If coaches can "transfer" by moving on to new jobs, why can't students? This question pops up often for college football. Karen left UNT with kids she recruited still had to go to UNT because they signed their LOI. Also, we certainly didn't turn away the twins or Jatarie White as transfers.
BTW, there is one case where we had a freshman, Rachel Rentschler 2007-2008 (
http://www.texassports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=27&path=wbball), who was a pretty decent player her first year. She transfered after the 2007-2008 season. This was during Coach G's first year. She transferred to TCU and I was confused to see that she immediately played that next year (2008-2009) without sitting out (
http://www.gofrogs.com/sports/w-baskbl/archive/061309aaa.html)
Curious, I dug into the NCAA bylaws and there is an exception to the 1-year rule. If the coach of the original school gives permission to the transfer student, they do not have to sit out one year at the landing school. I suppose there may have been a handshake deal between Goestenkors and Rentschler that if the first year didn't work out (she was recruited by Jody), then she would be allowed to transfer and play immediately. I downloaded the stats PDF and saw she played in all 31 games of the 2008-2009 season.
I was sad because Rentschler had a sweet 3-point shot.
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