NCAA considering new transfer rule?

[Markedman]

Yeah what is wrong with college athletics is there just isn't enough player movement.........

[IWB]

Exactly Markedman - at the end of last year there were over 450 transfers. So now they want to make it easier to increase the number? Dumb.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

This is just one more step towards creating even more separation between the majors and mid major schools. They are ruining what is great about CBB... I really hate what this is all becoming.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

More details: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...-college-hoops

[TheSultan]

DeCourcy just tweeted: "Bright side if NCAA adopts 2.6 transfer rule? Athletic departments will no longer discourage tougher courses. Below the line!"

I understand what the NCAA is trying to do here. There is a lot of criticism about the one-year out rule for transfers, and I think this what they view as a compromise position. But I think all it is going to do is create more problems.

I think what the NCAA should do is simply allow one transfer per student athlete without sitting out a year. That means no more "graduate program that doesn't exist at my school" exception....no more "my mother is sick exception, etc. Just make it simple. You get one "free" transfer without sitting out a year....mid-year transfers have to wait to the beginning of the next season.

Yeah, it will cause some controversies, such as players going to top-level programs for championship opportunities, but at least it is simple and straight-forward.

[Nukem2]

Realistically, how many transferees with good/great athletic skills have a 2.6 GPA....? Will KY go after marginally-talented BB players with a 2.6 GPA? After thinking about it, would this be a really big deal or would most transfers result in a redshirt season anyway?

[GOMU1104]

This is absurd. Several problems.....

1) A coach could say to a kid, "We like you, but just aren't sure you are good enough. Go to Eastern Illinois for a year, if you excel there, we will take you next year.

2) It would help schools like Kentucky rebuild and reload every year. Is that why this is needed? Too hard for Kentucky to reload after losing the starting five to the draft?

3) Discriminatory as all hell. Here you have the Prince of Bel Aire. Young Carlton grew up in the best schools, the best programs, tutors and teachers. He had all of the advantages as a kid, so school is somewhat easy for him. He didn't work hard at all, and pulled a 2.8, so he can transfer wherever he wants and play immediately. Then you have his cousin Will. Will grew up in East Philly. Rough neighborhood, did his best to stay out of gangs, was basically passed through school because he showed up, he didn't skip every day like his friends. He was never really pushed hard in school, and when he got to college it was a struggle adjusting to the school work, but with extra time in study hall, extra time with his professors, he fights and works hard to get a 2.5. So, is it fair that Carlton breezes his way to a 2.8 and can go where he wants but Will, who busted his ass and gets a 2.5 is stuck?

WRONG.

Will is from West Philadelphia, born and raised.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

I think they need to adjust the rules to make it so if the head coach that recruited you to a school leaves you get a free transfer without sitting out, otherwise rules should stay the same. This will create too much poaching of other schools players. I also think there should be a clause where if the school does not want to extend the players scholarship then they can also transfer without sitting out.

[IWB]

It would be a big deal. Let's say Steve Taylor gets a 2.8. UNC needs help at the 4 spot, as they just lost one to the NBA and one to a transfer. Would people be ok with it if a guy like Steve Taylor was lured away by UNC because he had a great freshman year and UNC needs a PF? No - that would blow.

Anyone with a GPA higher than a 2.6 has the opportunity to upgrade.

The system is fine right now, just needs to be tweaked, not overhauled as there are problems.

I know of a kid right now(cough, cough, Pro-Am). Was his team's leading returning scorer. His coach got the ax, new coach comes in and wants to play a different style of ball, a system that would have him changing a LOT. So, he talks it out with the new head coach. The new coach decides he should leave. He heads out East to his new school. He appeals the transfer redshirt, saying he was forced to leave, but loses the appeal so he has to sit out, and doing so he loses a year of eligibility as he already had a developmental redshirt season his freshman year. So, not only does he have to sit out a year, he loses that year. Why? Because the new coach doesn't want him? That is wrong.

Here is his actual timeline.....

2009-10: Gets a scholarship, but agrees that he will need to redshirt to put on weight. (Freshman redshirt)
2010-11: Plays sparingly as a freshman, but does well. (Freshman year)
2011-12: Plays very well, 3rd team all conference. (Sophomore year)
Coach is fired, new coach does not want him.
2012-13: Sitting out as a redshirt transfer, but because he already had a redshirt, it counts. (Junior year)
2013-14: Will be his senior year.

So, he redshirted because he needed it, then had to transfer because a new coach didn't want him, so he loses the junior year of his playing career? BS. Like I said, there are things that need to be tweaked, but the 2.6 is not the answer.

[TheSultan]

It would be a big deal. Let's say Steve Taylor gets a 2.8. UNC needs help at the 4 spot, as they just lost one to the NBA and one to a transfer. Would people be ok with it if a guy like Steve Taylor was lured away by UNC because he had a great freshman year and UNC needs a PF? No - that would blow.

I'm not doubting that it would be a blow, I am saying that the student should have that right.

BuzzWilliams...I do like your ideas too.