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http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...aa-transfer-rules-could-place-fall/407841002/
The NCAA is poised to make it easier for Division I athletes in good academic standing to transfer without having to sit out of competition for a year, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said Thursday.
Barta has spent the past year on a committee studying ways to make transfers uniform across all sports while being fair to both the universities and the students.
He said a vote on new rules is planned for June with implementation as early as this fall...
...Barta said there is wide support in his committee for two changes he expects to take effect by this fall regardless of whether the full rule change is ready — students will no longer need their university’s permission to transfer, and the university cannot block them from getting financial aid at their new school. In the past, a coach could create a list of schools, typically rivals, where an athlete couldn’t transfer and remain on scholarship.
The new rule mandates “an accountability both ways,” Barta said.
Barta said NCAA data show that an athlete who transfers schools has a lower likelihood of graduating. The new rule would address that by ensuring that only students with a certain GPA — probably well above 3.0 — and enough coursework completed to be on track to graduate on time would be allowed to transfer and play immediately. Those details are still being worked out.
Barta said unconditional transfers — a sort of college free agency — were never discussed. It will still be against NCAA rules to recruit athletes at other universities.
The NCAA is poised to make it easier for Division I athletes in good academic standing to transfer without having to sit out of competition for a year, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said Thursday.
Barta has spent the past year on a committee studying ways to make transfers uniform across all sports while being fair to both the universities and the students.
He said a vote on new rules is planned for June with implementation as early as this fall...
...Barta said there is wide support in his committee for two changes he expects to take effect by this fall regardless of whether the full rule change is ready — students will no longer need their university’s permission to transfer, and the university cannot block them from getting financial aid at their new school. In the past, a coach could create a list of schools, typically rivals, where an athlete couldn’t transfer and remain on scholarship.
The new rule mandates “an accountability both ways,” Barta said.
Barta said NCAA data show that an athlete who transfers schools has a lower likelihood of graduating. The new rule would address that by ensuring that only students with a certain GPA — probably well above 3.0 — and enough coursework completed to be on track to graduate on time would be allowed to transfer and play immediately. Those details are still being worked out.
Barta said unconditional transfers — a sort of college free agency — were never discussed. It will still be against NCAA rules to recruit athletes at other universities.