Suppose you're a college football player and you want to transfer without having to sit out a year, what do you do?
You call grandma. You convince grandma she's very sick, even though she may be quite well. You then use grandma's supposed illness as an excuse to petition the NCAA for an immediate transfer without having to sit out a year under the current rule.
Hey, it's worked before.
But players may no longer need an excuse if a plan to change the waiver process is adopted by the NCAA. There's a big push -- proposed by Big Ten athletic directors and backed by the ACC -- to allow Division I football and basketball players to transfer one time without sitting out a season of competition.