NCAA
INDIANAPOLIS - The Division II Executive Board this week adopted emergency legislation to establish a transfer window in football that will take effect June 1.
Modeled after the Division I football transfer window, this legislation will require a Division II football student-athlete to initiate the notification-of-transfer process during a Jan. 2-16 window unless using an applicable Division I exception.
The legislation also will require Division II football student-athletes to be entered into the NCAA Transfer Portal by their school within two business days of receipt of a written notification of transfer from the student-athlete or receipt of confirmation of the student-athlete's completion of a transfer educational module, whichever occurs later, rather than the current seven consecutive calendar days.
The June 1 effective date provides Division II football student-athletes an opportunity to initiate the notification-of-transfer process this spring, based on current Division II legislation, which allows student-athletes to begin the process at any time. After June 1, a football student-athlete will be required to wait until the Division I football transfer window to initiate the transfer process.
"By approving a legislated transfer window in Division II football, the Executive Board is providing greater clarity, consistency and structure to the transfer process while aligning more closely with Division I timelines," said Sandra Woodley, Division II Executive Board chair and president of The University of Texas Permian Basin
The Division II Legislation Committee will review Transfer Portal data for all sports during its June 16-17 videoconference and determine whether legislated transfer windows in all other sports are appropriate.