Transfer from Division 2 to FCS

[phillip78]

Can a player, after spending one season as a walk-on at a Division 2 school, transfer to a FCS school that does not offer athletic scholarships without having to sit-out for a year?

[danefan]

2007-2008 Transfer Guide

http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/transfer_guide/2007-08/2007-08_transfer_guide.pdf


The way I understand it is that you will have to sit a year if you transfer from DII to FCS. The only exceptions for football as I understand is from a FBS to FCS and from a scholly FCS to a non-scholly FCS.




Exceptions for Divisions I and II
If this is your first transfer …



If you have never transferred before from a
four-year school, you might be able to use
the one-time transfer exception to play right
away at a Division I or II school.


To use this exception, you must:



1. Be playing a sport other than basketball
in Division I, men's ice hockey in Division
I or football in Division I. Note that in
football you may be eligible to use this
exception if:



a. You transfer from a Football Bowl
Subdivision (formerly Division I-A)
school to a football championship
subdivision (formerly Division I-AA)
school and have at least two seasons
of competition remaining; or



b. You transfer from a football
championship subdivision
(formerly I-AA) school that offers
athletics scholarships to a football
championship subdivision (formerly
Division I-AA) that does not offer
athletics scholarships.



Note: If you do not qualify for
this exception due to any of the
conditions in Subsection 1 above,
you may be able to use the exception
if you were not recruited by your
first four-year school and have never
received an athletics scholarship.


Important Note: If you play
Division I baseball, you will not be
eligible to use this exception after
August 1, 2008.



2. Be in good academic standing and
making progress toward your degree;



3. Have been considered eligible if you had
stayed in your first school; and



4. Have a written release agreement from
your first school saying that it does not
object to your receiving an exception to
the transfer residence requirement.



I'm not sure what the definition of "recruited by" is, so the following "note" may apply in certain situations as well:



Note: If you do not qualify for
this exception due to any of the
conditions in Subsection 1 above,
you may be able to use the exception
if you were not recruited by your
first four-year school and have never
received an athletics scholarship.

The Compliance Officer at the school the person is transferring to will have the answers though.

[phillip78]

Thanks for the info

[already123]

who are all the non-scholarship schools in FCS?

[TheValleyRaider]

who are all the non-scholarship schools in FCS?

Well, at the very least all of the Pioneer League:
Butler
Campbell
Davidson
Dayton
Drake
Jacksonville
Morehead State
San Diego
Valparaiso

and what remains of the MAAC:
Iona
Marist

Plus technically the Ivy and Patriot Leagues:
Bucknell
Brown
Colgate
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Fordham
Harvard
Holy Cross
Georgetown
Pennsylvania
Princeton
Lafayette
Lehigh
Yale
although the PL awards grants-in-aid (which aren't technically scholarships, but kinda sorta similar)

There might be a team or two at the bottom of the NEC that isn't giving scholarships, but I could very easily be mistaken there (I'm thinking maybe St. Francis or Sacred Heart?)

[UCAMonkey]

What are the rules if a school drops its program? Can you transfer from a lower division school to a higher one without having to sit?

[catdaddy2402]

What are the rules if a school drops its program? Can you transfer from a lower division school to a higher one without having to sit?
I know you used to be able to do that.

Clemson picked up a FB named Steven Jackson when ETSU dropped football a few years back. He was immediately eligible.

Knowing the NCAA they changed the rule, forcing the kid to sit out a year.