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Breaking: NCAA may vote to allow all transfers to play immediately
- Thread starter Buffnik
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Hope that's true...
Doubt it. Those G5 teams still have the same academic requirements that the P5 teams have. Jucos allow non qualifiers to play a year or two and transfer college credits. Two different systems. Lots of 4* guys end up as jucos.
dyemeduke
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Collegiate sports, specifically the revenue sports, need to be more fair to the athletes, and this includes providing a structure in which they can thrive. Kids in their late teens and early 20s may be legal adults, but let's face it, they are not the best decision makers. Consequences need to be put in place to force them to think about their decisions, as they are still learning about life. Many of our athletes come from backgrounds with less structure, so they need more of it imo.
I'm all for player transferring when they need, but there need to be boundaries. Some of the current ones are bull****. A coach/institution should not be allowed to prevent a kid from transferring, but there must be some penalty, extraordinary circumstances aside, for players making that decision. I'm incredibly glad this idea is tabled for now.
I love college sports, but hate the machine it's become - deplorable.
I'm all for player transferring when they need, but there need to be boundaries. Some of the current ones are bull****. A coach/institution should not be allowed to prevent a kid from transferring, but there must be some penalty, extraordinary circumstances aside, for players making that decision. I'm incredibly glad this idea is tabled for now.
I love college sports, but hate the machine it's become - deplorable.
Great stuff from NBC Sports & Rob Dauster here.
The first point is so spot on. If people want to start anywhere on these issues, this is the one thing we must all agree on.
1. Barring student-athletes from transferring is wrong and you’ll never convince me otherwise: Before we get into anything that has to do with how changes to the current rules will affect college basketball, let me make one point very clear: So long as these players are viewed through the prism of being a “student”-athlete, I am against putting up barriers to transferring.
The NCAA operates in a world where college football and college basketball, regardless of how big it has gotten, is an extracurricular activity. Their argument for this is that these players are amateurs. They are students first. They cannot be paid by the school, they cannot be paid by sponsors, they cannot be paid by boosters, they do not own the rights to their likeness, etc. If that is the case, then it is wrong to argue that they are not regular students when it comes time for them to change schools.
You cannot have it both ways.
Either they’re amateur students that should not be punished for choosing to pursue their education elsewhere, or they’re professionals that can be paid in more than just scholarship money and get disincentives to leaving — a mandatory redshirt year — built into their contracts with the school.
Pick one.
The first point is so spot on. If people want to start anywhere on these issues, this is the one thing we must all agree on.
1. Barring student-athletes from transferring is wrong and you’ll never convince me otherwise: Before we get into anything that has to do with how changes to the current rules will affect college basketball, let me make one point very clear: So long as these players are viewed through the prism of being a “student”-athlete, I am against putting up barriers to transferring.
The NCAA operates in a world where college football and college basketball, regardless of how big it has gotten, is an extracurricular activity. Their argument for this is that these players are amateurs. They are students first. They cannot be paid by the school, they cannot be paid by sponsors, they cannot be paid by boosters, they do not own the rights to their likeness, etc. If that is the case, then it is wrong to argue that they are not regular students when it comes time for them to change schools.
You cannot have it both ways.
Either they’re amateur students that should not be punished for choosing to pursue their education elsewhere, or they’re professionals that can be paid in more than just scholarship money and get disincentives to leaving — a mandatory redshirt year — built into their contracts with the school.
Pick one.