re: Matt Schick ESPN - 95% certain” transfers will soon be allowed to play immediately

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Theres absolutely no way that this rule will allow a school to contact a player while he is still officially playing for another school.

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Lol you say that as if it won't still happen.

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Are you for or against this?

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Against, as any fan of college football should be. I know the concept of the "amateur, student athlete" is ever-eroding and all but gone but opening up a free agency is just way out of line. You commit to a school, period. Not a position coach, or a position, or a slot on the depth chart...you commit to play football at that university. If you haven't cracked the starting lineup by year 2 that is in no way a justifiable reason to call it quits and go somewhere else. The only time I'd be in favor of this is in a situation where an entire coaching staff is let go, or the school is hit with sanctions/probation. But I'm pretty sure there are rules in place currently that allow unfettered transfer during this situation anyway.

When we start allowing kids to transfer all the time anytime they're unhappy or get cussed out in practice, and they're getting paid as well, well...the college football we grew up with will all be over. I mean at that point what would separate it from the NFL aside from the fact they also have to go to class?

The smaller teams won't be able to keep the two star players that turn into beasts by their junior year

The scholarships are essentially only a year by year thing. They only ways I would be good with it (and there is a lot more little things that would have to happen, but)

1) if the scholarship is pulled (or doesn’t keep the grades the school requires), the student should have fully unrestricted ability to go to another school and play immediately

2) the athlete cannot go to a school in the same conference

3) the school is closer to the students original home town, or was a school that he had an offer for out of high school

this will ruin the sport.. Recruiting active players on other teams

I don’t like it

What about players who got kicked out

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Are you for or against this?

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Against

Against. I'll turn lower caliber programs into basically a minor league system for the big boys. The top programs would basically turn their attention in high school recruiting to strictly going after 4-5 star players who would be ready for immediate playing time and fill the rest of their roster spots with transfers. G5 conferences would lose a lot of their best players to transfers and basically turn into a minor league program for the elite programs from P5 conferences.

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Not a fan. Unless it benefits lsu

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With our luck, Brennan or Narcisse will be a stud next year, then transfer to USCw.

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Y'all realize the overwhelming majority of NCAA sanctioned sports allow this right?

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Because transferring without having to sit out a year just to go to a more elite team isn't abused in lacrosse or swimming like it would be in football or basketball.

It will be a shite show

I played tennis at lsu. Tennis allows this already (coaches can block a handful of schools-in conference and rivals mainly).

What happens a shite ton, is if a coach finds a diamond in the rough recruit at a smaller school, he ends up at UGA, USC, UVA, or another power house the next year and can play immediately