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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1386179, member: 127"]
A few question. Aren't most graduate programs more than a year? If colleges will have to guarantee 2 years of scholarship for a players' graduate degree, how is this bad unless that isn't the real goal? Will programs or players be as excited about a grad transfer with the 2 year stipulation? Why not?

Since few players complete their degrees in 3 years (unlike Rak in basketball), these transfer grads are mostly redshirt players, either purposely held out of competition or injured - could it effect whether programs would redshirt a player, encourage summer classes, give student athletes preference when registering for classes? (how many student athletes gets closed out of needed classes vs a regular student?)If we're looking at the good of all players, how do transfer grads effect the program players including seniors being over-recruited? I'd think their welfare would or should count too somehow. I just have lots of questions.

I would think that basketball with only 5 starters would be most effected by grad transfers. In basketball the bigger programs seem to covet the experienced mid major transfer grads.

I can understand a graduated bench player at a major football school who's been "stockpiled" wanting the possibility of actually playing at maybe a mid major after graduating? Sadly every rule, no matter how well intentioned, there will be some people who will game and manipulate it.
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