Transfer Portal + COVID year = Chaos

[lvhiker]

The get of jail card of free transfer is playing havoc with rosters across the country. Add in the COVID year, and the number of years a given transfer stays becomes another X factor. Personally, I think the players deserve the flexibility enjoyed by coaches. But like many new policies, there are going to be unintended consequences.

For example, recruiting high school players as opposed to players in transfer portal becomes problematical. A high school recruit comes with a free pass to transfer at anytime. A successful hs recruit can jump to a “better” program with zero penalty. On the hand, a transfer has used the free pass and cannot transfer again without burning a year of eligibility. It seems to me signing transfers might produce a more stable roster than focusing on hs recruits.

The next year or two of recruiting ought to be extremely entertaining. Go Rebels.

 

[rebelzzz]

I think it will hurt the HS recruiting the most. It will create more stability for a bunch of teams just to recruit the transfer portal and they will not recruit near as much from HS. Some programs are going to get tired if losing their star players to the big teams. I am expecting 1000 plus in the portal pretty much every year from now on.

 

[rebelwithacause]

Hiker....Kids got screwed over big time over all this ...its not a "get out of jail free card".

 

[lvhiker]

Hiker....Kids got screwed over big time over all this ...its not a "get out of jail free card".

Please explain. Up until this new rule, coaches held all the cards. Many, if not most, coaches are great salesmen. Come to U of X. It is the best place for you because .... Sometimes the reality of the U of X falls short. Before the kid was stuck at the U of X even if things weren’t working out. Stuck, unless he was willing to sit out a year, even if the coach left for greener pastures.

Maybe, just maybe, coaches will have to be more up front with impressionable hs recruits. But,rebelwithacause, you could be correct. The ncaa has a history of protecting the product more than troops creating the product.

 

[rebneck]

I feel bad for the kids coming out of HS who, in a normal time, may have been fringe scholarship types. That extra year of eligibility for the super seniors keeps a lot of those kids on the sidelines, paying their own way, if they can.

 

[Rebel1986]

You mean the same way most students pay their own way through an education?

 

[saulpaul21]

If they keep this rule up, why would anyone recruit high school talent unless super high end types? The biggest schools can simply rob the lower end schools of their best players each year as those kids look for better exposure.

This is just like AAU, get a new team each year. Actually UNLV is very lucky the "be able immediately" rule is in place this year as they would have likely have been in a Marv M first year situation with no players available had this not been in place.

 

[Rebel77fl2]

There is still some details to see if players like Grill can actually transfer a second time without sitting out. They still need a waiver, the question is will that process be like the previous waivers (a formality) or will they get more restrictive on who gets them.

I don’t think one time transfers will be too bad once this year settles down. Also as players see the results they may be less inclined to jump if they can’t jump again. If second and third transfers become available with no penalty then there will be big problems.

 

[lvhiker]

If multiple jumps become possible, rosters will continually change. All the allusion about student-athletes “attending “ a particular school will evaporate.

 

[Rebel1986]

When the players started to demand the schools open their wallets for them (considering 90%+ of colleges athletic departments lose money), all allusion about student athletes went out the door. The only reason many programs show a positive cash flow is the millions in donations they get from alumni every year. How many people would continue to donate if the programs had no ties to colleges/universities?