It already exists in every sport except football and basketball I believe (hockey too?). And most players already transfer anyway. The change will be HMs trying to poach the Ja Morant’s of the world (who are few and far between). They’ll mostly fail and it’ll chill out and become normal.
I think it’ll settle in… everyone is going to think it is a good idea to start but in the end it is only going to make sense for a select few players. Also the fact that you can only do it once means that you have to really think about it.
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Non-revenue sports aren’t nearly as competitive generally and tend to have absurdly bad parity, so I’m not sure if that’s the greatest example.
What type of transfers do you think are going to ruin the game?
HM players who can’t crack the rotation transferring after their freshman year to the proper level? This seems like 100% a good thing.
MM star freshmen leaving to go HM? This seems like it’ll be something that lower level HMs really pursue (Northwestern type of schools) but there are probably only a few MM freshmen who are really good enough to impact the game at the higher levels.
Star MM players are usually upperclassmen I’d say… is there a chance that those guys do what amounts to a grad transfer year (just not as a grad transfer) at a higher level? Probably. Does that ruin college basketball? Is that a sustainable way to build a program?
Seems like big recruiting misses will be able to correct their course up or down.
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Do you really have to think about it? Let’s say you transfer after your freshman year. You get a free transfer and now you’re a sophomore somewhere else. Now you can reasonably still do another transfer, because you can redshirt a year and then compete as a junior and senior at your new school. Now you just finished your red shirt junior year. Now you can grad transfer somewhere else no cost. So you just played 4 years at 4 different schools. You have a lot of leeway to change your mind and move.
Obviously it’s an absurd example, but it effectively becomes nearly free movement with this rule change.
I just don’t really understand why or how that would happen. Or what kind of common use case it would be. Right now there are a bunch of guys who play at three schools, sometimes even the same school twice, but it is just a rare one off case. Not like an ideal path.
It’s more of an illustration that “you still have to think about it” isn’t really an argument for the change. Giving one free transfer is basically the same as creating free movement in college hoops, as the cost for a bad transfer decision is very minimal.
I’d be concerned about even more absurd blue-blood accumalation where they basically get to trade failed high 4 stars for immediate impact players from bad high-major schools. Like Daniel Otoru transferring to UNC to replace Garrison Brooks.
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Yeah, I’m not sure why any kid would want to do that. And most kids transfer for playing time. I’m not sure a kid would be a very hot commodity if he’s transferred multiple times already and hasn’t gotten PT yet. Most likely coaches would rather use their scholarship on someone else.
And the list of kids who are not happy at their current school, good enough to be coveted by blue bloods, but not good enough to go pro is likely to be extremely small. Kids transfer all the time now anyways. All this does is remove all the BS from kids making up “hardships” to appeal to the NCAA when in reality almost every kid transfers for the same reason - they aren’t happy in their current situation.
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Oturu will just go to the NBA. And if a guy isn’t a pro, why is a blue blood taking him?
I think there are plenty of great college players that are meh pros. And the incentive to stay in college will increase once NLI rights pass in the near future.
I just don’t see the situation where it it will make a lot of sense for all involved parties. If a kid is happy at a school with his role and coach, he isn’t going to just transfer. Could it happen? Sure, but I think the number of situations where it makes sense for player and program will be lower than you think.
As an AD I’d be most worried that I’d have a whole group of guys looking to walk away if I made a coaching change.
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We call that the Cleveland State.
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I think it’d be important to crack down on “tampering.” IE being strict on ensuring coaches don’t contact players if they aren’t in the transfer portal.
I feel like giving players a free transfer through a coaching change would be the alternative to this anyway. Whatever coach took over in that position would be able to better replace his players though
Just so I’m clear, for the purposes of this discussion we’re not going to cite “The Bag” as a factor here, right?
Another big win for Creighton over Marquette. That win looks better and better by the day. Gonzaga + Creighton may be a couple of the most impressive NC wins in the country. If they had Oregon on top of that it would have been real nice.
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In addition, it may prompt coaches to keep it real. Under promise/over deliver is the key to customer relationships.
Insane finish to Cincinnati-UCF. UCF is up three and fouls Cincinnati with seven seconds left. Cincy makes both free throws and then UCF can’t inbound it and gets a five second violation. Cumberland misses a shot to win it with two seconds left and then Cincy fouls UCF. The dude misses the first and then makes the second to go up 2. Cumberland proceeds to hit an insane half court shot to win it, but upon review it’s a half second late.
Brutal loss for Cincy. They’re right on the bubble and a home loss vs a meh opponent is not good.
NC State likes the bubble…