thanx for posting the actual rules. do you interpret them that any player may move without penalty- not necessarily a senior.pls advise thanx brian ---------- From: The Maine Hockey Discussion List on behalf of Mike Machnik Sent: Thursday, August 01, 1996 12:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ME-HOCKEY Subject: NCAA rules on transferring from schools on probation I tracked down a couple of rules that are relevant to the Maine situation and the players who may be eligible to play someplace else without sitting out a year. Note that I am not advocating that players leave Maine, nor do I want to see a mass exodus of Maine players. I am just presenting information. The gist is that as some have suggested, the only players eligible to leave Maine and play someplace else without sitting a year are the seniors, because the NCAA has only given Maine one year of no postseason (NCAA) tournament eligibility. If you want to see the actual rules, here they are, taken from the 1996-97 NCAA Manual. My comments are in brackets - []. [page 192] 14.8.1 COUNCIL WAIVERS. The Council, by a two-thirds majority of its members present and voting, may waive specific provisions of this bylaw as follows. 14.8.1.2 Residence Requirement. The one-year residence requirement for student-athletes may be waived under the following conditions or circumstances: [a, b, d irrelevant and not reproduced here] (c) On the recommendation of the Committee on Infractions, for a student-athlete who transfers to a member institution to continue the student-athlete's opportunity for full participation in a sport because the student-athlete's original institution was placed on probation by the NCAA with sanctions that would preclude the institution's team in that sport from participating in postseason competition during ALL OF THE REMAINING SEASONS [emphasis mine] of the student-athlete's eligibility (see also 13.1.1.3.3). [page 114] 13.1.1.3.3 Transfer from Institution on Probation. It is not necessary for an institution to obtain permission in writing to recruit a student-athlete at an institution that has been placed on probation with sanctions that preclude it from competing in postseason competition during the remaining seasons of the student-athlete's eligibility. However, the student-athlete's institution must be notified of the recruitment and may establish reasonable restrictions related to the contact (e.g., no visits during class time), provided such restrictions do not preclude the opportunity for the student-athlete to discuss transfer possibilities with the other institution (see also 14.8.1.2-(c)). --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html *****