MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – This week the NCAA Division I council updated the language of its rules about the waiver process for student-athletes entering the transfer portal. The portal debuted last fall as a way to streamline the process for athletes transferring between schools.
After some head-scratching decisions regarding immediate eligibility for players who were supposed to sit out a year – quarterback Tate Martell is the poster boy after leaving Ohio State for Miami because he was going to lose his starting job to fellow immediately eligible transfer Justin Fields – the council clearly tried to tap the brakes.