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Giger: This new transfer rule will ruin college athletics

ALTOONA, Pa. -- Get off my lawn!!!! That's right, I'm going to play the role of angry old man here, because what I'm writing about makes me very angry as a lifelong fan of college athletics.

I didn't totally care for the rule change a couple of years ago that allowed college football and basketball players the ability to transfer and play immediately somewhere else. Forcing transfers to sit out a year served as a good deterrent, I always felt, and led to at least some kind of stability with college rosters.

But hey, I get it.