The NCAA’s Division I Council passed legislation on Wednesday both affecting the redshirt regulations and altering transfer rules for student athletes.
Starting this season, coaches can no longer have a say on where their players transfer, although conferences will still obtain power to install transfer restrictions and block transferring within the conference. Still, this is a major milestone for the student athlete when there have been countless stories, including at OSU with former quarterback Wes Lunt, where the school has heavily limited the player’s prospective transfer destinations. Under the new “notification-of-transfer” model, players will request a transfer and the university will be required to enter their name into a database within two business days, at which time other coaches and schools are free to contact the player.