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I'm trying to understand how the eligibility works. If you transfer as a scholarship player from another 4 year school, you lose a year. Would it be the same case if you were a walk on? Would you have to sit out a year or are the odds that a walk on would transfer pretty slim? If you're a JuCo player do you have to sit out a year or can you start playing right away? How many years do you get: two or three?

Get_Some_Ponies wrote:I'm trying to understand how the eligibility works. If you transfer as a scholarship player from another 4 year school, you lose a year. Would it be the same case if you were a walk on? Would you have to sit out a year or are the odds that a walk on would transfer pretty slim? If you're a JuCo player do you have to sit out a year or can you start playing right away? How many years do you get: two or three?

I will take a stab. If you were a walk on at another school, yes you have to sit a year. JUCO does not have to sit. Any time played in JUCO counts against eligiblity so if you were a 1 year JUCO you have 3 years, a 2 year JUCO has 2 years.

You have five years to play four. The clock starts the moment you step on any campus to play. If you move laterally (I-A to I-A), you have to sit a year. If you move up or down (I-AA to IA or Juco to any division or any division to IA and vice versa), you don't have to sit. There are some conference rules that affect that as well.

Correct. The walk on only sits if he was a Div 1A walk on going to a 1A school.

Get_Some_Ponies wrote:I'm trying to understand how the eligibility works. If you transfer as a scholarship player from another 4 year school, you lose a year. Would it be the same case if you were a walk on? Would you have to sit out a year or are the odds that a walk on would transfer pretty slim? If you're a JuCo player do you have to sit out a year or can you start playing right away? How many years do you get: two or three?

A walk-on can transfer and be eligible immediately to play.

Any player tranfserring from a lower division or from a two-year program is eligible to play right away.

How many years you have to play varies. A JUCO who was a non-qualifier out of HS normally will 3 years to play 2 left, but that is not always the case. They may have RSed a year, graduated early, graduated late, etc, etc.

A JUCO who qualified out of HS can transfer at any time and be ligible and the time left will depend upon how long they played, etc.

There are also qualifiers who enrolled at a major university and then lost eligibility because of grades and transferred to a JUCO to re-qualify. They usually can go back to their initial school as soon as the re-qualify under those schools guidelines. To transfer to another program they will need to obtain a 2-year degree or be forced to sit one-year after re-qualifying.

Finally, some conferences have a 2-year wait if you transfer within conference and players can appeal to the NCAA to waive certain transfer rules for OOC transfers.

HFvictory wrote:A walk-on can transfer and be eligible immediately to play.

I have been told many times this is not true. I would like an NCAA rule cited so I can know one way or the other for sure.

SMU Football Blog wrote:You have five years to play four. The clock starts the moment you step on any campus to play. If you move laterally (I-A to I-A), you have to sit a year. If you move up or down (I-AA to IA or Juco to any division or any division to IA and vice versa), you don't have to sit. There are some conference rules that affect that as well.

Actually, for Div 1, the clock starts when you enroll full time at any institution of higher learning after you complete your HS requirements. You do not have to play any sports or intend to play. Also, enrolling PT will not start the clock, but you are ineligible to compete unless a FT student.

In some of the lower divisions the clock starts when you play.