Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Just days after a CBSSports.com report that a proposal to alter NCAA transfer rules is gaining steam, Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin has spoken out against the current outline.

The proposal, which was drawn up by athletics officials at Baylor and Iowa State, would allow athletes to transfer without restriction if their coach was fired or left for another job. Currently players must sit out a year before competing at their new school after transferring as an undergraduate.

"There's a lot of different layers to the conversation about the transfer rules," Stricklin told WRUF radio's Steve Russell on Thursday. "I am not in favor of a young person who's an undergrad transferring and being eligible immediately."

The new transfer rules in the proposal would come with some limitations, though. Players would not be able to follow the coach to a new school if they opted to transfer.

Still, Stricklin sees the suggested change to the transfer rules as detrimental to the entire concept behind collegiate athletics.

"I think once a young person has their undergrad degree I think that's perfectly reasonable," he said. "The No. 1 goal for us on all of our kids is to help young people get their education. Studies will show that when young people transfer they are less likely to get their degree. So I don't think we need to do anything that encourages transferring.

"We have a society where we want a quick fix and instant gratification. I think if you have the instant eligibility for all transfers, that's not going to be a good environment, especially now that schools are guaranteeing scholarships for multiple years. If a school is making a four-year commitment to a young person, I think it's reasonable to expect if a young person wants to transfer there's going to be time to sit out, a period, a year to sit out."

However, having expressed his stance on the suggested proposal, Stricklin did offer some additional thoughts on ways the rules could be changed.

He is a proponent of giving the athletes a little more power in the discussion.

"What I am in favor of changing is the way schools currently can dictate what schools a young person can look at if they are going to transfer," Stricklin said.

Meaning schools shouldn't be in the business of restricting transfer destinations. Many schools will place limits on where an athlete can transfer to, often ruling out schools it is slated to compete against in the near future.

The Florida athletics director would like to see that change.

"There's two reasons, typically, why young people want to transfer," he said. "One is playing time. Or two, they're not having a good experience. Well if they're not playing and they want to go somewhere else, a school shouldn't be able to say 'you can't transfer to anybody on our scheduled or you can't transfer to anybody in our league.'

"Why do we care? If they're not playing enough for their liking and they have a chance to go somewhere else where they can get more playing time, we should want what's best for the young person there. And if they're transferring because they're not having a good experience, that's, shame on us. We should have some ownership and 'OK, we didn't do right by that young person. Let's help them get somewhere where they are going to have a good experience, because they only get to do college athletics once in their life.'"

So while Stricklin doesn't seem to be a big fan of the proposal suggested earlier this week, he does think the rules need to change a bit.

The proposal will be interesting to watch unfold over the coming months -- CBSSports.com notes that an NCAA Division 1 Transfer Working Group "is expected to push forward one or two proposals for legislation by June -- as more powerful voices in college athletics like Stricklin take their stance.

"I do think we should take out where schools have the opportunity to limit where kids can transfer to," Stricklin said. "But I do think if they transfer they should have to sit out a year as long as they're still an undegrad."

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