New One-Time 2025 Transfer Portal Period

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I think you are.

I think the NCAA is just rolling the 'no roster limit if certain criteria are met' rule forward a year by use of this window.

I think the same criteria still applies to any player looking to transfer in this window in the fact that they would not have been guaranteed a roster spot at the current school for this coming season.

Could be interesting to see if any NIL names pop up here.
 
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HeavenUniversity said:
Am I correct that this means the roster limits don’t really apply this year if School B picks up a kid from School A ?

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BREAKING: NCAA Allows One-Time Transfer Portal Window

The Arizona State Sun Devils could potentially be impacted by this decision.
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Well now

Ahead of the final settlement being approved, many schools began cutting athletes to get under the roster limits. However, the judge required an amendment to the settlement before it was approved in an attempt to protect those athletes.

As a result, any current college athletes cut from teams because of roster limits, in addition to any recruits with offers pulled, will be labeled as a “Designated Student Athlete.” DSAs will not count against roster limits at their original institution or any institution where they transfer. They will remain DSAs for the remainder of their collegiate eligibility.

An athlete is eligible to be placed on a DSA list if he/she
(1) would have been removed from the school's 2025-26 roster due to new roster limits;
(2) was an eligible member of a team in 2024-25;
(3) was recruited & assured by a school of a 2025-26 roster spot."

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New Roster Limits Set by House v. NCAA

Division I schools opting into the House settlement will no longer have scholarship limits and can fully fund scholarships up to the new roster limits.
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Well Im 100% for a one-time no penalty transfer rule but I dont understand the timing. July7th - August 5th?? Thats way too close to fall camp to be disrupting rosters that way! This window should open the day after the National Championship game, and close after 31 days. National Signing Day should take place 2 weeks following the closing of the transfer portal and the NCAA should eliminate early signing period. Make NSD an event once again! After NSD, the rosters are what they are until the following year's transfer portal window opens.

Personally I would add another caveat to the transfer rule. Players can only transfer if they have spent a minimum of two years at their original school. This would hopefully help quell rash decisions made by young, impulsive players and help protect the school's heavy investments into these athletes.
 
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In my lifetime, I have seen boxing, bowling, baseball, tennis, and NASCAR lose massive amounts of fans. If the people running ( or not running) college sports think this can’t happen to college football and basketball, they aren’t too bright. The college football playoffs are not getting the ratings they hoped for and if you don’t have the Cinderella in March Madness, UMBC/George Mason/Saint Peter’s, etc. interest will drop. Not sure if this is accurate, but I think I read only 5 percent of college grads attended Power Four schools. —And on a side note, are any of these kids or their handlers actually interested in getting a degree as they hop between two, three, or four colleges?
 
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RockyTopTexas said:
I miss the old college football.. where our recruiting class mattered. Haven’t cared about a recruit since Jaylen McCollough.. what was that 2017? It honestly sucks
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That is definitely something I've noticed as well. I used to follow every recruiting cycle closely, but now? Why bother? With transfers and the portal they come and go by season. Even the "boom!" recruiting posts feel silly now. More than silly - almost foolish, or at the very least, unnecessary. I get the feeling. I spent years watching recruiting, especially back in the 1990s on Gridscape, and the 2000s when Rivals first crept on the scene. But now? It feels like misplaced energy a lot of the time. They will come, and they will go.
 
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Voltopia said:
That is definitely something I've noticed as well. I used to follow every recruiting cycle closely, but now? Why bother? With transfers and the portal they come and go by season. Even the "boom!" recruiting posts feel silly now. More than silly - almost foolish, or at the very least, unnecessary. I get the feeling. I spent years watching recruiting, especially back in the 1990s on Gridscape, and the 2000s when Rivals first crept on the scene. But now? It feels like misplaced energy a lot of the time. They will come, and they will go.
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Yep. It has become like minor league baseball. I go see it, but I couldnt tell you who the hell the guys on the team are.
 
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Voltopia said:
That is definitely something I've noticed as well. I used to follow every recruiting cycle closely, but now? Why bother? With transfers and the portal they come and go by season. Even the "boom!" recruiting posts feel silly now. More than silly - almost foolish, or at the very least, unnecessary. I get the feeling. I spent years watching recruiting, especially back in the 1990s on Gridscape, and the 2000s when Rivals first crept on the scene. But now? It feels like misplaced energy a lot of the time. They will come, and they will go.
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1000 % buddy… it’s ruined and I’m glad you see it too. Too many orange glasses in the forum
 
