Big Ten Proposes Free Transfer

[Kenny11]

I would be ok with this if poaching players from other teams during the season from a coach or assistant, even indirectly, carried a huge penalty like a one year suspension or even a termination of the head coach regardless of who on staff was involved. Kids should be able to transfer without penalty but coaches shouldn’t have to worry about their players being recruited during the season.

 

[HooperScooper]

Ah the refuge of anyone with a bad argument. Take your ball and go home. Cool man!

Well because I don't really care to argue on a message board. It's pointless. I have an opinion and other people have opinions. I don't mind stating mine and I don't mind reading the opinions of others. But I hate arguing on here. There's enough of that already and I just don't care to do it any more.

And don't be a jerk about it just because I won't engage you in an argument. If you have to feel like you won, then you won. Feel better?

 

[Hurleyman216]

Another thing this would do is de-value recruiting. If you have a coaching staff that can identify under the radar guys and you aren’t a blue blood then you’re just setting yourself up for losing guys. I guess with Hurley as our coach I would like our chances of keeping recruits because guys generally seem to respect coach and want to play for him. One thing about college sports that I like more than professional is that there is some loyalty to a school or program (even if it is slightly forced by the transfer rules). If this gets pushed through they might as well make it the NBA, pay the players and allow trades as well. Most of the schools will end up not having b-ball programs as only the top 30-40 schools will have enough $$ to thrive and sustain their programs. Like most “free markets” the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and there will be not much in the middle.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Another thing this would do is de-value recruiting. If you have a coaching staff that can identify under the radar guys and you aren’t a blue blood then you’re just setting yourself up for losing guys. I guess with Hurley as our coach I would like our chances of keeping recruits because guys generally seem to respect coach and want to play for him. One thing about college sports that I like more than professional is that there is some loyalty to a school or program (even if it is slightly forced by the transfer rules). If this gets pushed through they might as well make it the NBA, pay the players and allow trades as well. Most of the schools will end up not having b-ball programs as only the top 30-40 schools will have enough $$ to thrive and sustain their programs. Like most “free markets” the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and there will be not much in the middle.

This is picking up steam again. It's all over Twitter. Rothstein and others talking about it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is picking up steam again. It's all over Twitter. Rothstein and others talking about it.

More. ACC joins B1G in supporting this. "The current system is unsustainable".

Inside the NCAA on Twitter

“Division I student-athletes in all sports could have the opportunity to compete immediately after transferring one time if a proposed change to waiver guidelines is adopted by the Division I Council this spring. https://post original url/Es7MfhHLj4”

twitter.com

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Free agency will be good for about 10-20% of the players, and really bad for the rest of them. It will be a lot easier for a coach to pull scholarships for players that he thinks are underperforming, if he can just grab an experienced transfer that will be eligible the next season. Every player will be looking over his shoulder the whole season. Which will quickly turn into no one being committed to anything because they can leave whenever they want. Players don't just commit to a school and a coach, they commit to their teammates. But that will be impossible in a free agency system.

Also, there will be intense pressure to cheat in a free agency system. A coach on the hot seat will have to get top talent in free agency, which means he will have to pay up, getting the talent by whatever means necessary. How many Enoch's will there be around the country in that environment?

I am in favor of making transfer rules more player friendly. Remove the "4 in 5" requirement. Make more exceptions for immediate eligibility. For example, I would be in favor of a minutes requirement or a player can change schools immediately. If a school isn't going to play a kid, then that kid should be allowed to leave without penalty.

I am not in favor of open free agency.

 

[BlueMAB]

A one time transfer without a punishment isn't open free agency.

 

[intlzncster]

I'll repeat what I said on the football version of this post.
I don't like it. In my cynical view, this is so the big dogs can pick the cherries off the lower teams and send their own cherry pits back. Rich get richer with no penalty and the smaller school likely loses out in the exchange.
Great for the student athletes, absolutely awful for "G5" schools.

To piggy back on this. All this does is make a free developmental system for top schools. Lesser schools can take lesser talent, with the diamonds in the rough and/or developmental guys, put in the work, and when it comes time to reap the benefit, lose those kids to marquee teams.

Great for the kids yes, but bad for the sport. Gotta balance the two somehow

 

[HuskyHawk]

Free agency will be good for about 10-20% of the players, and really bad for the rest of them. It will be a lot easier for a coach to pull scholarships for players that he thinks are underperforming, if he can just grab an experienced transfer that will be eligible the next season. Every player will be looking over his shoulder the whole season. Which will quickly turn into no one being committed to anything because they can leave whenever they want. Players don't just commit to a school and a coach, they commit to their teammates. But that will be impossible in a free agency system.

Also, there will be intense pressure to cheat in a free agency system. A coach on the hot seat will have to get top talent in free agency, which means he will have to pay up, getting the talent by whatever means necessary. How many Enoch's will there be around the country in that environment?

I am in favor of making transfer rules more player friendly. Remove the "4 in 5" requirement. Make more exceptions for immediate eligibility. For example, I would be in favor of a minutes requirement or a player can change schools immediately. If a school isn't going to play a kid, then that kid should be allowed to leave without penalty.

I am not in favor of open free agency.

It will suck in some ways, but it is only one time and the alternative is the NCAA micromanaging and making judgment calls. If a kid makes a mistake and isn't happy (Sid Wilson) making him sit out is just stupid.

So yes, not idea for the reasons listed, but the current system is awful.