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- Updated: June 3, 2016
9:00 PM ET
IRVING, Texas — In a reversal from the day before, the Big 12 approved a rule proposal Thursday that will make quarterback Baker Mayfield eligible at Oklahoma for the 2017 season.
On Wednesday, the faculty athletic representatives voted down a rule that would have allowed walk-ons to transfer within the conference without losing a season of eligibility.
But Thursday morning, as ESPN.com reported earlier, the reps reconvened and considered a similar rule proposal with a slight change. Instead of allowing all walk-ons to transfer regardless, the reps amended the original proposal, allowing only walk-ons without written scholarship offers from their original schools to transfer without losing a season of eligibility. If the walk-on still elected to transfer after being offered a scholarship from the original school, then the player would face the league’s same eligibility restrictions that …
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