I really don't think there's even the slightest comparison between college and pro sports currently in terms of roster fluidity and unpredictability of players leaving. Pro coaches don't have to deal with anything even slightly like their college counterparts are dealing with now.
I’d like to suggest bifurcating this thread into two sections. The first one would be the actual transfers, and the second would be the people complaining/commenting about the transfers. It’s getting too much to sift through to find the actual news.
I'm just glad that there's a link in the OP of this thread to refer to and see what players have entered the transfer portal, sorted by conference and school.
Granted, she's from the western part of Canada, but what the heck...it will all be one state if a certain person has his way.
Bingo!
Only good thing that an ND person did this month....
Of the two sites you mentioned in your OP, Dillon77, do you have any sense of why they’re reporting such different numbers of players in the portal? On3 has the number at 1,199 (!) and Raoul has 636. Both say they were updated today.Only good thing that an ND person did this month....
It's true what you say about Aaliyah Edwards' participation in the 2021 Olympics, it would have been difficult for her to go to the U19 World Championship which followed immediately after the games. But she wouldn't have been too tired, as she barely played a minute in her entire Olympic tournament. Canada Basketball decided to give her the Olympic experience. I respect that decision, but I wonder if it was the right one. That year, Merissah Russell and Maggie Besselink also missed out on the U19 World Championship, as did Latasha Lattimore. You'll understand why I mention that for the U19 championship, Canada's representation is sometimes disappointing. I don't think Spain will be without Iyana Martin Carrion and Awa Fam this summer, given that they are playing professionally.
For context, that 2021 U19 was a challenging one as a whole for Canadian Basketball.
It seems that on3 is including every transfer announcement, where it looks as if Raoul's page only shows certain schools, however I'm not clear of the rhyme/reason for this. There have been times where I've looked for a particular school's recruiting page in a P5 conference, and it doesn't exist.
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They did on the same day.
This is one of how it feels to teach, minus the $ stuff, but work 100% and give your all to kids to be devalued many students and families and such dailyI just don't know how anyone would choose to be in the coaching profession any more. You work hard to build a team...and then half of them leave. On a yearly basis. It's almost pointless now. Every day I inch closer to just quitting following college sports. There's so much about it now that I do not like.
The puzzling thing to me is, both Howell and Heckel had to know they would be "low priority" players as long as JuJu was on the team. So why transfer out when a "starter" position is now available? Something else has to be the reason ... and it wouldn't be the fires. USC's campus isn't anywhere near the fire zones.
