The NCAA is looking at some possible changes in the transfer rules. I am not sure of the exact timing but if I understand correctly if approved they would be effective in April.
Here is a summary, if you need more info the complete article is at:
https://www.ibj.com/
Indianapolis Business Journal
This is a pay site but I think you get 3 free views per month
The latest proposals, as written below, could be adopted in April:
- Allow student-athletes who have enrolled in summer school and received athletics financial aid to transfer and play immediately if their head coach departs before the first day of classes for the fall term.
- Allow walk-on student-athletes on teams that provide athletics aid and nonrecruited walk-ons to transfer and play immediately.
- Require schools to count financial aid for postgraduate transfers who receive athletics aid and have one season of eligibility remaining in football, women’s basketball and men’s basketball against team limits for two years, regardless of whether the student-athlete remains enrolled after exhausting athletics eligibility. However, a student who successfully completes all degree requirements before the start of the second year would not count in the second year.
- Prohibit student-athletes in all sports from competing during the championship season for two different schools in the same academic year.
Here is a summary, if you need more info the complete article is at:
https://www.ibj.com/
Indianapolis Business Journal
This is a pay site but I think you get 3 free views per month
The latest proposals, as written below, could be adopted in April:
- Allow student-athletes who have enrolled in summer school and received athletics financial aid to transfer and play immediately if their head coach departs before the first day of classes for the fall term.
- Allow walk-on student-athletes on teams that provide athletics aid and nonrecruited walk-ons to transfer and play immediately.
- Require schools to count financial aid for postgraduate transfers who receive athletics aid and have one season of eligibility remaining in football, women’s basketball and men’s basketball against team limits for two years, regardless of whether the student-athlete remains enrolled after exhausting athletics eligibility. However, a student who successfully completes all degree requirements before the start of the second year would not count in the second year.
- Prohibit student-athletes in all sports from competing during the championship season for two different schools in the same academic year.
