TCU coach Gary Patterson blasts NCAA over new transfer rules

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    TCU coach Gary Patterson blasts NCAA over new transfer rules

    The NCAA recently passed a rule that is designed to make it easier for players to transfer schools, and TCU football coach Gary Patterson is among those who are strongly opposed to it.The new rule makes it so players no longer have to get approval from their school if they want to transfer. Instead, they just need to inform the school so they can be entered into a database, which will inform other schools that they are looking to transfer and give them permission to contact those players. Patterson believes that is going to create a bidding war that will hurt non-Power Five schools.“Here’s what’s going to happen – players from other teams are going to start recruiting people and you can’t stop them from going wherever they’re going to go,” he said, via Drew Davison of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Then it’s like what we’ve been trying to stop for a long time – it’s going to become the highest bidder. The people who are going to get hurt most by this is the non-Power Five schools.”As Davison notes, the NCAA’s

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