nuk13 wrote:
This is his third team right? He's catching up with a lot of pros for the amount of teams he's played for. I don't understand why the ncaa doesn't have some rule on how many teams you can play for. People are upset at missionaries coming back and playing for the same team.
There's already a practical limit due to eligibility, because you have to sit out a year unless you've graduated. The absolute maximum would be 4, in the following scenario:
1. Player enrolls early, doesn't sign an LOI, plays a year at school 1. Eligibility clock begins, after the season he has 4 years to play 3.
2. Player goes on a mission for two years, transfers and plays a year at school 2. Doesn't have to sit out thanks to the Harvey Langi LOI loophole. After the seasion, 3 years to play 2.
3. Player transfers to school 3, sits out a redshirt year, plays a season. 1 year to play 1.
4. Player graduates from school 3, plans to do graduate school at school 4. He transfers and is eligible immediately, for 1 season.
You can also substitute a Div. II transfer for the graduate transfer or the LOI loophole transfer and get 4. But you've only got 4 years you can actually play.
That's a crazy scenario. Reality for most players is 3 schools, because unless you use the LOI loophole, the graduate transfer, or transfer to a lower division, your second and third transfers would both eat a year of eligibility, and you'd only wind up playing 3 seasons.
If you transfer at any time without a redshirt available (say, because you didn't play as a freshman, or you already transferred once), you are burning a year of eligibility. To me this is penalty enough. No need to put some artificial cap on the number of transfers or schools.
