WVSPORTS.COM Holgorsen discusses transfers, changes to rules
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The free transfer rule would take power from coaches and give it to the players.
Requiring student-athletes to sit out of competition for a year after transferring encourages them to make decisions motivated by academics as well as athletics. Most student-athletes who are not eligible to compete immediately benefit from a year to adjust to their new school and focus on their classes.
Coaches would be constantly recruiting and not mentoring the players they have in a program. This would lead to constant poaching and the business of instant gratification instead of growth and development. If players are allowed to just up and transfer wherever, they’ll leave their teams all the time, and college sports will become a mess of roster changes where programs can’t build continuity over time. Great players at lesser teams will leave for the top preseason contenders every year.
The residence rule is a barrier to transfers. Removing it would lead to more. But predictions of a free-for-all seem to miss that other NCAA rules still exist. Conferences can make their own policies that go further than whatever the NCAA says.
The Transfer Working Group already announced it wants to do away with the rule that lets teams block players from transferring altogether. Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder tried to block a player from 35 different schools in 2017.
Requiring student-athletes to sit out of competition for a year after transferring encourages them to make decisions motivated by academics as well as athletics. Most student-athletes who are not eligible to compete immediately benefit from a year to adjust to their new school and focus on their classes.
Coaches would be constantly recruiting and not mentoring the players they have in a program. This would lead to constant poaching and the business of instant gratification instead of growth and development. If players are allowed to just up and transfer wherever, they’ll leave their teams all the time, and college sports will become a mess of roster changes where programs can’t build continuity over time. Great players at lesser teams will leave for the top preseason contenders every year.
The residence rule is a barrier to transfers. Removing it would lead to more. But predictions of a free-for-all seem to miss that other NCAA rules still exist. Conferences can make their own policies that go further than whatever the NCAA says.
The Transfer Working Group already announced it wants to do away with the rule that lets teams block players from transferring altogether. Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder tried to block a player from 35 different schools in 2017.
