NCAA Delays Vote on One Time Transfer Eligibility

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NCAA approves resolution on one-time transfer eligibility to be adopted by January 2021

The decision means transferring players will still have to sit out this coming season

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Sources say you'll have to sit out a year this year:

The NCAA Division I Council took a step toward eventually allowing one-time transfers immediate eligibility in basketball, football, baseball and hockey on Wednesday by approving a measure that calls for the development of new transfer legislation. However, any new rules governing what would be a landmark change to NCAA protocol won't go into effect this year, meaning transferring players in those sports will still need waivers if they are going to be eligible in the 2020-21 academic year, according to Stadium's Brett McMurphy.

The council's decision to delay implementing a rules change allowing all one-time transfers immediate eligibility was the expected outcome after the NCAA Board of Directors recommended last month against changes to the transfer-waiver process "at this time." The development of the new legislation is expected to be a complicated and time-consuming effort at a time when athletic departments are already stretched thin as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

While Wednesday's vote may have been the expected outcome, it will almost certainly bring a fallout for college basketball programs, in particular. Kentucky, for example, secured a commitment from Wake Forest transfer Olivier Sarr earlier this month. If eligible, the 7-footer projects to be the Wildcats' starting center in the 2020-21 season.

 

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To clarify: waivers to the sit-out rule are still possible, just as they were last year or the year before.

Simply, the guidelines for the waiver granting group from last year (and the year before, and so on) remain in place. Instead of being updated to match the guidelines for non-revenue sports, which say that any first-time request for a waiver is almost automatically granted.