2026 Transfer portal

[DEFCONN1]

Being women’s college basketball has turned into a big business for, free enterprise operation for the athletes, why doesn’t the college’s involved sign the athletes to a four year binding contract or however many years for a transfer athlete. Any answers to this query would be greatly appreciated and I’m certain informative.

 

[UConnGabby]

Texas scored 76+ against all of the top teams you mentioned and played the #2 toughest schedule in the country. The stats aren't getting padded against trash teams. Their lowest point total on the season was 64 points prior to the Final Four.

And aside from the Final Four disaster it was never solely the Booker show against good teams. In 13 of their 14 games against Sweet 16 opponents, someone else besides Madison scored 14+ for them. And in 7 of the 14 games someone other than Booker led the team in scoring. Based on your comments I'm guessing you didn't watch Texas at all this year aside from the Final Four. Texas was a very good offensive team this season.

And it's rich that a UCONN fan is calling another coach a whiner after the antics Geno pulled last weekend.

 

[cancontent]

Being women’s college basketball has turned into a big business for, free enterprise operation for the athletes, why doesn’t the college’s involved sign the athletes to a four year binding contract or however many years for a transfer athlete. Any answers to this query would be greatly appreciated and I’m certain informative.

In an earlier post I shared a video from College Game Day this past weekend where the contract question was discussed amongst ESPN analysts and Coach Calipari. Per Jay Bilas, who is also a lawyer, does a good job at breaking it down.

Here's a longer clip from the show. Jump to 6:55 where it starts to be discussed.

 

[BRS24]

Folks, we're talking about transfers here. Transfers. If you want to have debate about Geno, Vic, or anything else, perhaps start a DM with that person, ok? Cool.

 

[cancontent]

 

[Dillon77]

TCU up to two so far. Both Grant and Somfai have multiple years of eligibility, which is different than Miles and Suarez.

 

[HuskyNan]

Being women’s college basketball has turned into a big business for, free enterprise operation for the athletes, why doesn’t the college’s involved sign the athletes to a four year binding contract or however many years for a transfer athlete. Any answers to this query would be greatly appreciated and I’m certain informative.

There used to be a contract called a National Letter of Intent that is now defunct. The below is an AI generated response to a query about NLIs. I know this is half an answer to your question but honestly I think universities are making their own contracts now so I’m not sure how to answer

 

[Dillon77]

And UCLA Cori Close wastes no time finding a PG for next year's version of the Bruins, signing Bonnie Deas from Arkansas, who was recruited by former Razorback Coach Mike Neighbors and chose to honor her commitment after he was fired, even if for just one year.

 

[LwrcasefaN]

I hear where you're coming from but I don't think the players going their separate ways meant that they didn't truly care about each other after all. Given the implosion of the PAC-12, maybe the players got together and decided that it was in their best interest to make decisions that were in their individual best interests. Maybe they saw that as "having each other's back."

Exactly. Even siblings at some point venture out on their own .