Sure, absent evidence, absent context, but with a generous dose of strategic hyperbole, anyone can make what ever assumptions they would like to. To what end?
Are Grad Transfers relevant to your concerns about students graduating?
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Are Grad Transfers relevant to your concerns about students graduating?
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Investigating College Basketball's Transfer Movement
Transfers have become a vitally important aspect of college basketball. Adding players from the transfer market to fill out rosters can sometimes mean the difference between winning a national championship and suffering an early tournament defeat. Losing players via transfer also carries a...
athleticdirectoru.com
This article is dated, 7 years old, but it goes into pretty good depth on the transfer situation. The numbers have only grown since 2017. Like I said over the past couple years there have been in excess of 2000 basketball players in the portal each year. With 315 schools and say an average of 18 kids that's 5,670 total players including walk-ons. 4095 scholarship players. If 2000 or more are in the portal, each year that is at minimum 40% turnover every year, which doesn't include people that run out of eligibility. So there may not be a massive number of 4 or 5 school kids, there is a large percentage that are moving to 3 schools, and as we continue to move through this evolution the 4 school thing will become more regular. Even with the 2 or 3 multi school transfer graduation during eligibility is plummeting to Bob Huggins rates in many universities across the country, because credits don't always transfer and actually obtaining a degree is very difficult if you move even more than once. I don't know the specifics on grad transfers, but there are far more non grad transfers. The fact that this is now a pay to play system, the whole scenario has become a bastardized shell of what it once was. My point was this has become business more than education. If you want to just focus on my hyperbole and exaggeration that is your choice. The fact is the the pay to play system has changed college athletics to a completely different beast. Ask UNLV if they'd like there quarterback under center or in a court trying to get more dollars.
Maybe 2000 entered the portal? Where are you getting that number?
Transfer Portal Data: Division I Student-Athlete Transfer Trends
Transfer Portal Data: Division I Student-Athlete Transfer Trends
www.ncaa.org
I see 1296 transfers, 1/3rd grads.
Now that players with an extra COVID year will finally have worked their way through, I think the numbers will take a slight downturn.
If your point is that it's become more business than education, maybe you need to go back to the 80s to have that discussion. Pay for play not only predates NIL, it predates SMU getting the death penalty. Now there's just more light being shone on the situation, which is better for honest individuals and decent institutions.
