D1 Baseball - Playing immediately without a waiver now allowed in some situations

I asked this question on another thread, but don't think it was answered:  How is "walk-on" defined?  If you play on a team but get no athletic aide, does that mean you can transfer without waiver?  How can one distinguish between a recruited player vs. a walk-on, if there's no money/NLI?

CTbballDad posted:

I asked this question on another thread, but don't think it was answered:  How is "walk-on" defined?  If you play on a team but get no athletic aide, does that mean you can transfer without waiver?  How can one distinguish between a recruited player vs. a walk-on, if there's no money/NLI?

Details from Rick's email below. The definition of "recruited" is in the NCAA manuals.

An athlete transferring to a Division I university next Fall as an undergraduate will have the chance to be immediately eligible if:

• The athlete’s previous four-year college provided athletic scholarships in their sport, but the athlete has not received an athletic scholarship, OR
• The athlete’s previous four-year college did not provide athletic scholarships, and the athlete was not “recruited” by the previous four-year college.

Yeah, just seems like a grey area if the player says prove you recruited me and there is no NLI, just a verbal offer.

CTbballDad posted:

Yeah, just seems like a grey area if the player says prove you recruited me and there is no NLI, just a verbal offer.

Shouldn't really be much grey area.

15.02.9 Recruited Student-Athlete. For purposes of Bylaw 15, a recruited student-athlete is a student athlete
who, as a prospective student-athlete: (Adopted: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11, Revised: 4/25/18)
  (a) Was provided an official visit to the institution’s campus;
  (b) Had an arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with a member of the institution’s coaching staff (including
a coach’s arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with the prospective student-athlete or the prospective
student-athlete’s family members); or
  (c) Was issued a National Letter of Intent or a written offer of athletically related financial aid by the institution
for a regular academic term.

I wonder if you will see some kids take the walk on route to have more flexibility to transfer?  An instate 25% offer is worth about 5-6k at a lot of schools. I doubt it becomes widespread, but I could see a few kids going this route. Especially if the player is at the bottom end of a recruiting class and the family can afford it.