The Tennessean reported Monday the Southeastern Conference will vote on a proposal at its spring meetings next week that would lift all conference restrictions on athletes who want to transfer from one league member to another if their original school receives a postseason ban.
The proposal, co-sponsored by Florida and Texas A&M, also imposes a significant financial penalty on schools that have been banned from the postseason in football or basketball by withholding all postseason revenue from the NCAA, SEC or bowl games that could be worth millions of dollars per year.
Currently the SEC penalizes schools that receive postseason bans by withholding postseason revenue, putting that money in escrow and returning some of it to the schools if they avoid any major infractions for a period of five years.