MVC notebook: Transfer rule change has coaches worried

Buy Now MiKyle McIntosh drives down the court for Illinois State against Northern Iowa last season. McIntosh went to Oregon this season as a graduate transfer. The NCAA reportedly will meet soon to allow undergraduate student-athletes to transfer without sitting out a year if they attain a certain grade-point average.

DAVID PROEBER, THE PANTAGRAPH NORMAL — The thought of the NCAA allowing transfers to play immediately without sitting out a year has coaches in mid-major conferences such as the Missouri Valley extremely nervous.

Some more so than others.

"I'm telling you right now, this is done if this rule goes through," said Southern Illinois' Barry Hinson during Monday's MVC coaches…