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Understand changes to student‐athlete transfer process
Author(s) -
O'Brien Timothy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
campus legal advisor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-6239
pISSN - 1531-3999
DOI - 10.1002/cala.40067
Subject(s) - scrutiny , athletes , psychology , process (computing) , medical education , mathematics education , applied psychology , physical therapy , computer science , medicine , political science , law , operating system
The student‐athlete transfer process has been under scrutiny from student‐athletes, family members, coaches, and administrators for some time. The inherent unfairness associated with student‐athletes being required to stay at the same schools while the head coaches who recruited them moved elsewhere has obviously been a particular concern. Similarly, there had been widely publicized cases of student‐athletes wanting to transfer for compelling personal and other reasons while coaches and schools withheld the approval needed to release the student‐athletes and to allow them to move on. Finally, the idea of a student‐athlete being required to sit out a year after transferring seemed inherently unfair because regular students can freely move from school to school without any restrictions.