Report: NCAA one-time transfer waiver unlikely to be delayed, set to be implemented for 2020 season
For the second time in recent weeks, a report is out claiming that the NCAA’s upcoming vote on the one-time transfer waiver is expected to pass and that it will take effect immediately for the 2020 season.
Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball was the first to report this news and with the NCAA committee meeting on Friday to discuss the subject, Ralph Russo of the Associated Press is now reporting that the waiver will go into effect immediately if passed.
It’s worth noting that the actual vote by the NCAA isn’t expected to come until May, while the NCAA committee set up to discuss the topic is meeting on Friday.
The way current NCAA rules are set up, all undergraduate transfer are forced to sit out a season unless they are given a hardship waiver. After being bombarded with waiver requests in recent seasons, the NCAA is hoping to elevate those issues with this one-time waiver exception.
This waiver would allow athletes the opportunity to transfer once during their career without having to sit out a season. While not official, it’s expected that athletes that seek a second transfer as undergraduates would be forced to sit out a season.
Notable players around the SEC that would become immediately eligible should this measure pass include Florida receiver Justin Shorter and running back Lorenzo Lingard, Kentucky quarterback Joey Gatewood, Ole Miss safety Otis Reese, Tennessee offensive lineman Cade Mays.
I think for undergrads one time no penalty except the school that accepts them must pay back the university they are running out on for the value of the scholarship…
Payback for the value of the scholarship?? That’s utterly ridiculous!! The players aren’t “employees” or NFL restricted free agents!! They’re “Student-Athletes” and not available to “pay-for-play”.
Unless that changes, they should be treated like regular students and their education/school choice is nobody’s business.
Sounds like they’re unrestricted free agents now, or about to be…
If I commit to buy a car for 36 to 48 months I wonder if I can just keep it if I decide to buy a different car?
CFB players are STUDENT-Athletes!! They’re not a commodity to be bought and sold!
If a scholarship is such a superior trade off for playing football, why do people get twisted in knots at the thought of a kid walking away from one??
The relationship between schools and Student-Athletes is not the same as you and the bank. It’s also not the same as somebody flipping burgers or turning wrenches as employees.
I humbly disagree. They are ATHLETE-students, if it weren’t for the athlete part AND for the most of them a mid level gpa there would be no FREE RIDE…yes, they are commodities…
Do away with football they all pay their own way just like we not so lucky or skilled did, imho of course
Well that’s your opinion about their status. The NCAA says they’re Student-Athletes. Conf presidents say they’re Student-Athletes. School presidents say they’re Student-Athletes. Coaches say they’re Student Athletes. But I guess your opinion out weighs theirs??
I guarantee you every CFB scholarship athlete would gladly give up their scholarships and pay their own way………..in exchange for receiving a small % of the revenue they generate! Deal??
It’s not about my “opinion” outweighing anyone’s. That’s the great thing about opinions, they are just that…neither right nor wrong, just how I feel about it…now guarantees on the other hand should be supported by fact, which is quite different than opinions…no way you can no if a zero star athlete at App St would prefer a couple of bucks vs a college education in my opinion. And what about baseball, soccer, volleyball, golf, field hockey scholarship athlete-students, do they get a cut too?
It is just your opinion vs whats known. That’s a fact!
And YES I can guarantee you a SCHOLARSHIP athlete would give up their scholarship for fair wages. Show me a 0 star scholarship athlete and I’ll say them too. Fact is there aren’t many if any 0 star athletes on scholarship in CFB!!
Know why?? Because the players would UNIONIZE and NEGOTIATE their fair share of revenue. Even your non-existent 0 Star player would benefit!
Also, this article applies to CFB players. Stay on topic man! I don’t see you over on articles about the swim-team, track team, baseball tm, bb tm, or golf tm fuming over their potential choice to go to another school! Why is that???? Never mind……
Again I hate to poor cold water on your parade but my opinion isn’t based on what’s known, it is simply just my opinion that you simply cannot know that every single athlete-student would gladly give up their free ride scholarship for a small revenue stipend until they are able to compare the cost of schooling versus amount of stipend…imho of course. The only way you can change your opinion into a fact is if you ask EVERY athlete-student and they all say yes, until then, sorry, just opinion.
BTW I’ve seen many basketball players and a few baseball players transfer recently, how about you?
Don’t try to change the argument dumb azz! Your Opinion is that CFB players aren’t Student-Athletes! I said every authority in CFB says they are yet YOU insist they aren’t! Your Opinion is WRONG!!
The part of CFB players scholarships is where you suggest they should be taken away and have them pay their own way like everyone else. I say if you take away the scholarships, the players currently on scholarships and future players good enough to get them would gladly take take if you allow them to negotiate a portion of the profits they generate! Just 5% would equate to every current scholarship player getting roughly $160K per yr! That would more than replace a scholarship. But they could negotiate much more than 5%! So yea, your Opinion that a scholarship is more than what scholarship-athletes could make on the open market is also wrong. I’m not for paying players but they’d better off being paid, as opposed to your opinion. Now take your butt-hurt self on.
