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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 6, 2020 8:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 8, 2020 13:57:24 GMT -5
EARLY transfers:
Freshman guard Dayton Harris of Northern Arizona has entered the transfer portal. He was considered a very good commitment for Northern Arizona. No word yet on what is going on. Timing is really strange.
Forward Kamani Johnson, who was third team All Sun Belt last year for Arkansas Little Rock, has entered the transfer portal. He's a Brooklyn native.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 8:16:00 GMT -5
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 13, 2020 9:29:38 GMT -5
The NCAA takes a lot of deserved criticism, but I also think a lot of undeserved criticism. It is inherently in a untenable position. It can't really impose rules for the good of all when its most powerful members have opposing incentives. And it has the impossible job of trying to balance the idea of amateurism, and athletics as part of a college education, with the huge amounts of money involved, especially (again) for those top schools. The transfer sit year was intended to make sure that athletes moved for reasons other than simple athletics. It may not be the best rule, but it's not non-sensical. So, quick thoughts on ramifications of this: 1. More tampering. 2. More transfers. 3. Grad transfers will decline dramatically, though the won't disappear. Since students will have one free transfer, I'd like to see one of three rules: a) a rule saying that if a player is a grad transfer, the school has to commit the scholarship for the ordinary time period of the graduate degree, regardless of whether the player stays for that entire period. So, for example, a two-year scholarship commitment if a player transfers and enrolls in an MBA program; Or b) the school loses a scholarship for a year if a player does a grad transfer (note by definition this will now be a second transfer) and does not complete the graduate degree. Or c) probably the simplest and most sensible, only one transfer without sitting, whether as a 'grad" transfer or not. 4. If this is accompanied by a crackdown on waivers of the sit rule for second time transfers, this will make transfers even more important, especially for mid-majors, since you'll know you can keep the player, whereas someone you recruit out of high school will bolt after a good season; but 5. If this is not accompanied by any change in the grad transfer rule, mid-majors will likely come out even worse.
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Post by fan on Oct 13, 2020 21:12:10 GMT -5
The sports industry in general is a mess, the NFL is a fraction what it was just last year, the virus and politics have really hurt the league, and the once solid base is not so solid anymore. College football has lost the fall, but when the virus goes away has a good chance of a strong comeback, people love their colleges and in some states rooting for the state school is rooting for their state.
Pro basketball really meaning nothing unless your home town team is in the play offs. College basketball could come out of this virus 'time' stronger than ever....the key is the "mid majors", when strong mid majors get a run in the NCAA in March, it seems like there is no other story.
One thing the NCAA should do (but they won't) is have all 300 plus teams in the March Madness, like the HS playoffs. It would only add another round, and that first week would be real Madness. In college basketball you still on any given night have a real under dog win a game, that's what makes the game so grat.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 14, 2020 6:40:47 GMT -5
For the most part, we've had this in effect this off-season, with the leniency that the NCAA has shown when granting waivers.
I agree with what others have said: We'll see more transfers, more tampering, and more disadvantages to mid major programs. I doubt we will see any additional rule changes, especially those that inconvenience the high majors.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2020 16:44:21 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 14, 2020 19:34:15 GMT -5
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 14, 2020 22:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2020 19:05:33 GMT -5
Here's a player who I'd like to see return home to play for us
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 16:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 6, 2021 14:19:16 GMT -5
Apparently "left the team for personal reasons" has become the new way to say "entering the transfer portal". Two high profile players, Houston second leading scorer Caleb Mills and WVU sophomore power forward Oscar Tshiebwe, announced a few days ago they were leaving their teams for personal reasons, but both hit the transfer portal today. Both are unexpected; both were starters on good teams.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 21:20:12 GMT -5
Another Michigan high schooler decides to transfer
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2021 16:54:51 GMT -5
Here's a player who I'd like to see return home to play for us Looks like Bowman is on his way back to Wisconsin
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Post by Rogobob77 on Mar 11, 2021 17:14:55 GMT -5
Tony Paul in the Detroit News: “State hoops: Oakland's future bright — if it can maneuver the transfer-portal minefield” www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2021/03/11/state-hoops-oaklands-future-bright-if-can-maneuver-transfer-portal-minefield/4649705001/Although the article focuses on Oakland, it has this to say about the Titans: “Detroit Mercy, which lost in the Horizon League quarterfinals to Northern Kentucky, is eyeing a big year next year, and might be safer from the portal given its best players include the coach's son, Antoine Davis, and several guys who've already transferred in. The only thing that figures to disrupt the Titans ascent is if coach Mike Davis gets looks from Power Five jobs and entertains them, which could cost Detroit Mercy Antoine, too.”
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