{"id":32384,"date":"2022-06-01T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alabama-proposes-change-to-sec-transfer-rules-will-it-pass\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:05:13","slug":"alabama-proposes-change-to-sec-transfer-rules-will-it-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/alabama-proposes-change-to-sec-transfer-rules-will-it-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama proposes change to SEC transfer rules; will it pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The SEC is considering a change to its transfer rules this week at its annual spring meetings in Destin, Florida that would allow players greater freedom to move to another school within the conference.<\/p>\n

The change, which was proposed by the University of Alabama, would push the SEC’s intra-conference transfer deadline for fall sports athletes back from February 1 to May 1. That would align it with the NCAA’s deadline to enter the transfer portal and still maintain eligibility to play the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

However, there might not be enough support for the proposal to be adopted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would guess that’s going to stay where it is. I think you open up a long time that your players can go, \u201dOle Miss coach Lane Kiffin said Tuesday. \u201cSomeone kind of joked, they’re not going to put their spring game on TV, because you’re saying, ‘Hey, here’s our best players. How to get them. ‘ I think that is probably something that will stay, in my opinion. Doesn’t mean that was everyone’s opinion. But that’s really difficult. “<\/p>\n

South Carolina coach Shane Beamer thought the transfer rule worked out well last year but was willing to listen to both sides of the argument, including the belief that SEC players should be kept within the conference as much as possible.<\/p>\n

Georgia’s Kirby Smart also favored the existing rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer the way things currently are where there’s two windows as they are,\u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cI think that it’s tremendously difficult to go through three-to-four months of workouts and spring practice and then have your roster change within your conference.<\/p>\n

“It’s one thing to say, ‘OK, May 1, a guy can leave and go anywhere he wants to go.’ That happens, and I think a lot of times that’s for the good for the player. We’ve had some kids that realized in the spring they may not get the opportunity they so desired, and they wanted to go look at other schools. There’s hundreds of schools they can go look at, you know? “<\/p>\n

Under current rules adopted last year, SEC players for fall sports need to enter the transfer portal by Feb. 1 to be immediately eligible to play at another SEC school. Alabama linebacker Henry To’o To’o transferred from Tennessee last year under that new provision, and the Tide gained three intra-conference transfers this offseason in LSU’s Eli Ricks, Georgia’s Jermaine Burton and Vanderbilt’s Tyler Steen.<\/p>\n

If the change was adopted, it would allow players to participate in spring practice and spring games at one school and have until May 1 to enter the transfer portal with the ability to transfer to another SEC school. Currently, players entering the transfer portal in the spring would need to choose a new school outside of the conference.<\/p>\n

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter <\/i>@mikerodak<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n