Iowa AD suggests ending immediate transfer eligibility to curb ‘wild-west’ of NIL deals

Longtime Iowa athletics director Gary Barta is advocating for NCAA institutions to bring back one year of ineligibility for athletic transfers as a way to curb what he calls “the wild, wild west” confluence of name, image and likeness with the transfer portal.

“If we can’t totally control name, image and likeness, then let’s go back and put a one year … if you transfer, you can transfer, you don’t have to lose your scholarship,” Barta said Thursday on the school-produced “Fight For Iowa Podcast. “But you must sit out a year because we can control that, and that, I think, would slow down the name, image and likeness deals.