Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss the NCAA Division I council’s recommendation to drop the one-time transfer limit, and debate how it will affect the college football landscape moving forward.
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DAN WETZEL: The one thing I cannot stand about, I– not stand, but I disagree with it– that’s gone on is the transfer portal. I don’t think you should be able to transfer without sitting out a year because I do think there is a– there has to be a– this is a product and everyone benefits by the product.
It is not a punishment to spend one year extra at college and getting free room and board, tuition, education, training, all those things. So I think they should still have– they should never have gone away from having to sit a year. The coaches abused it.
PAT FORDE: Totally.
DAN WETZEL: The athletic directors abused it. They started saying you couldn’t transfer in conference. What do we have, that one, was Mike Gundy had like 37 schools on a quarterback? In Miami, he used to try to block everybody in state and everybody in the Southeast.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. This is now, they’re slaughtered. And now, they’re recommending unlimited transfers, no penalty ever.
PAT FORDE: Yeah.
DAN WETZEL: Transfer four straight years.
PAT FORDE: I was fine with the one-time transfer exemption. First of all, you could already do it in every other sport, so why football, basketball? Had to be different. So I was fine with the one-time transfer and then you just say, no waivers, no nothing, sorry. Next time if you want to transfer, you have to sit out.
We are not gonna establish a committee to listen to your sob story about why you need to be immediately eligible or any of that. You’re not even gonna be able to try making up a lie for why you need to play right away when you need to be back home, even though, really if you got like a sick relative, spend that time with the relative as opposed to practicing and playing.
However, now, yeah, we’ve got this proposal where apparently just transfer at will on an annual basis, which I think would be disastrous. We’ve already seen it. I mean, the one-time transfer rule has already been trampled. But if you just allow this completely wide open, that’s free agency, that’s a problem.
And it’s a problem for everybody involved because like the players, your academics are going to be a disaster. And I know they’ve tried to set up academic progress and you have to be able…