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The Southeastern Conference voted Friday to allow graduate students to transfer immediately among its member schools, eliminating the one year so-called “residency” requirement that previously stood in place.
Additionally, the SEC will allow any student-athlete at a school that has been placed on a postseason ban to transfer immediately within the conference.
The NCAA is currently considering whether to end the process of schools and coaches blocking an athletes from transferring or dictating where they may go. Under the NCAA proposal, schools would be free to contact athletes when they notify their current coaches, along with stricter tampering rules and the creation of an NCAA-wide database which lists athletes who could be recruited.
As it stands now, SEC schools may still block intra-conference transfers. But Sankey said “those rules may change” under the new NCAA transfer model.