The NCAA’s Leadership Council decided Thursday to shelf the chance to alter any transfer rules.
On Thursday, the NCAA’s Leadership Council decided not to adopt but to continue to consider a proposal that would prevent transferring athletes from applying for and receiving waivers to play immediately at another school. All transfers would have been required to sit out a year.
The recommendation, proposed by the NCAA’s transfer issue subcommittee, would have given transfers an opportunity to extend the traditional five-year period of eligibility by one year (which would mostly affect those who have been injured, redshirted or have previously transferred).
cbssports.com’s Matt Norlander:
NCAA data released in the past week stated that 39 of 62 undergrad basketball players were granted immediate eligibility after they presented a waiver with their reasoning for wanting to not sit out the custom redshirt year. That’s a 63-percent success rate. That number makes a lot of people skeptical, and is the reason why there’s a push for reform.
The waiver issue could be revisited in April when the next leadership council meeting is scheduled.
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