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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2543843, member: 5798"] You said: [B][I]"I also think it would be much harder to coach if there was not a one year wait period. Sometimes you have to live with your decisions, or at the least the consequences." [/I][/B] I agree to a certain extent.[B][I] [/I][/B] There is a lot of rhetoric on both sides of the aisle on this topic. Perhaps a policy that would allow transfers to play right away might work. The question is work for whom? I'm very cynical when it comes to trusting and relying on the integrity of some college basketball coaches. Any policy change that would allow a player to transfer to another program of his/her choice the next year without having to sit out a year, must also include severe penalties for tampering, such as a loss of scholarships and being exempt from accepting any transfers for a year or two (or three). That penalty would also follow that coach if he/she were to relocate to another division one program in any capacity for the remainder its duration. I'd like to think that no coach would "TAMPER" with, or try and "coax" a player from another program to come play for him/her. The Cynic in me does not believe this would never happen. I can see claims by coaches that another coach TAMPERED with one or more of his/her players in any given year. I'm not impugning the integrity of coaches (people) I don't know and have never met, however, I'm not quite convinced that this sort of thing would/could never happen either. With the pressure these coaches are under to recruit the best players available, win games, and go deep into the tournament every year (to try and keep their jobs), it would be very tempting for them to push the envelop almost to its breaking point, to get as many of the best players they can. This rule would not affect the one and dones for obvious reasons. But it would the rest of the players (in men's basketball). They may also wish to include a caveat that a team could not accept more than 1 transfer player per season. Other wise you'd have wholesale changes and movement among the top 40? men's programs. Of course there would be movement throughout division one teams, but the most significant would be among those teams vying to win the national championship every year. The rich would get richer. The lower tier programs could set their sights on the WNIT /WBI in November because those will be the only post season tournaments most of them would have a chance of qualifying for. It would be very interesting to see how a change of this nature would effect the women's game. It's possible there would be a lot more movement than there has been, but not to the extent of the men's game. Unless and until they can come up with something fair (equitable) and almost "foolproof", I like the system the way it is. After all, the rule is designed to prevent indiscriminate movement between teams by players. For those that think the current system is unfair, it could be worse. What if they said you can't get that 5th year if you sit out? What if the rule was: You have 4 years to complete your 4 years of eligibility. If you transfer and sit out a year, you lose that year, now you have only 2 left (if you leave after your freshman year, 1 if you leave after your sophomore year), and you can't leave after your junior because your 4 years would have expired. That rule would significantly cut down on the transfers. The only exception for this rule being for [B]medical [/B]reasons.[B] [/B]Thoughts?.................................... [/QUOTE]

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