The NCAA announced a new transfer portal window for men’s and women’s basketball players on Wednesday.
The portal will now be open for a 15-day period starting the day after the championship game for each respective NCAA tournament concludes.
If a school chooses to make a change at head coach, an additional 15-day transfer period will open five days after the new head coach is either hired or publicly announced.
Per Wednesday’s announcement, a 15-day window will also open if a new head coach isn’t announced within 30 days of the previous head coach’s departure as long as the 31st day is after the NCAA tournament championship game.
It would be nice if basketball changed its redshirt rules to be closer to the football model.
Currently you burn your redshirt if you play one game. Football allows 4 games which is generally a third of the season. A similar rule for basketball might be 10 games. If this was the case, we might have been able to get Justin Kirby on the floor earlier to see what he could do.
I saw recently that D1 football coaches at their national convention this week have asked for further liberalization of the redshirt rule. They want to allow 9 games.
The reasoning is that In the NIL and transfer portal era, programs want more flexibility to get impact freshmen on the field early without fully committing their eligibility. It also aims to get players more connected to the school and engaged.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
I personally believe that a 50% rule on regular season games (post season would not count) makes sense. That would be 6 games in football and 16 in basketball (going to a 32 game regular season max next year).
Same rules for medical redshirt. This could give Ipsaro another year for the injury.
I think meddling with redshirt rules is just pushing food around the plate. Just get rid of redshirts all together. You have 5 years starting with your first NCAA season to play in the NCAAs. If you lose a substantial part of a season due to injury, you can apply for an extra year one time.
You can’t ask a coach to be thinking about an athlete’s last year of eligibility 5 years in advance with redshirting these days with the portal. You also get rid of a lot of these weird eligibility lawsuits if you just give a firm number of years.
That proposal ( 5 year of eligibility for all) was favored by a lot of coaches but was voted down at the AFCA conference. There were too many concerns about potential litigation in cases like Trinidad Chambliss. I believe the 9 game redshirt proposal was the compromise agreed to by the coaches.
