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For the second straight year, the SEC at its spring meetings will take up the issue of serious misconduct of prospective transfers. Presidents and athletic directors next week will consider adding additional language to a league rule adopted last year.
The league already barred transfers who were disciplined at a previous institution for sexual assault, domestic violence or other forms of sexual violence from playing at a league school and now would add language to include “dating violence or stalking and conduct that raises serious concerns about the safety of others.”
The language recommended by a student-athlete conduct working group expands the scope to include not just transfers dismissed from a school but it would also bar transfers who were convicted of, pled guilty or no contest to a serious misconduct felony.
“The rule that was passed at the last spring meeting was a first step,” William King, the SEC’s associate commissioner for legal affairs and compliance, said Friday. “I think commissioner (Greg) Sankey made that clear from the beginning that this was a first step and that the conference would revisit the rule.”
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity spoke on 680 AM earlier this month about the proposal that will be considered in Destin, Fla.: “We brought that forward last year. It’s actually being tweaked a little bit to be even a little bit tougher. We have representation on that group.”
McGarity later declined further comment.
Georgia proposed the misconduct rule last year which came after UGA dismissed defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor after a domestic violence arrest. After attending junior college, he enrolled at Alabama before he was booted again following another domestic violence charge. McGarity said Thursday that the school isn’t sponsoring any legislation this year.
The UGA representation on the working group is faculty athletics representative David Shipley. He said in January the group was looking at expanding the definition of serious misconduct.
The Big 12 last year after the SEC also restricted transfers under a similar policy. Its league member Baylor fired football coach Art Briles and stripped Ken Starr from being president for inadequate response to reports of sexual assault. The Pac-12 this year also passed its own transfer ban for those with a history of misconduct.
The SEC rule passed last year allowed for a school to ask for a waiver to be considered by the SEC’s executive committee, but a league spokesman said it wouldn’t comment on the number of waiver requests received and couldn’t say how many prospective transfers were affected by the rule because some of that “is handled at the institutional level before it reaches the SEC office.”
The SEC legislative proposal this year, which includes graduate students but still not freshmen enrolling, will require schools to conduct an inquiry into a transfer’s background to satisfy due diligence expectations before a player goes on scholarship or being allowed to practice or compete. That is separate from a regular university admissions process and is to be done with all transfers even if conduct issues aren’t suspected, King said.
Schools are expected to ask possible transfers if they have pending criminal charges, have been convicted of serious misconduct crimes and been disciplined at a previous school and if they were subject to a pending proceeding at the previous school when they left.


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