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Transfers away. College football looks set to implement the one-time transfer idea Jim Harbaugh started pushing last year:

The Division I Council is expected to vote next week to introduce the one-time transfer exception proposal into the legislative cycle, two sources told The Athletic. A formal vote by NCAA membership could take place as early as January at the NCAA’s annual convention. If adopted, the rule would take effect for the 2021-22 academic year. That means if an FBS football player decides to transfer following the 2020 season and has eligibility remaining, he would be eligible to play at his new destination next fall.

This exception already exists for all sports except football, basketball, and men's hockey. The legislation does have a restriction that seems fair enough to me:

…the legislation includes a May 1 notification date for fall and winter sports and a July 1 notification date for spring sports. Athletes who miss those deadlines would need waivers to receive immediate eligibility.

That would prevent guys leaving fall camp for immediate eligibility elsewhere. This would prevent a carousel effect where someone leaves or gets hurt at one school, which poaches a player, creating an opening for another poaching, etc.

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Ah yes, still Harbaugh. Someone had this video in a vault for years and decided that now was the time we needed it:

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— isolAceion Anbender (@AceAnbender) July 1, 2020

DRC, now four, reports that this video is "not great" and it makes him feel "bad… in an angry kind of way." I have given his take a thumbs down. He is unmoved.

[After THE JUMP: and you other brothers can't deny that the post continues]

Pretty much everything is the grimace emoji. Anthony Fauci on playing football this fall:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, "Unless players are essentially in a bubble -- insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day -- it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall. If there is a second wave, which is certainly a possibility and which would be complicated by the predictable flu season, football may not happen this year."

Fauci is being conservative when he says a second wave is "certainly a possibility." And Michigan doesn't have any plans to put their athletes in Biosphere III:

“I can tell you we will not isolate our student-athletes and put them in a hotel and keep them there — they’re not professionals,” Manuel said. “We won't get into a situation where we are placing them into a hotel continuously to isolate them from their fellow students and whomever else. It’s just not in our plans is not something that we're looking to do. If that is the only way that we we have to proceed, then we will have to make other decisions, obviously.”

Michigan has two positive tests from 221 athletes they've given swabs to. This is June, in the only state that seems to be doing pretty well at reducing cases. Once students flood back from across the country and start drunkenly yelling at each other over Chubby Checker songs it's not going to take much of a slip for a bunch of infections. Unless our societal answer is "eh, screw it" this is going to one hell of a needle to thread. (It kind of seems like we're going the "eh, screw it route.)

FWIW, Dan Patrick says that a source told him the Pac 12 and Big 10 will only play conference games this fall. That seems like putting one boot on before diving into the school of piranhas, but okay. 

[After THE JUMP: will the most spineless person in congress please stand up, or at least lean indicatively]