Potential Grad Transfer rule change

[RamblinRed]

NCAA is going to vote on a rule change in two weeks that would require any school taking a grad transfer to commit 2 years to that student even if they only have one year of eligibility left. in essence, you have a dead year on the scholarship.

There is a feeling that the original rationale for the rule has been co-opted and most of the SA's using them aren't really interested in school.

Would affect football and men and women's basketball.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...ail-the-growing-number-of-graduate-transfers/

 

[slugboy]

Hmmm. So “we’re worried that graduate transfers won’t finish their graduate degrees quickly” leads to a policy of “we’re going to dock scholarships so hard if they don’t finish within a year that graduate transfers will be rare”. Even if a student player would finish in a year, their scholarship might be burned by someone who didn’t, or the other coach may not be willing to take the risk.

This doesn’t seem pro-student or pro-athlete.

I got a graduate degree, I’m pro-academics, and this just seems like a way to stop transfers to me.


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[lv20gt]

So basically it is making grad transfers like normal transfers. Sit a year to transfer, just with the possibility of saving a year.

I like that rule. It rewards players who are actually transferring to get a graduate degree by guaranteeing them a scholarship for the duration of their graduate program, and doesn't hurt them because they won't have to sit out a year, while de-incentivizing schools from going the rent a player route because if they want a transfer who doesn't have to sit out it will have to be a legit graduate degree level player who is serious about getting the degree, not just wanting an opportunity to showcase his basketball skills somewhere else.

 

[YlJacket]

Does the rule require that the athlete get the second year of paid for scholarship? I thought it was simply a year that the school limit went down by 1 ship overall?

Seems to go against the trend / thought that athletes should have more flexibility to move/transfer than less.

 

[lv20gt]

"The rule would be a nod more toward academics, requiring schools to commit a scholarship to the length of the pursuit of the graduate degree. In most cases, that's two years."

You can give a scholarship to someone even if they are no longer eligible. It isn't done for obvious reasons, but I don't see how a school can commit to a scholarship without someone being on the receiving end of it.

 

[bke1984]

Wait, so the NCAA wants to force a two year commitment to grad students, but will still allow single year commitments to undergrads?

I could be wrong, but that’s how I remember it working. Seems a bit hypocritical.

 

[MWBATL]

Wait, so the NCAA wants to force a two year commitment to grad students, but will still allow single year commitments to undergrads?

I could be wrong, but that’s how I remember it working. Seems a bit hypocritical.

Ummm, it is the NCAA. Hypocritical is their middle name.....