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Another likely byproduct of the rule, if not properly checked, will be package deals where coaches can market themselves to schools along with the QB or handful of players that they will bring with them.
I'm generally in favor of loosening the transfer rules and the lack of a penalty, but there is at least going to need to be a rule that prohibits immediate transfers when a coach on staff has any contact with the player prior to them entering the transfer portal be it as their coach or as an outside coach illegally trying to recruit them to transfer.
Did Luke Ford red-shirt?
Without consist regulation this is getting worse. If restricting transfers to one per player with immediate eligibility, I can live with it. I’d place one caveat on that—no transfers within the conference.
Not certain whether I like the proposal versus the current flawed and seemingly arbitrary system, I'd like to see argument from both sides. It does seem that transferring within conference should be discouraged in some way. Maybe the recipient school should reimburse the transferring school for the year(s) of scholarship the athlete enjoyed. Just throwing that out (as a booster).
That would just add unnecessary complication. Most school are going to be paying very close to 85 scholarships anyway.
Who trusts the NCAA to go by any rules they put in place?
Another unsavory, but realistic scenario....
Player decides to use freebie transfer to School A in order to avoid a mandatory or discipline-related suspension at School B, which has a higher standard with respect to certain behaviors or activities.
Fill in the blanks for Schools A and B however you wish.
The bigger impact is if the XFL actually sticks around. Vince McMahon has stated they are not ruling out taking kids straight out of High School. May do like the NBA and make it one year removed from High School. This could potentially have a huge impact on CFB. Why transfer when you can join the XFL and get paid while waiting for the three years the NFL requires?
https://www.nj.com/sports/2019/04/reshaping-professional-football-could-the-xfl-take-players-too-young-for-the-nfl.html
I agree.
Granting immediate eligibility in my mind should be the extreme exception to the rule. This is college football, not the farm league for the NFL. It's a game that is supposed to be played by STUDENT-athletes. The immediate eligibility option should be kept open for those extreme cases, and what constitutes an extreme case needs to be standardized and transparent.
Justine Fields transferred for the same reason Jacob Eason did. They wanted to play and lost (or didn't gain) the starting position. One player sat out a year and one player was immediately eligible, for a bs reason. And everyone knows it.
So great, I'm glad they've streamlined the bureaucracy for student-athletes to change schools. There's lots of reasons a STUDENT might legitably want to change schools. Maybe they want to change majors, maybe they're not happy with their current school's academic program, maybe there is some family crisis that requires them to be closer to home, or some serious threat to the student. ....but impatient because they didn't get their way as fast as they wanted it to play a sport isn't one of them.
This is getting ridiculous! I believe this will hurt the game alot. But on the flip side I also believe that because of this the NCAA will have to expand the playoffs. Cause ultimately the number of teams with a shot to win the NC will increase. Thats the only good thing I see coming from this.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2876937-ncaa-working-group-proposes-waiver-change-for-immediate-d1-transfer-eligibility
https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/19769/bama-georgia-ohio-state-and-clemson-may-be-responsible-for-changing-transfer-rules#latest
Just wait till other schools get the word out by means of behind the back hearsay . All the hard work some coaches put in will be wasted on recruiting. Does this mean a letter or intent signed will be worthless. Can they leave after spring game if they think they want get playing time. This is a huge mistake.
This isn't going to increase the number 4 and 5 star players available. There are a limited number of talented players available each year, and those talented players tend to want to play for successful programs.
Think about it, there are roughly about 1,100,00 high school football players in the US, about 10,000 scholarships players in Div 1 football at any time. Out of those roughly 10k scholarship players roughly 250 will be drafted into the NFL each year.
If a 4 or 5 star player only wanted to make sure he started for a team, pick any number of non-elite teams that's not stacked with talented players. They'd be guaranteed to start their freshman year.
I don't see this one action leveling the playing field dramatically. Elite players will still want to play with elite programs. The playing field was leveled when the NCAA enforced scholarship limits, and cracked down on recruiting violations.
This works both ways.
UGA will be impacted, but you better believe they will impact.
think about how much effort they put in recruiting... do you think if a player can transfer in to play for the top programs that they won’t.
they get more exposure and can win a natty without sitting out.
If a kids wants to transfer in conference, then they should have to sit a year. If a kid wants to transfer out of conference, then let them play.
My biggest point I try to make in all of this is how some think sitting out a year is the end of the world. People act like this is detrimental to their rights and future or such crap. 🙄
It's a good idea to attach some sort of cost to a school that poaches their competition's players. But the actual price tag of one players scholarship to a big time program is to insignificant to sway any behavior of that sort.
I kind of wish they would. It'd clean up our sport a lot if they took the ones that are only interested in getting paid and playing. I guess we'd lose some talent but I'm not sure if it'd be noticeable in the grand scheme.
As a fan of one of the bigger programs in college football, I'm well aware that this would likely help UGA more than hurt. But there are bigger things at play here. I think turning college football into a dirty mercenary league would absolutely destroy the support it receives. It would drag the entire thing down into the mud. Fans won't care about players that have no loyalty what so ever to the program. Do not underestimate what this would do to the sport overall. Do not think college football is to big to fail.
If that happend then the NCAA would have to start allowing the schools to pay the highly ranked players. They would be forced to.