Student athletes wanting to get an immediate waiver of eligibility by the NCAA, following a transfer, is about to get much more difficult.
USA TODAY’s Dan Wolken reported Wednesday the NCAA Division I Council is expected to approve a package of new guidelines that will make it more difficult for college football and basketball players who transfer to receive immediate eligibility.
Through a document Wolken obtained from the NCAA, the council is scheduled to meet Wednesday and review the new guidelines. The updated language, according to Wolken, appears to narrow the circumstances in which student athletes should be given waivers and raises the documentation requirements to obtain them.