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Would rather this than going the other way. If you're going to provide something for the players, provide the four-year guaranteed scholarship.
Yes! This is the other side of the coin to @NomadDawg's hypothetical. The Wake Forests of the world will struggle to hang on to the handful of elite players they are lucky enough to sign and develop. Free transfers would mean hundreds if not thousands of players changing schools each year once they see an opportunity to move to a better program.
The rich will get richer, the same way that free agency changed baseball. It benefits the player, no doubt. And it works well for the Yankees. But it handicaps the small market teams, and results in an overall decline in popularity of the sport (because fans of the vast majority of programs know they'll never be a winner and their stars will never stay). This is a major reason MLB (which was once America's pastime) has been in major decline for a generation.
In the same way, the proposed rule will be good for the players and good for the top programs (including UGA), but it will be bad for college football as a whole.
This must happen too, which will allow the top schools to stock pile more talent initially and let the cream rise to the top. (Less processing as guys will leave on their own easier).
Players win with immediate ability to play.
Top P5s programs win by being able to fill needs with best available. Rich stay Rich
Average P5 teams win by getting the ability to grab Top P5 teams “leftovers”, making them more competitive but still behind
Group of 5 win by getting lower P5 “leftovers” but also lose out on having a star player for more than one season.
(Whats to stop a G5 kid who balls out unexpectedly the first 4 games announce he plans to sit the remainder of the season, thus taking a redshirt, and he starts taking bids on who wants him most in the P5 ?)
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