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Interesting point in the article talks about adding an extra year to any athletes that transfer and have to sit out a year as a result.
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So transferring after your redshirt year and before you graduate would carry no consequences to nomadic players?
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That's how I'm interpreting it; they would still have to sit out a year, but would get one back at the end of their normal eligibility.
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Just came across this article from the NCAA.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/med ... icy-change

It looks like they would need to apply for (and be granted) a hardship waiver in order to get the 6th year added to their eligibility. So similar to a medical hardship, except this would be for non-medical reasons like a serious illness in the family or maybe transferring to take courses not offered by your original institution (that's not spelled out in the article, I'm just assuming that could be a legitimate, but possibly abused, reason).
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fromolwyoming wrote:So transferring after your redshirt year and before you graduate would carry no consequences to nomadic players?
So what happens when there is a kid who goes to a MWC or MAC school and was receiving some interest from a Pac12 or Big10 school, then he red-shirts, puts on 20 pounds of muscle his freshman year then the Pac12/Big10 school decides he is good enough, and offers?

I see this as a way to turn non-BCS schools into the minor leagues for the BCS schools.
If you ever need to laugh, just remember there was some idiot who wanted Bohl fired after 2 seasons.
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fromolwyoming wrote:So transferring after your redshirt year and before you graduate would carry no consequences to nomadic players?
So what happens when there is a kid who goes to a MWC or MAC school and was receiving some interest from a Pac12 or Big10 school, then he red-shirts, puts on 20 pounds of muscle his freshman year then the Pac12/Big10 school decides he is good enough, and offers?

I see this as a way to turn non-BCS schools into the minor leagues for the BCS schools.
If you ever need to laugh, just remember there was some idiot who wanted Bohl fired after 2 seasons.
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BeaverPoke wrote:
fromolwyoming wrote:So transferring after your redshirt year and before you graduate would carry no consequences to nomadic players?
So what happens when there is a kid who goes to a MWC or MAC school and was receiving some interest from a Pac12 or Big10 school, then he red-shirts, puts on 20 pounds of muscle his freshman year then the Pac12/Big10 school decides he is good enough, and offers?

I see this as a way to turn non-BCS schools into the minor leagues for the BCS schools.
Well that scenario could happen right now, EXCEPT it's illegal for schools to contact a player at another university. They can't converse unless A) the player is released by their original school, or B) the player's current school gives the specific school permission to contact a player.

Either way, the rule provision they are talking about is only in effect if a hardship waiver is approved.
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