{"id":2182,"date":"2006-04-26T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w2182\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T02:39:25","slug":"virginia-tech-issues-statement-re-transfer-status-of-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w2182\/virginia-tech-issues-statement-re-transfer-status-of-wrestlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Issues Statement RE Transfer Status of Wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/font>Bryan Johnston Virginia Tech<\/font><\/p>\n

Due to numerous requests concerning the eligibility status of
\nVirginia Tech wrestlers, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department
\nissues the following statement:<\/p>\n

“The Virginia Tech Athletics Department has chosen not to release for the 2006-07 academic year any National Letter of Intent (NLI) signee or those wrestlers receiving athletics financial aid to any
\nDivision-I institution.<\/p>\n

The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) sets forth
\nguidelines pertaining to transfer situations amongst its member
\ninstitutions. The NCAA has had a transfer rule in place throughout
\nits years. The NCAA transfer rules require the permission of the
\ninstitution in order for the student-athlete to avoid eligibility
\nconsequences.<\/p>\n

The rule was enacted, in large part, and remains in place to this
\nday, in order to control the unfettered transfer of athletes from one
\nteam to another due to a coaching change. Virginia Tech will apply
\nthis rule for the purpose that it was intended.<\/p>\n

The Virginia Tech Athletics Department has informed these athletes that it will provide transfer releases following the 2006-07 academic year if a student-athlete still wishes to transfer out of Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech announces its position, aware that its decision is
\nsubject, per NCAA rules, to an appeal hearing conducted by a
\ncommittee of Virginia Tech faculty and staff that reside outside of
\nthe athletics department.”<\/p>\n

In releasing this statement, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department
\nwill have no further comments until the process has run its full
\ncourse.<\/p>\n

Attached for your reference are the relevant NCAA transfer bylaws.<\/p>\n

Relevant NCAA Bylaws
\nConcerning “Permission to Contact “. . .<\/p>\n

NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3
\n“An athletics staff member or other representative of the
\ninstitution’s athletics interests shall not make contact with the
\nstudent-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate
\ninstitution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the
\nwritten permission of the first institution’s athletics director (or
\nan athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to
\ndo so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is
\nnot granted, the second institution shall not encourage the transfer
\nand the institution shall not provide athletically related financial
\nassistance to the student-athlete until the student-athlete has
\nattended the second institution for one academic year. If permission is granted to contact the student-athlete, all applicable NCAA recruiting rules apply.”<\/p>\n

NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3.1
\n“If the institution decides to deny a student-athlete’s request to
\npermit any other institution to contact the student-athlete about
\ntransferring, the institution shall inform the student-athlete in
\nwriting that he or she, upon request, shall be provided a hearing
\nconducted by an institutional entity or committee outside of the
\nathletics department (e.g., the office of student affairs; office of
\nthe dean of students; or a committee composed of the faculty
\nathletics representative, student-athletes and nonathletics
\nfaculty\/staff members). The institution shall have established
\nreasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request.”<\/p>\n

Concerning the One-Time Transfer Exception (“Release”) . . .<\/p>\n

NCAA Bylaw 14.5.5.1
\n“A transfer student from a four-year institution shall not be
\neligible for intercollegiate competition at a member institution
\nuntil the student has fulfilled a residence requirement of one full
\nacademic year (two full semesters or three full quarters) at the
\ncertifying institution.”<\/p>\n

NCAA Bylaw 14.5.5.2.10-(d)
\n“If the student is transferring from a NCAA or NAIA member
\ninstitution, the student’s previous institution shall certify in
\nwriting that it has no objection to the student’s being granted an
\nexception to the transfer-residence requirement. If the student’s
\nprevious institution denies his or her request for the release, the
\ninstitution shall inform the student-athlete in writing that he or
\nshe, upon request, shall be provided a hearing conducted by an
\ninstitutional entity or committee outside of the athletics department
\n(e.g., the office of student affairs; office of the dean of students;
\nor a committee composed of the faculty athletics representative,
\nstudent-athletes and nonathletics faculty\/staff members). The
\ninstitution shall have established reasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request.”<\/p>\n

Bylaw language taken from the 2005-06 NCAA Manual, pages 90, 177, and 179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan Johnston Virginia Tech Due to numerous requests concerning the eligibility status of Virginia Tech wrestlers, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department issues the following statement: “The Virginia Tech Athletics Department has chosen not to release for the 2006-07 academic year any National Letter of Intent (NLI) signee or those wrestlers receiving athletics financial aid to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-zc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}