New transfer portal rules being proposed
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that is a good depiction. I do not recall the NCAA actually being in a lawsuit over transfers in which there was legal decision one way or the other. I think Tom Mars threatened in a few cases, and these got worked out as settlement. The vast majority of players were still sitting out a year, before the NCAA allowed the "1 free year rule" to go into effect. They still have the rule that 2nd transfer would still sit a year. putting a calendar on this makes sense for everyone.When the NCAA hears ‘lawsuit’….
Not mentioned in the OP is that even though there are proposed transfer windows, there would be 'unlimited' opportunity to transfer.
Well, that’s another game changer. I’ll wait to see exactly how this will impact the sport, but it’s going to be different, no doubt.
I would like to propose radical rule change regarding transfers.
At the end of the season the entire team must transfer out into a giant pool. Then like the NFL draft the teams with the worst record get to choose first and so on up to the National Champions repeatedly until all the players are selected. You get a completely new roster every year without the recruiting nonsense. Then we really get to see who’s a great coach and who’s a grifter stealing money. I know the idea is crazy, but at least it’s different, because what their doing now is just destroying the sport.
At the end of the season the entire team must transfer out into a giant pool. Then like the NFL draft the teams with the worst record get to choose first and so on up to the National Champions repeatedly until all the players are selected. You get a completely new roster every year without the recruiting nonsense. Then we really get to see who’s a great coach and who’s a grifter stealing money. I know the idea is crazy, but at least it’s different, because what their doing now is just destroying the sport.
I think this could potentially lead to a lot of grade fixing shenanigans. If you don’t want player X to transfer, make sure he doesn’t have the grades to be academically eligible. Or there may be players and interested parties putting pressure on professors to make sure that failing grade is changed. Nothing a few bucks couldn’t fix.
if a player was academically ineligible at the original institution, they wouldn't be able to play at the original school, so transfer does not seem relevant. If you are not eligible, then it does not matter what school you are at, so transferring cannot make you suddenly eligible. Seems silly we would even need to say the obvious in a new rule.
There should be a hard wall between academics and sports. My brother teaches part time at tOSU, and he also works for a law firm who deals with academic and federal research compliance. I guarantee if someone tried to put pressure on him for grade changes, he would report them to the GC who in Ohio reports to the Ohio AG, not the tOSU President. Most faculty are not going to tolerate grade manipulation. A faculty member can lose their tenure over something like that. That would be a level of corruption that is hard to imagine anyone tolerating.
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