College Athletes Should Not Be Banned

It is no secret that one of the most talked about topics in the world of college sports, especially football is the rule of the school transfer. As of right now, the rule is if a player decides they want to transfer schools they are not eligible to play immediately, the player must sit out one year and then the following year they become eligible to play the sport. This is the rule for every college sport, however, it is most talked about in football. This is problematic because it causes players who are not happy with their school to stay there and suffer through a terrible experience at a school that they thought was the perfect fit, come to find it is really not for them. For example, no other student is forced to sit out of their academics for one whole year just because they transfer, so that means that an
Jay Bilas said, “A student is leaving one school to attend another and participate in an extracurricular activity, the NCAA says that college athletics is just an avocation, which means it is a hobby” (Solving the Transfer Question). This shows how playing a sport is just a hobby and should not limit student-athletes from changing schools for fear of sitting out of their sport. This problem can easily be solved and it has been talked about for an ongoing amount of time. However, it is time stop talking and solve the problem of the student-athlete transfer.
Any athlete should be allowed to transfer schools at any time, the transferring athlete should be eligible to play their sport immediately at the new school. Obviously, this would not mean that the player can transfer at halftime of a game. Say a football season kicks off and at game five a player is unhappy and transfers to a new school, he will not be allowed to play in game six for that school but, with this new policy, he will be immediately eligible for game one of next season. As of