FUTURE transferees in the UAAP will have to sit out one year and lose another year of eligibility under proposed residency rules being discussed by the board of the country's premier college league.
Sources contacted by SPIN.ph bared that the rules change is gaining support from members of the league's policy-making body amid the mounting frustration over the transfer of high-profile players to top college programs.
READ Spate of transfers revives debate on one- or two-year residency
One source even went as far as say that the policy change has already been approved at the board level weeks ago.
Presently, league transferees need to sit out one year of residency after a previous UAAP rule requiring two sit-out years that came to be known as the Jerie Pingoy Rule was scrapped after Congress passed the Student-Athletes' Protection Bill.
However, the UAAP residency rule is coming under increasing scrutiny again amid a spate of high-profile transfer of players to top programs.
Remogat transfer 'the last straw'
The proposed new residency rules, in fact, were proposed by officials of two schools after Rey Remogat, a Mythical Five member and MVP race runner-up last season, left the UE Red Warriors to join the UP Maroons, a source said.
If and when the new rule is enforced, players who transfer from one UAAP school to another will be made to undergo one year of residency and be stripped another year of eligibility, sources said.
Three major schools - Ateneo, UP and La Salle - stood against the rule, sources said.
Aside from that, the new rule, once enforced, is expected to come under scrunity from Congress, which outlawed the two-year residency rule when it passed the Student-Athletes' Protection Bill in 2015.
The league has yet to make an announcement on the issue.
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