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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4491240, member: 12088"] Sorry to pick on your post, since you probably don’t really mean this the way it came out. I don’t complain about transfers at all. I think the transfer system should be even freer than it already is for kids. What good does anyone think is really served by making kids stay at a school longer? As Miles Garett recently said about Jadeveon Clowney, “We want volunteers not captives.” Sure, more transfers may be bad for team culture and maybe program building, too. But that’s a coach’s problem or an AD’s problem. No point making kids fix it for them. I say this as a college professor: I don’t care if the kid has a scholarship. If they’re unhappy at a school it’s not right to punish them for looking elsewhere. Also, there’s lots that’s absurd about collegiate sports and the so-called student-athlete, but free transfers isn’t part of that problem. It may even ameliorate it. I may be an odd figure in this discussion since, as a teacher, I consider myself obligated to advocate for students not institutions, and especially when the structure of the institution is at odds with kids truly being students. Sure, scholarship athletes have lots of disincentives to being students. But that’s not a situation of their own making, and many of them are actually hindered by the athletic department from seriously studying. I saw this up close when I was at one of the UC campuses. There the sport was baseball and the coaching staff would actively intervene to prevent any challenging or even interesting assignments being given to their players. It wasn’t just about pressuring faculty to give phony grades. And the players were cowed by the coaches and afraid to express an academic interest. This is what the worst case looks like, and it’s not all that uncommon. I love watching WCBB, and I choose that one mainly because I can’t stomach some of the other college sports, like football or baseball or MCBB. WCBB is worlds better than them. [/QUOTE]

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