What up with name calling? Take a breath, it’ll be okay…
By your numbers that would be 13,600,000 per team based on the current allowable 85 scholarships per team, very interesting, how many teams do you propose paying their athlete-students? If I recall there are 23 major mid major conferences plus independent teams…
Btw opinions cannot be wrong…or right. They can just be opinions
Opinions may not be able to be right or wrong, but they can be valid or invalid!
For the record, your Opinion that CFB players are NOT student-athletes is WRONG!
Your Opinion that scholarship athletes would not accept fair wages for their play vs a scholarship lacks validity given the 100s of millions being generated in CFB and the limited time of scholarship athletes eligible to get paid.
We should NOT pay players for play. People should NOT idiotically act like a scholarship is equal return for the revenue being generated.
Thanks for not name calling this time. And please Quit moving the goal posts will ya?
Again I ask, by your numbers that would be 13.6Million per team based on the current allowable 85 scholarships per team, how many teams do you propose paying their athlete-students? All of them? The ones that are making money only?
And be clear on this, no one said a scholarship is equal return for revenue, lucky for UGa and LSU the revenue is hugely positive, for the majority of universities in smaller conferences its a losing proposition if not for the big boy conferences paying them to come play Ooc games. Imho some athlete-students a scholarship is a huge underpayment but for the majority of college athlete-students it’s a really good deal.
Here are some raw Factual numbers for you and maybe you’ll go away after this. If not you obviously just like howling at the moon and I’m done with you cause you don’t deal in facts.
First, CFB scholarship athletes ARE “Student-Athletes”! K?
The average scholarship for a D1 school is $36K. If you assume max amount of athletes on scholarships, 85, that’s $3M per yr. You said not all CFB scholarship athletes would rather have PAY over scholarships! I said if they negotiate to get just 5% of revenue, they’d take it!
The top D1 schools generate over $100M. So 5% of $100M is $5M! Spread out over 85 scholarship athletes, that’s $59K per year! The average scholarship is $36k. They’d pocket money. But 5% is peanuts. NFL players get 49%! I think the athletes could easily get 15 or 20%!
Even if you take the bottom 3 D1 CFB revenue schools (Duke, Vandy, Wake Forest), they average $36M. Just 15% equals $5.4M. CFB scholarship athletes at those schools make out the same as those listed above.
So, again!………CFB players are “Student Athletes”, and your opposite opinion is not true.
My opinion that scholarship athletes would make out better if they could negotiate their pay AFTER you yank their scholarships as YOU suggest above has more validity than your opinion they would not.
Not sure what you’re arguing? CFB players ARE “student-athletes”!!
If you yank their scholarship and let them negotiate a salary in exchange, they’d make out! I know you want to change the argument because you lose on both points but it’s not working. I’m not for paying players and I didn’t bring it up. After you suggested yanking scholarships, I said players would make out if they could negotiate instead. The only one moving goalposts is you. Go back and read the original posts. Or prove your ignorance and keep posting…
The revenue is one thing, how much is profit? Negotiating 5 percent of profit would have netted University of Texas football scholarship athlete-students a whopping 4,117 dollars per player, according to a study I read…why Texas you ask, because as I’m sure you’re aware Texas is always near or atop the revenue rankings every year…
The report I read stated that the athletic department brought in $214.8 million and nearly used it all, totaling $207.0 million of expenses. Texas spent school records of $64.4 million on coaching staffs and $43.2 on facilities alone…
Based on those numbers I’m sorry but I gotta stick with my original opinion, not that it is right or wrong mind you…
I think for undergrads one time no penalty except the school that accepts them must pay back the university they are running out on for the value of the scholarship…
At least you tried to use data this time but you’re still wrong! Did you know that CFB Athletic Departments are”NON-PROFITS”??
That means they give out pretty much all of the money they bring in! What does TX spend $200M on? They give the rest away to be used for other purposes. The measly $3M it would take to pay a stipend for 85 scholarship athletes would come from the Athletic budget before they give the rest away!
Nice try but you still fail!
After they fund the Athletics department they give the rest away…….
The point is you can’t use “profits” after expenses! The Stipend would be an expense before giving the rest away. And $3M from $214M per yr is a small fraction. Easily doable.
Your figures keep glossing over the fact that of the hundreds of Div 1 schools with football teams most have total athletic budgets less than the stipend pot you proposed, as an example from 2006-2011 the athletics revenue for the University of Alabama was $124,498,616. During that same period, the athletics revenue for Alabama State University was $10,614,081. Both are Division I schools. Thats 2m a year avg for Alabama State. In Georgia the Leghumpers budget may be well north of 100m but UT buster Ga State has one 10 times less. While Your math looks fair for top tier programs the majority would have to close operations. And what do we oay the 30 or so walk ons and partial scholarship athlete students each team has on their practice squad who are integral to a team’s success? Do they get beat up by the elite athlete-students for free?
BTW I am ALL FOR athlete-students being able to ptofit from 3rd party endorsements
^profit