CaribouJim
06-01-2012, 10:21 AM
...due to football playoff and also has a blurb in there on transfers:
In other news, Emmert said there has been no consensus on an overhaul of transfer rules.
Some administrators want to close loopholes that allow student-athletes to transfer without sitting out a year provided they have graduated from their previous institution, along with ending a waiver system for athletes to participate immediately for certain hardships.
"Some people think transfers are too restrictive, others think it's too easy, and some think it's just right," Emmert said. "There's a lot of things going on."
Emmert said it's a balancing act between supporting schools that have provided significant financial commitments to a student-athlete with the rights of the athlete, especially when regular students are able to transfer at will and coaches can leave freely for other jobs.
Emmert said that about 40 percent of men's basketball players are not a their original school at the end of their sophomore year, and the instances of players transferring between four-year institutions is 10 or 11 percent - still a number that represents hundreds of players.
"You don't want a coach to do his recruiting by sitting on his couch and watching TV and saying, `Oh, that kid looks unhappy sitting on the bench. I'm going to recruit him,"' Emmert said.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/31/ncaa-emmert-playoff.ap/index.html#ixzz1wYEXsrzi
In other news, Emmert said there has been no consensus on an overhaul of transfer rules.
Some administrators want to close loopholes that allow student-athletes to transfer without sitting out a year provided they have graduated from their previous institution, along with ending a waiver system for athletes to participate immediately for certain hardships.
"Some people think transfers are too restrictive, others think it's too easy, and some think it's just right," Emmert said. "There's a lot of things going on."
Emmert said it's a balancing act between supporting schools that have provided significant financial commitments to a student-athlete with the rights of the athlete, especially when regular students are able to transfer at will and coaches can leave freely for other jobs.
Emmert said that about 40 percent of men's basketball players are not a their original school at the end of their sophomore year, and the instances of players transferring between four-year institutions is 10 or 11 percent - still a number that represents hundreds of players.
"You don't want a coach to do his recruiting by sitting on his couch and watching TV and saying, `Oh, that kid looks unhappy sitting on the bench. I'm going to recruit him,"' Emmert said.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/31/ncaa-emmert-playoff.ap/index.html#ixzz1wYEXsrzi