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Judgment prefers NCAA professional athletes looking for 2nd transfer

Matt Rhule informs Pat McAfee his stress over transfer website, NIL (2:28)

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule signs up with Pat McAfee to talk about the threats of NIL and the transfer website in college football. (2:28)

  • Associated Press

Dec 13, 2023, 02:07 PM ET

CHARLESTON, West Virginia– College professional athletes who were rejected the opportunity to play right away after moving a 2nd time can go back to competitors, in the meantime, after a federal judge released a 14-day short-lived limiting order Wednesday versus the NCAA.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey in northern West Virginia released the order versus the NCAA from implementing the transfer guideline. A suit submitted by West Virginia and 6 other states declared the guideline’s waiver procedure broke federal antitrust law.

A hearing on the limiting order is set up for Dec. 27, Bailey stated.

The NCAA didn’t instantly show whether it would appeal the judgment.

NCAA guidelines enable underclassmen to move when without needing to remain a year. An extra transfer as an undergraduate usually needs the NCAA to give a waiver permitting the professional athlete to contend instantly. Without it,

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