The experience has already changed. Even since the 2010-12 run. Dolezaj is a rare commodity. Four-year players don’t come around. Wish we could have paired him with a better center and allowed him to play his natural position the last two years. Indictment on the staff in a big way. And don’t tell me bad luck with Sidibe.
No team can plan for their starting center being injured and out for they year 4 minutes in to the season. I wish he could have played the 4 as well.
It’s a continuation of one and done. It destabilizes programs, College bball is going through some convulsions, that’s for sure!
It’s not good. The NCAA as usual is asleep at the wheel and refuses to do what’s best for the sport. Paying players and NIL should be a priority. But the NCAA is so freakin desperate to hold on to their amateurism sham that they’re wiling to give up anything, including sensible rules that promote program stability and hold back chaos, prevent schools from wasting resources in recruiting and development, prevent mid majors from being raided by P5 schools, reign in kids from making bad decisions, and keep fans engaged with their teams. This is gonna hurt the fan experience and the game long term. The NBA doesn’t have unlimited free agency. The key thing to know with this rule change is that the NCAA is desperate to hold onto their sham amateurism model so they’re willing to cave and invite chaos in the transfer rules in order to prevent a larger player revolt and intervention from lawmakers. When the right and fair answer is to pass a sensible NIL rule and to give the players some cut from the billion dollar NCAA tourney revenue.
I agree with that. Kids shouldn’t be forced to sit out a year if their coach leaves or is fired. Exceptions like that would be fair.
You have to have a backup plan when the center is injury prone. Which he has been since his freshman year. The contingency plan was terrible.
They had one but he went to Duke and never played.
That’s not a contingency plan. He’s been in the program 4 years. He’s been injured since the jump. A last-gasp summer recruitment before year 4 is a terrible plan.
Exactly. In general, continuity is better for the players and their development and the programs.
Than i think its important to treat any athlete that transfers exactly the same as any other student. Credits academic admission standards need to be adhered to. A student who isnt in good academic standing at their current school will usually have a very difficult time transferring. Many schools will not accept credits from other schools.
I agree. Treat them the same.
How about for the kids that play the game? See, I said that I agree. It really, at least for me, ruins the fan experience. A lot of the fun is disliking the other team. And of course, liking your guys. Now, they could all be switching jerseys after the year. But for the kids, freedom of movement is good. Some kids will learn a tough lesson of course. About green grass. And, about not having a place as good as the one you were in. But that will be their choice. Not some older man who if he feels like it, can up and leave that kid high and dry for a few bucks more.
You make a lot of good points in your various posts. I find this one interesting about liking or disliking kids on teams. While that obviously is true, the bigger picture here much more often is not disliking the player because of the person he is, but because of the team he plays for that we dislike. We may not like a player because they play for a despised team (of course there are exceptions). But, if a “disliked” player transfers to SU, then we may all of a sudden like the same player because now he is part of the team we like and root for, or perhaps we are more tolerant of character flaws, if they exist, because he is now part of our team. It’s like this in anything. We agree, like, and connect with things or people all the time simply because they fit our own viewpoints of the world, and vice versa. In sure you’d agree.
Of course. That was my point. LOL and I hate losing that. I mean the second devo transferred to Uconn, both boards would have changed their opinion about him.
I would say that most transfers are going from a better team to a worse team.
You mean the guys that didn't play, sure. And i don't think anyone has a problem with kids that don't play, transferring and playing right away. The problem is when schools like Kentucky recruit kids from small schools that turn out to be very good and convince them to transfer. Not legal but it's more legal than paying high school kids.
My Exhibit A, from many years ago: Earl The Pearl Monroe from Bullets to the Knicks.
If anyone listened to johnny Most the old Celtic pbp guy. he hated Paul Silas. Until he became a Celtic.
For this year, yes.
I’m always on board with individual freedom. Do you realize that only 4 groups of athletes (FB, MBB, WBB, and M hockey) have the transfer penalty? Proof positive it has nothing to do with academics and serving the student. It’s about money, and also (mostly) about controlling financially disadvantaged kids. (Hockey just has its own weird set of rules, like being a pro in the juniors, then being able to go to play in college.).
