2018 Off Season Thread

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MikeJackets1967 said:
Things are really changing in College Football the SEC has changed the rules as to transferring within the SEC. Players who transfer within the SEC no longer have to sit out a season,they can play in the upcoming season.
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That doesn't do anything to the NCAA rule about transfers having to sit out a year. This was an SEC rule that required graduate transfers within the conference to sit out a year. If a graduate transferred to Florida from Michigan he would have been eligible to play immediately. If a graduate transferred from Ole Miss to Florida, he had to sit out a year.(Van Jefferson) A non-graduate transfer would still have to sit out a year unless the NCAA rules change from the meetings they are currently having.
 
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RonJohn said:
That doesn't do anything to the NCAA rule about transfers having to sit out a year. This was an SEC rule that required graduate transfers within the conference to sit out a year. If a graduate transferred to Florida from Michigan he would have been eligible to play immediately. If a graduate transferred from Ole Miss to Florida, he had to sit out a year.(Van Jefferson) A non-graduate transfer would still have to sit out a year unless the NCAA rules change from the meetings they are currently having.
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Do you think the ACC will do the same thing about football transfers within the conference?
 
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MikeJackets1967 said:
Do you think the ACC will do the same thing about football transfers within the conference?
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The ACC already allows graduate transfers immediate eligibility. The conference rules do require one year before gaining eligibility for in-conference non-graduate transfers, but the NCAA rules require that for any FBS transfers. If the NCAA changes the transfer rules, I suspect the ACC will change the conference rules accordingly.

BTW for non-graduate transfers within the SEC, the player cannot receive a scholarship at the new school for two years. I haven't seen anything that indicates the SEC changed that. The SEC intra-conference transfer rules are much more strict that other conferences. With this rule change that is being touted by the media as enormous, they are only getting half way back to the level of the other conferences.
 
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