Is the Grass Truly Always Greener? Transfer History, Rules and Statistics

By Dennis Phillips, D.P.E.   “But the grass ain’t always greener on the other side. It’s green where you water it.“ (Bieber, 2012).   One of the trends in intercollegiate athletics is the increasing amount of transfers. Transfers come in many forms: from two-year to four-year colleges; four-year to two-year and back to four-year colleges; four-year to four-year colleges at all divisions; and finally, the relatively recent transfers following graduation from undergraduate instit