The NCAA’s one-time transfer rule: Shane Lyons said “We feel it has to be done for roster management purposes”

NCAA

All Division I student-athletes will have a one-time opportunity to transfer and compete immediately beginning in the 2021-22 academic year

Jon Steinbrecher, Division I Council vice chair and Mid-American Conference commissioner

Allowing student-athletes a one-time opportunity to transfer and compete immediately provides a uniform, equitable and understandable approach that benefits all student-athletes

NCAA

Schools cannot object to schools to which a student-athlete wants to transfer. The waiver process will continue to be available for students who do not meet the criteria of the one-time transfer exception or who wish to transfer more than once.

Sam Pittman, Arkansas head coach

I think the one-time transfer is the key there, though. I don’t think it’s let’s transfer once a year. At some point you’ve got to stick and make it happen and make it work for you.

Shane Lyons, West Virginia athletic director and Division I Council member

We feel it has to be done for roster management purposes

John Grass, Jacksonville State head football coach

The Power 5s are going to have FCS big boards and mid-major big boards. It’s a trickle-down effect.

P.J. Fleck, Minnesota head coach

You’ll see less and less people signing 25 high school kids

Nick Saban, Alabama head coach

I don't think we're going to have our best players on our team want to leave Alabama

James Franklin, Penn State head coach

I don’t think anything’s changed

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors ratified the adoption of a measure that will allow athletes in all sports to transfer once without sitting a season, the NCAA announced Wednesday.

Associated Press

The board took the last step to make the historic rule change official and the NCAA clarified some of the details in a news release. The one-time exception had been previously available to some athletes, just not those in football, basketball, baseball and men's ice hockey.