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Voltopia said:
That is definitely something I've noticed as well. I used to follow every recruiting cycle closely, but now? Why bother? With transfers and the portal they come and go by season. Even the "boom!" recruiting posts feel silly now. More than silly - almost foolish, or at the very least, unnecessary. I get the feeling. I spent years watching recruiting, especially back in the 1990s on Gridscape, and the 2000s when Rivals first crept on the scene. But now? It feels like misplaced energy a lot of the time. They will come, and they will go.
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My "curmudgeon" side is showing , but give me days of 10-team SEC, BCS , no N.I.L. or transfer portal, etc. Y'all can have this crapola!
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Brave Volunteer said:
Well Im 100% for a one-time no penalty transfer rule but I dont understand the timing. July7th - August 5th?? Thats way too close to fall camp to be disrupting rosters that way! This window should open the day after the National Championship game, and close after 31 days. National Signing Day should take place 2 weeks following the closing of the transfer portal and the NCAA should eliminate early signing period. Make NSD an event once again! After NSD, the rosters are what they are until the following year's transfer portal window opens.

Personally I would add another caveat to the transfer rule. Players can only transfer if they have spent a minimum of two years at their original school. This would hopefully help quell rash decisions made by young, impulsive players and help protect the school's heavy investments into these athletes.
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Stop making sense.
 
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If I read this correctly, the school needs to designate the player as a DSA not the student. So it would mean the school is saying we don’t have a roster spot for the student. So it should not have much of an impact for the P5 schools, but the mid majors could pick up kids. Am I reading it correctly?
 
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VolFanNC09 said:
If I read this correctly, the school needs to designate the player as a DSA not the student. So it would mean the school is saying we don’t have a roster spot for the student. So it should not have much of an impact for the P5 schools, but the mid majors could pick up kids. Am I reading it correctly?
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I think this is the closest reading of what's going on. House left schools in the spot of having to cap rosters at 105, I think, and this one time portal lets those guys who are now "out of a job" because of House move to another school.

Not knowing about law but my gut check says this portal was dreamed up to try to keep the NCAA from getting sued over the House settlement by those players who had a spot but essentially got axed from teams by the House settlement roster limits.

I might have that part wrong but this smells a little like "please don't sue us, we'll let you have a free transfer if your team cuts you."
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Well Im 100% for a one-time no penalty transfer rule but I dont understand the timing. July7th - August 5th?? Thats way too close to fall camp to be disrupting rosters that way! This window should open the day after the National Championship game, and close after 31 days. National Signing Day should take place 2 weeks following the closing of the transfer portal and the NCAA should eliminate early signing period. Make NSD an event once again! After NSD, the rosters are what they are until the following year's transfer portal window opens.

Personally I would add another caveat to the transfer rule. Players can only transfer if they have spent a minimum of two years at their original school. This would hopefully help quell rash decisions made by young, impulsive players and help protect the school's heavy investments into these athletes.
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Athletes have the right to transfer as many times as they wish, just like any other student. Ohio vs NCAA governs this, not the NCAA.
 
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S.C. OrangeMan said:
Athletes have the right to transfer as many times as they wish, just like any other student.Ohio vs NCAA governs this, not the NCAA.
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But the problem is athletes arent like any other student. These schools invest a LOT of money in these athletes with their recruiting, training, lodging, education, nutrition, and now they are straight up paying them! I see no reason why there shouldn't be guardrails in place to protect the university's investments. They should have some rights in this deal too, not just the athletes.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
But the problem is athletes arent like any other student. These schools invest a LOT of money in these athletes with their recruiting, training, lodging, education, nutrition, and now they are straight up paying them! I see no reason why there shouldn't be guardrails in place to protect the university's investments. They should have some rights in this deal too, not just the athletes.
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When you put it that way, it sounds a lot like the schools invest in these individuals like a company invests in an employee.

Here's an idea: stop trying to treat them like employees while insisting they are just students and the school can negotiate with them like employees.

Otherwise, they're students first, as tradition says...... and we love tradition, right?...... and can transfer like any other student.

The schools created all this huge money investment in the athletes, facilities, training, nutrition, etc not the athletes. The school can stop investing millions and millions in athletics any time they wish.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
But the problem is athletes arent like any other student. These schools invest a LOT of money in these athletes with their recruiting, training, lodging, education, nutrition, and now they are straight up paying them! I see no reason why there shouldn't be guardrails in place to protect the university's investments. They should have some rights in this deal too, not just the athletes.
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As long as the athletes must be students, it is illegal to discriminate against them for being athletes. Costs don't matter in the eyes of the law.
 
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S.C. OrangeMan said:
As long as the athletes must be students, it is illegal to discriminate against them for being athletes. Costs don't matter in the eyes of the law.
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Thats why I do believe collective bargaining is coming and these athletes will be contract employees, not students.
 
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