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Message: [QUOTE="cabbie191, post: 3212122, member: 417"] I think it's important to pay attention to Oldude's thread title -[B][I][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)] are transfers[/COLOR][/I][/B] [B][I][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]bad for women's basketball?[/COLOR][/I][/B] [I][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]While he perhaps didn't directly state it this way, I read his post to pose the core question whether the transfers of top players are helping maintain a disparity between a small number of elite teams versus the majority of teams who will almost always be after thoughts - which is why Iowa's success last year was so refreshing. It really doesn't have much to do with fairness of players - there will always IMO be cases of unfairness. (And for the player who loses playing time to either a transfer or an incoming freshman, well to excuse a terrible pun, that's the way the ball bounces. Players are getting scholarships and thus a free education for their services; no guarantee of playing time.) Much has been written about increasing parity in the women's game and I think that most on this forum, as much as we'd like to see the Huskies continue to hoist championship banner and banner, understand that it is best for the overall health of the sport if others get to share in the glory now and then. I personally think the increase in transfer hurts in this regard.[/COLOR][/I] [/QUOTE]