The one-time transfer rule for athletes in all sports has been approved by the NCAA

It is crazy how my interest in college sports has cratered over the last year. The closer it gets to a minor league the less I care.

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Good

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who is this good for?

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Since Aug. 1, about 1,500 players have entered the transfer portal, according to a 247Sports database that tracks portal movement. That’s just 200 players shy of the total number who entered the portal all of last cycle, from Aug. 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020.

However, portal numbers can be skewed. As many as one-third of those players are walk-ons, according to an SI examination of the portal. As of last week, only 964 of the 1,500 FBS players in the portal garnered a recruiting ranking from 247Sports (a vast majority of the other 500 are walk-ons).

Of the 964, nearly 60% (558) are uncommitted and still searching for a landing spot. The 964 players are split between those transferring from the Power 5 (557 players) and those transferring from the Group of Five (407 players). In a striking statistic, of the 299 Power 5 players who have committed to a new school, 60% took a step down in level, their next destination a Group of Five or FCS school. Just one-third of Group of Five transfers stepped up to the Power 5.

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This is good for programs like Alabama and blue-chip prospects who will have dozens of offers. For the vast majority of programs and players, this is going to work out very poorly for them

College basketball has become a joke with all the transfers. It's basically free agency at this point. I read every P6 school except 3 have had at least one transfer this offseason.

Get ready to see it in football as well. P5 schools will be hard recruiting any players that have breakout years as a freshman or sophomore at G5 schools.

Recruiting will be easier on coaches now, they can just use actual game film at the college level and pick off kids who may have been under recruited out of high school.

I don't know what was wrong with the old rule that you can transfer but you have to sit a year. Why in the world would that be scrapped aside from the fact we're trying to coddle the gen-z social media instant gratification generation?

I don't like this at all. From my experience as a collegiate athlete 10-14 years ago, the freshmen who would come in and would not immediately start and complain about it were dime a dozen. It's a good thing they didn't leave.

A lot of kids take a while to whip into shape to where they can become coachable. My collegiate athletic days were at the dawn of social media, nothing like it is now, so less "look at me" social media clout chasers. I couldn't imagine what it would be like today.

Gary Patterson was a tough coach to play for, tough but fair. With free for all transfers I bet a lot of guys who I witnessed receive his wrath as freshmen would have transferred out.

I think those who have most to lose here are coaches who are no nonsense, hard nosed types who don't put up with bullshite. You're going to have athletes who would rather play for a coach who is their friend rather than coach because they don't want their fee fees hurt.

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the same year as fields we had another guy, also transferring from UGA (luke ford), want to tranfser back to his home state to be closer to his ailing grandfather. He was denied. Fields didn't get enough PT as a true freshman as he would have liked and was granted. It's a fricking sham.

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Tate Martell, from Nevada, commited and decmottied from Washington, committed and decomitted from A&M, enrolled at OSU, transferred from Ohio State to Miami without sitting out and is now going to get to transfer again without sitting out. But the NCAA would let Kolton Houston play football for three years because a steroid injection for an injury in high school and traces still weren't flushing his system. The NCAA denied Kerwin Okoro a hardship waiver when he tried to transfer from Iowa St to Rutgers (he's from NY) to help his mother after his father died of a stroke and his brother of cancer in the span of two months . The NCAA denied Terry Henderson a 6th year because he played seven minutes of a season before a serious injury ended his season. Seven minutes was enough to cost him his last year of eligiblity. Bryan Burnham of Boise St missed an entire year to illness (I think it was mono) then tore his ACL in the season opener another year. Waiver for 6th year denied, appeal denied. But hey, if you're an elite prospect not getting enough playing time, by all means, create a bullshite hardship the NCAA will rubber-stamp your waiver and send you on your way

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It worked fine for years in baseball

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...that was a sport with "no" scholarships.

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They already get whoever they want

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You don't see the difference between cherry picking players in high school vs. cherry picking players from other programs? Even professional sports have the ability to lock down players for a few years at a time.

Most importantly, this is terrible for fans of the game and the game itself.

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I don't know what was wrong with the old rule that you can transfer but you have to sit a year.

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It's racist. If Homie has to sit a year, Whitey's just holding him down.

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This is good for programs like Alabama and blue-chip prospects who will have dozens of offers. For the vast majority of programs and players, this is going to work out very poorly for them

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Alabama has taken very few transfers under Saban, mainly because they just don't have room for them. Guys like Jake Coker and Landon Dickerson are rare exceptions (and ironically both transferred from FSU).

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the same year as fields we had another guy, also transferring from UGA (luke ford), want to tranfser back to his home state to be closer to his ailing grandfather. He was denied. Fields didn't get enough PT as a true freshman as he would have liked and was granted. It's a fricking sham.

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And there's the reason for the change. No matter what if you stuck with the wavier system someone was always going to be screwed in the eyes of many. The NCAA is now just saying "go ahead and transfer for whatever reason, but be careful because if you use it to early you are going to have to sit later"