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New NCAA Transfer Rule Allows For Immediate Eligibility

by Staff Reporter

April 17, 202439 Comments

Matthew Hinton-USA TODAY Sports

The NCAA approved a new transfer rule on Wednesday that will allow all undergraduate athletes to transfer and play immediately if they meet specific academic requirements. Per ESPN:

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The decision isn't final until the meetings end on Thursday, and the rule still needs to be formally approved by the NCAA's executive board Monday, but that is expected to be a formality. The rule will provide immediately eligibility to any athletes who have transferred during the 2023-24 academic year, including the football players who entered the transfer portal Tuesday and during this window -- as long as they are academically eligible and meeting progress-towards-degree requirements at their new school.

The legislation will not limit the number of times an athlete can transfer -- and there are still two transfer windows -- but they can't transfer midyear and play for a second school in the same season. Although the new rule is tied to academic progress, some in college athletics have expressed concern about the long-term implications for graduation rates.

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pitchandcatch27•25 months

So much for recruiting, players will just come from the transfer portal. So much for the 3 or 4 year commitment player. Ruining college football. Pride anyone?

tigerforever7•25 months

This is ridiculous. Who is making these decisions haha. Killing the collegiate product.

CDawson•25 months

The NCAA continues to pour gas on its burning office. The portal is the biggest single disaster I have witnessed in college sports. NIL is easy, being a instant free agent is not.

DandA•25 months

The NCAA needs to die. NIL needs to die. These kids are making more money in college than most of them will ever make in their sport as a professional. Not to mention the FREE education they get with their scholarship. This system is even more broken than it was pre-NIL.

gizmothepug•25 months

College football as we once knew it is dead. Let’s cut the BS and go right to a couple super leagues, AKA minor league football. The NCAA is a useless organization, and once the schools that actually matter tell them to frick off, things will run smother.

Walt OReilly•25 months

Imagine giving your hard earned money to schools so they can give it to a bunch of 18 yr olds who might not even stay 6 months at the school. I think I’ll use that money on a vacation instead of some random person I’ve never met before

CanebreakCajun•25 months

Treat them like employees. Would you hire someone who has has had 4 jobs 2 years?

BEATIGER•25 months

Way to stay ahead of this, NCAA. . . frikkin NOT!!

What a woefully inept bunch of sorry mofos.

poncho villa•25 months

This is the exact opposite of what needed to happen. NIL going to get muddy as hell with players signing deals then getting better ones mid-season

TigahJay•25 months

Literally says you can’t transfer mid season

Tiger Prawn•25 months

Sign an NIL deal and transfer in the January window. Then go back into the portal again after spring practice and go for a better NIL deal

Tigerpride18•25 months

All this does is make it possible to transfer more than once without having to sit out a year . Which was already happening because of wavers

BlackPot•25 months

It's like we going from the wild west to the wild wild west. None of this, makes this better for anyone.

Woodman•25 months

Did this just kill the SEC rule that prevented portal transfers from other SEC schools without sitting out a year?

cajunmud•25 months

That was my first thought too...does this trump the SEC rule? I think we're headed for a pissin contest.

Tiger2022•25 months

Unbelievable. Are they trying to ruin the game?

jafari rastaman•25 months

If we have a kid that’s thinking about transferring, but we want him to stay, we need to be telling his professors to lower his grades. Then he won’t meet this academic requirement, which will make transferring less appealing, and him more likely to stay at LSU.

cheeto225•25 months

then he couldnt play anyways bc of his grades

Geaux Guy•25 months

These kids miss out on so much. Never experience the ‘apply and acceptance’ stress.

lsuson•25 months

At some point the Feds will take over the college sports and fire the ncaa

ImBatman•25 months

Then it will only get worse with the Feds running it, corrupt too.

EvrybodysAllAmerican•25 months

Yep. Ncaa is incompetent but feds are corrupt and incompetent.

tigerbite2•25 months

College athletics is headed for the toilet....compliments of an incompetent NCAA....

SophisticatedRedneck•25 months

To leach on to the stupidity of NC double A -- Do they need an ID to transfer?

jdd48•25 months

NCAA doing everything they can to out stupid the NFL.

LSUbest•25 months

Are they trying to kill college athletics?

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