl game.
Do some of you realize how many bowl games we lost because we didn't or couldn't use backups, the Rose Bowl killed us, Curtis Enis & JJ, Blair Thomas, Cappy against Oklahoma.
Then there was the Morelli situation , the few snaps he took would have never affected him today.
On the transfer rule i think a coach should be allowed to block an in conference and future opponent IMHO, but it's in place now.
Thankfully most guys don't want to stay in college for 5 years now so the rule might not have a huge impact on things but I don't like the idea that a team could use a player for 4 games strategically and still be allowed to red-shirt him. JMO--I get why others like it. I just see guys like Saban and Meyer doing things with this are going to cause some of those supporting it to attack them.
its a good point...wonder if this is retroactive. We had to play a ton of really young kids at LB couple of years back.
I like this rule but there does need to be some level control. Perhaps you lose a year of eligibility when you transfer. I worry about total chaos and coaches fighting for kids from year to year or even poaching inside other teams.
Yeah, now that was a situation in which this rule makes sense--a lot of kids were forced to play before they were ready due to injury
Oh great. Here comes the chaos. Thank goodness we have a coach who cares about fostering a close-knit family environment.
That's the old rule. The new rule is that you get your scholarship but lose a year of eligibility.
This isn't going to cause any more chaos. The transfer blocking concerns are really few and far between, and even when someone was blocked, public pressure usually made the school change its mind.
The Big Ten rule for intra-conference transfers in football had been to add an extra year of ineligibility on top of the NCAA's mandated one year of ineligibility for a grand total of two years of ineligibility (unless you are Michigan). No idea if this will impact Big Ten policy.
Easy to circumvent for coaches like Harbaugh who will simply use 3rd party intermediaries like high school coaches to low-key recruit players at positions of need. It's going to get ugly, IMHO.
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