Through May 24, the NCAA committee for legislative relief had approved 66% of transfer waiver requests across all sports for the 2018-19 academic year, down from 73% in the four previous years combined, according to the NCAA. In football, the transfer waiver approval rate for 2018-19 was 68%, down 2 percentage points compared with the previous four academic years. Waiver requests dipped during those three years, then bounced back in 2018-19 after the NCAA softened its rules. Waiver requests are judged individually and subjectivity bakes into the process — which can make results seem ambiguous. Mars declined to give details but said there was more to Fields’ cases than what was widely speculated.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2019 07:51 UTC