Dom Amore: UConn coach Dan Hurley calls it ‘total chaos’ in college basketball as new rules allow flood of players into transfer portal

[bendm]

murray/whaley/polley >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transfer portal

 

[HuskyHawk]

A roster balanced across positions, skills and grades has historically been the right strategy for college coaches, but who knows in the era of the no-sit transfer? Maybe a school like UConn only offers top 100 recruits going forward and fills out the rest of its roster from the mid-majors, effectively using them as a farm system.

On the other hand, I think the current transfer system is so completely screwed up as to be unsustainable, so maybe coaches should not plan for it to be like this 4 years from now. Something will have to change going forward because this transfer system is a complete mess and is terrible for the kids it is trying to help.

The "current" transfer system is a one year thing. It won't be like this next year. Players will get one no sit transfer over the eligibility. Eligibility will not be 5 seasons as it was this year for seniors.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward, but I don't think we will see this chaos.

 

[Mooch82]

The "current" transfer system is a one year thing. It won't be like this next year. Players will get one no sit transfer over the eligibility. Eligibility will not be 5 seasons as it was this year for seniors.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward, but I don't think we will see this chaos.

Agreed...this year was a complete free for all with no restrictions. Next year, guys will have to think twice about whether they want to use their one and only transfer waiver....and most guys that really wanted out of their situations probably already got out this year. You'll still have the grad transfers and some "regular transfers" (mainly guys who will be freshmen this upcoming season) but it won't be nearly as much of an influx going forward.

 

[bendm]

Agreed...this year was a complete free for all with no restrictions. Next year, guys will have to think twice about whether they want to use their one and only transfer waiver....and most guys that really wanted out of their situations probably already got out this year. You'll still have the grad transfers and some "regular transfers" (mainly guys who will be freshmen this upcoming season) but it won't be nearly as much of an influx going forward.

since everyone gets the one-time waiver, i think the ncaa will be much more strict about granting discretionary waivers too.

for instance, if a player transfers using the waiver, but then his coach gets fired, will they let said player transfer again w/o redshirting as they have in the past? what about for family reasons? tough calls but they might make the player redshirt if he wants to transfer 2x.