I found this on another board which was in response to a question about football players transferring:
"Academic year in residence: Research shows that student-athletes who remain at one college or university throughout their academic careers graduate at higher rates than those who transfer. To encourage an academic focus, the NCAA requires Division I student-athletes who transfer from a two-year school and do not meet transfer requirements or transfer from one four-year school to another four-year school to spend one academic year in residence before being eligible to play There are exceptions to the rule:
If the student-athlete has never transferred before from a four-year school and meets academic requirements, that student-athlete might be able to use the one-time transfer exception (except in baseball, basketball, men’s ice hockey or football).
If the first school dropped the sport of the affected student-athlete
If the student-athlete never has been recruited, received an athletics scholarship or practiced beyond a 14-consecutive day period at any school or participated in competition before transferring
If the student-athlete returns to the first school without participating at the second school
If the student-athlete did not practice or play in his or her sport for two years
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How I read this:
A walk-on can transfer without a sitout year if he redshirted. E.g., a kid walks on to UofM, redshirts his frosh year: He can transfer to another school without sitting out.
A player can transfer to his previous school (Morrow, that means EMU for you
).
Interesting these rules are only for a few sports (e.g., FB, hoops, ice hockey and baseball).
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Transfer Rules (Reference)
