New Transfer and Redshirt Rules

[SWeberCat02]

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.

 

[the dan]

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.

 

[WeberCompliance]

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.

 

[oldrunner]

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.