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A proposed rule aimed at restricting the movement of graduate transfer athletes by levying penalties on the colleges that accepted them was voted down on Friday by the N.C.A.A. Division I Council.
The proposal, which applied only to football and men’s and women’s basketball, would have docked teams a scholarship for an additional year if a graduate transfer did not earn his or her secondary degree within one year — even though most graduate degrees take two years to complete. The loss of an additional year’s scholarship was meant to discourage colleges from accepting graduate transfers.