Yahoo Sports NCAA council doesn't pass graduate transfer changes, tweaks other transfer rules
The NCAA declined to change the current graduate transfer rule for football and basketball and potentially limit graduate transfers across the two sports.
Graduate transfers currently have the ability to immediately transfer to a different school and enroll in a graduate program that isn’t offered at their previous school. If a graduate transfer has one year of eligibility remaining, he or she receives a scholarship that counts against the new school’s scholarship limit for that one season.
A proposal that was not passed by the Division I Council Friday posited that a graduate transfer’s scholarship should count against his or her new team’s scholarship limit for two seasons unless the transferring player completes his or her graduate program within the first school year.
Here’s the official language in the proposal:
15.5.1.2 Basketball and Football -- Graduate Transfer. In basketball and football, a graduate transfer student-athlete who receives athletically related financial aid and enrolls at the certifying institution with one season of eligibility remaining shall be a counter for two academic years.
15.5.1.2.1 Exception -- Completion of Degree Requirements. If a graduate transfer student-athlete successfully completes all degree requirements prior to the start of his or her second academic year of enrollment, he or she shall not be considered a counter for the subsequent academic year.
The NCAA did tweak the transfer rule
While the DI Council didn’t change the graduate transfer rules it decided to tweak the rules for players who aren’t on scholarship. Walk-on players now have the right to transfer to another school and become immediately eligible.
Incoming players who are on scholarship can also now transfer without penalty if they had enrolled in summer school and their coach had left or been fired before the season began.
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Nick Bromberg is a writer for Yahoo Sports
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