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New Transfer and Redshirt Rules

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http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23782893/ncaa-passes-reform-allows-athletes-transfer-permission

Starting in Oct student-athletes will be able to transfer without obtaining permission and schools cannot block the transferring athlete from certain schools. Also, student-athletes will be able to redshirt a season after still playing in up to four games in that season. These new rules apply to all sports.
 
These are pretty significant changes. Freshmen will get the opportunity to play in games before an official decision is made about redshirting. This should benefit player development quite a bit.

I think it benefits FCS programs as well by increasing gameday depth early in the year. Coaches can use more freshmen on special teams to give the rotation players a breather in those FBS games where the smaller school tends to fade in the second half.

Very cool rule change.
 
Always nice to see people discussing ht merits of NCAA rules. ;-)

For clarification, the change in the transfer model is for all sports and becomes effective in October. The change to allow 4 games of competition without counting as a season of competition is only for football. Other sports will likely follow with similar percentages for their seasons in the future.
 
To go along with relaxing the transfer and red shirt rules, they are also strengthening the rules against bigger schools poaching players off of other programs. That is also a step in the right direction.

Although a coach can no longer restrict where a transferring player may go, conferences can restrict transfers within their own conference. I'm not sure where the BSC stands on this issue. I'm sure that there will be clarifications coming.
 
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