made it easier for players in all sports, even those who have not yet graduated, to transfer and play immediately. A new rule, which was approved by the N.C.A.A.’s Division I Council in April, allows for one unrestricted transfer per player, meaning transfers wouldn’t have to sit out a season or seek immediate eligibility through waivers after changing schools.
The rule change already prompted a mass exodus of men’s basketball players to the transfer portal.Ĭritics of the new rule argue that it allows players to walk away from a team instead of trying to improve their current circumstances.īarry Alvarez, the former Wisconsin football coach and athletic director, said he put the onus on the coaches in those situations.
“Am I in favor of overall transferring, an open transfer like that? Eh,” Alvarez said in a phone interview. He added: “When I was the athletic director, I told my coaches: ‘You recruit the players. You see what type of background they have, what type of players they are. And it’s your responsibility to build a rapport that they want to play for you. But there comes a time where the best interest of the young man is to go someplace else.’”Īlvarez said he thought Coan handled the situation with Wisconsin well, adding that it “worked out positively” for both Coan and the Badgers. In 2011, Russell Wilson, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback, took advantage of the graduate transfer rule when he switched to Wisconsin from North Carolina State. (Colorado drafted Wilson in the fourth round in 2010.) State, Wilson lost his starting job after missing the team’s spring practice to attend the Colorado Rockies’ spring training. “Russell’s a prime example,” said Alvarez, who was the Badgers’ athletic director when Wilson transferred to the program. They had a good young quarterback, and he made a decision to come here.
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