On Wednesday, the NCAA approved legislation that could make it more difficult for football and basketball players to obtain a waiver and play immediately after transferring. The NCAA’s Division I council met in Indianapolis to update the “guidelines and directives, which in many cases appear to specify and narrow the circumstances in which athletes should be given waivers and raise the documentation requirements to obtain them,” according to USA Today.
In recent years, more players have received waivers to play immediately after transferring but those decisions have seemingly come at random with little rhyme or reason behind them.