D1 4-year Transition Rule - Conference Tournaments

One of the dumbest rules in college sports and there’s a lot of them. I can understand going D1 to D2 but there’s no advantage going D2 to D1. This has happened a few time the last few years and it’s BS. They need to change this rule.

Agreed it sucks for them and on a side it's crazy they were D3 about 5 years ago and went straight to D1.

If they aren't eligible for the NCAA tournament, don't let them play in the conference tournament. If they're good enough to win the conference tournament, let them into the Big Dance.
This shite isn't that hard.

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One of the dumbest rules in college sports and there’s a lot of them. I can understand going D1 to D2 but there’s no advantage going D2 to D1. This has happened a few time the last few years and it’s BS. They need to change this rule.

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The eligibility requirements for D1 and D2 are different. All D1 athletes would be eligible for D2 but not the reverse isn't true.

The rule is to keep teams from winning with players who wouldn't be eligible to play if they weren't on a transitional team.

The eligibility differences aren't just academic. There are differences in age limits and playing timelines. For instance, in D2 football, a player has 10 semesters to play five seasons.

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The eligibility requirements for D1 and D2 are different. All D1 athletes would be eligible for D2 but not the reverse isn't true.

The rule is to keep teams from winning with players who wouldn't be eligible to play if they weren't on a transitional team.

The eligibility differences aren't just academic. There are differences in age limits and playing timelines. For instance, in D2 football, a player has 10 semesters to play five seasons.

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None of this justifies the rule.

They call it the Randy Moss rule

Back when you could transfer to I-AA without sitting out a year, Marshall loaded up on a lot of I-A transfers and then moved up to I-A and dominated. The rule was to prevent gaming the system like that

That doesn't justify the rule either.

The NCAA can't get out of their own way. They are a relic and will be extinct in the near future.

The rules exist to stop the manipulation. Timing your moving up when you know you have a good team so that you can cash in quickly.

FCS and Division 2 had much more lax eligibility standards, so the phase in rules would stop a team from recruiting a bunch of ringers and then moving up and cashing in; they can still recruit ringers and move up, but they can't cash in.
The rules may be obsolete at this point; I'm not sure there are any eligibility standards anymore.