"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 Division-I institution.
The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) sets forth guidelines pertaining to transfer situations amongst its member institutions. The NCAA has had a transfer rule in place throughout its years. The NCAA transfer rules require the permission of the institution in order for the student-athlete to avoid eligibility consequences.
The rule was enacted, in large part, and remains in place to this day, in order to control the unfettered transfer of athletes from one team to another due to a coaching change. Virginia Tech will apply this rule for the purpose that it was intended.
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.
Virginia Tech announces its position, aware that its decision is subject, per NCAA rules, to an appeal hearing conducted by a committee of Virginia Tech faculty and staff that reside outside of the athletics department."
In releasing this statement, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department will have no further comments until the process has run its full course.
Concerning "Permission to Contact"...
NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3
"An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution's athletics director (or an athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is not granted, the second institution shall not encourage the transfer and the institution shall not provide athletically related financial assistance to the student-athlete until the student-athlete has attended the second institution for one academic year. If permission is granted to contact the student-athlete, all applicable NCAA recruiting rules apply."
NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3.1
"If the institution decides to deny a student-athlete's request to permit any other institution to contact the student-athlete about transferring, the institution shall inform the student-athlete in writing that he or she, upon request, shall be provided a hearing conducted by an institutional entity or committee outside of the athletics department (e.g., the office of student affairs; office of the dean of students; or a committee composed of the faculty athletics representative, student-athletes and nonathletics faculty/staff members). The institution shall have established reasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request."
Concerning the One-Time Transfer Exception ("Release")...
NCAA Bylaw 14.5.5.1
"A transfer student from a four-year institution shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition at a member institution until the student has fulfilled a residence requirement of one full academic year (two full semesters or three full quarters) at the certifying institution."
NCAA Bylaw 14.5.5.2.10-(d)
"If the student is transferring from a NCAA or NAIA member institution, the student's previous institution shall certify in writing that it has no objection to the student's being granted an exception to the transfer-residence requirement. If the student's previous institution denies his or her request for the release, the institution shall inform the student-athlete in writing that he or she, upon request, shall be provided a hearing conducted by an institutional entity or committee outside of the athletics department (e.g., the office of student affairs; office of the dean of students; or a committee composed of the faculty athletics representative, student-athletes and nonathletics faculty/staff members). The institution shall have established reasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request."
Bylaw language taken from the 2005-06 NCAA Manual, pages 90, 177, and 179.
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