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"The NCAA has approved a massive change to transfer rules as student-athletes will no longer be required to gain permission to contact schools once they decide to leave their current institution, essentially ending the practice of blocking transfers by schools. The policy will go into effect Oct. 15."

So ... next week, schools can start contacting/recruiting players at other universities and vice versa??
 
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It just means if a kid at Florida State wants to come to Miami he can come to Miami and FSU can't do sh*t about it. (Still has to sit a year)
 
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Going to get ugly, they got to sever this before it starts... then again it’s going to be a lot more parity in college football and a lot of teams with less depth. No one is going to want to sit several years to be a backup if they can just transfer
 
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Gonna be interesting that's for sure. Curious to see what unintended consequences stem from this.
 
hotshot said:
"The NCAA has approved a massive change to transfer rules as student-athletes will no longer be required to gain permission to contact schools once they decide to leave their current institution, essentially ending the practice of blocking transfers by schools. The policy will go into effect Oct. 15."

So ... next week, schools can start contacting/recruiting players at other universities and vice versa??
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Only thing I get out of this is the rules will no longer be broken since there will be no rule
 
Is the school also allowed to initiate contact? My understanding was only the student-athlete is allowed to contact the school (and not vice-versa).
 
Finally. It was a ridiculous rule
How can you limit where a kid goes academically?

Coaches leave and go to the same conference all the time.. Dan mullen, Kirby smart, muschamp, etc
 
This is not going to change anything other than schools won't be able to block kids from going to certain schools.

You have to officially decide to leave the institution before anyone is able to contact you. You can't just say I am thinking about leaving, get contacted, and decide to stay. Once you decide you want to leave you have to, and any school can contact you, which is fine.

The only real transfer rule I think NEEDS to stay is that you lose a year of eligibility if you decide to transfer. If that rule were to change then we would have recruiting season every year and teams like Bama could recruit really good Juniors and Seniors from smaller schools that might not get the national attention that Bama gets.
 
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I don't have an issue with this, but do agree with some type of delay before you can play for the other team. Maybe if you decide to leave your current team before a set date in the current season you could play on the next team immediately, but after that date or if you transfer in the fall you sit out a year? Something to allow kids to transfer more easily, but also not build super teams.

I also think they they should drop the concept of red shirting altogether and just give every kid 5 years of eligibility and if you get hurt in your 5th year you can apply for a 6th year.
 
This is how it should always be. Why should a coach have any say in where a kid can transfer to? Coaches can come and go as they please but a player is some kind of indentured servant because he signed to a school out of high school? Scholarships have to be renewed on a year to year basis so why should a kid be held hostage? They still have to sit out a season so it's not like it's going to open up some flood gates or anything, it just means if a kid wants to transfer, he can to whatever school wants him.
 
What constitutes "sitting out a year"? Do you need to transfer just before the season starts; does this take the new redshirt rule into consideration?
 
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Bama gonna be mid-season recruiting like a ****. I can see it now they play Southwestern Missouri the first game of the season and a kid has a pick and two sacks, next thing you know he's off to Bama.
 
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