"I don't think anything's changed," Penn State football coach James Franklin said. While those are all real concerns, it has been apparent for several years this was coming and coaches have already been operating in this new reality of increased player freedom. ![]() Rosters turning over quicker than coaches can keep up. Power programs poaching players from small schools. It's a big change, a long time coming and it has some in college sports, especially football, worried about the potential for unintended consequences: Fewer scholarships available to high school recruits. The so-called one-time exception that has been available to athletes in most college sports for years will now also be available to football, men's and women's basketball, men's ice hockey and baseball players who transfer from one Division I school to another. ![]() The NCAA made it official Thursday, announcing the Division I Council had voted to approve a plan that will allow all college athletes to transfer one time as an undergraduate without having to sit out a season. I don't think we'd take an offensive lineman in the portal right now." "The bottom line is whomever we took would have to be a D-lineman or someone with the ball in his hands. "We might take a tight end," Pittman said. ![]() As spring practice winds down, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman sees some potential holes in his roster.Īrkansas didn't use the maximum 25 scholarships this year on its incoming recruits, so it has a few left over to hit the transfer market, where there is no longer any question about whether athletes who switch schools will be immediately eligible to compete.
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