This could spur a ton of player movement.
The transfer market in college athletics already has a strong odor of free agency to it, and one new proposal to transfer rules — discussed by the NCAA’s Transformation Committee and formally endorsed on Wednesday by the Division I council — could in effect make college athletes into free agents on a year-to-year basis.
The plan, as the NCAA laid out in a lengthy press release on Wednesday, would effectively do away with student-athletes having to request waivers to play immediately after their second transfers — essentially guaranteeing immediate eligibility even after their first time (as part of the NCAA’s already-instituted one-time transfer rule with no repercussions).