BIRMINGHAM — Offensive lineman Cade Mays transferred to Tennessee from Georgia in January.
Mays was cleared by the NCAA to compete this season as a non-graduate transfer, however the Southeastern Conference needs to approve his waiver to play immediately after transferring within the conference.
On Wednesday, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey was a guest on “The Roundtable,” a radio show in Birmingham, Alabama. Sankey discussed the current transfer rules that are in place, saying that they “are appropriate within our own conference.”
SEC transfer regulations
Beginning in 2018, SEC student-athletes who received their degrees from another SEC school were able to transfer within the conference and play right away.
Sankey discussed if any rules regarding transferring within conference could change for the likes of non-graduates.
“The answer is because we have to work together — we have to be respectful,” Sankey said on “The Roundtable.” “Could it change, should it change, might we manage it differently, those are questions still to be answered, but the real direct answer is, decades ago, and repeatedly since, the now-14 member universities of the SEC have said we think that rules are appropriate within our own conference.”