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As has been the expectation for months, the NCAA on Wednesday approved new legislation regarding transfer rules.
Yet the new regulations fell well short of the sweeping change being championed a little more fervently each school year.
The NCAA's Transfer Working Group, which includes Colorado athletic director Rick George, loosened some restrictions for student-athletes, eliminating the requirement of permission from their current school before being able to receive a scholarship from any new school.
Conferences still will have the flexibility to enforce their own intra-conference transfer rules.
The rule change is an attempt to eliminate the practice of coaches or other school administrators of restricting where a student-athlete can explore his or her new options.