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New NCAA transfer rules give wrestlers upper hand

TDR Editor’s Notes; Will have to wait to see how this impacts college wrestling. On one hand it is good in giving the athlete some flexibility in pursuing their education. Especially when they are recruited by one coach and attend the school due to the potential of working and learning with that coach but the coach leaves that school. Yet it would be negative for the sport and athletes if it leads to rapid, random jumping around like so many frogs.
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NCAA Division I wrestlers will now be able to transfer without the permission of their current coach or university, thanks to new rules approved by the NCAA this week, to go into effect Oct. 15. The NCAA Division I Council approved a proposal that installs a “notification of transfer” model which not only allows wrestlers and other athletes to leave one school for another more easily, but also requires the school to enter the athlete’s name in a national transfer database within two business days. Once the wrestler’s name is in the database, any coach can contact that wrestler. Prior to this rule change, wrestlers had to receive permission from their current school to be contacted by another school before they could receive another scholarship. One major exception to this new rule: a conference can install stricter rules that would supersede this new NCAA procedure. Rest of the story at http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/20264

June 15, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized