SEC considering restoring archaic transfer policy
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Here we go again. The drama just does not stop. It’s a cycle that never seems to end. Rules get made, and then they change… and then they revert back.
According to sources telling On3, the SEC is considering restoring a transfer policy that would require intraconference athletes to sit out a year before playing for another conference school.
Okay, for real, why does it matter if an athlete transfers in-conference or not? Seriously, why does it matter? If we’re going to let athletes transfer, why does it matter if they transfer to a school that’s also in the conference? Not only is that ridiculous, but it would likely take talent away from the SEC.
This all started in 2021, when the NCAA allowed players to transfer one time without penalty, before that changed in 2024 to allow multiple transfers without penalty. The SEC followed suit in 2021, which included players being able to transfer within the conference without penalty.
Then there’s this:
One SEC school source raised the concern to On3 that restoring the transfer policy would put SEC schools at a competitive disadvantage by not being able to add talent from the conference in the portal.
You think?
I also found this interesting:
The college football transfer portal does not officially open until January, but general managers and agents told On3 they expect retention talks to begin in earnest in the next two to four weeks. When the regular season wraps up at the end of November, programs will know the status of nearly everyone on their roster and which players are expected to enter the portal.
“We’re running into this crazy world where if I don’t talk to a guy’s agent on the bye week, they’re saying, ‘You didn’t want to get him back,’” an SEC front-office staffer recently told On3. “And I’m like, ‘How is that possible? No, I just didn’t want to distract him in the middle of the season.’ It’s coming, it’s coming soon.”
What a world we live in. And good on the front-office staffer for not wanting to distract a player during the bye week.
Kentucky has players including Nic Anderson, Jordan Castell, Aaron Gates, Lance Heard, and Olaus Allen who transferred from SEC schools this past offseason. Imagine what this team would look like right now without those guys.
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