If you transfer to the top schools according to the NCAA in the SEC, Big 10 or ACC. plus ND you are eligible immediately. If you transfer to any other school, you lose a year. This is the actual rule.
From the article:
" To date, at least six undergraduate players have transferred from Michigan and only linebacker Drew Singleton had been granted immediate eligibility at Rutgers."
Rutgers really came out of nowhere as a "top school".
Could it be that most cases are denied except for those that can actually prove extenuating circumstances? Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that most of these kids are transferring for any reason other than playing time or regretting their college choice. The NCAA sees through the ruse most of the time.
I'd have loved to have our transfers work out with immediate eligibility, but the defeatist conspiracy shtick gets old.