Sure, but should you be able to pick any school you want and play basketball for them? Personally, I am not a fan of the grad transfer thing and view it simply as a loop hole. Reid Travis left Stanford to go to Kentucky. That was all about basketball and gaming the system. Not about education. I am cool if this joke stops.
lol, nothing about college football and college basketball is about education.
Understood. Which is why this grad transfer rule is even more ridiculous.
If you're worried about education then get rid of all of it.
Who is worried about education? There should be one transfer rule whether you graduate or not.
If you think the grad transfer rule was ever about an athlete earning a degree in something they couldn't get at the original school you're beyond naive
Bingo!!! Thats the point and its why the grad transfer rule is a farce. Those are their words, not mine. Its why I cringe every time they refer to the players in those post game NCAA press conferences as "student athletes". Its never about the kids education. So why have a different rule in place for some kid who graduated in three years?
It's only a farce because it's a joke that they limit the other players who transfer
Fair enough. The hell with structure. Personally, I believe these kids deserve compensation. Oddly, I feel like the commitment to the school is something they should honor. Live with the decisions you make. In that instance where its not a good fit or if a better basketball school comes calling, they should have to sit out a year.
Agreed on compensation. Personally I just have a hard time making a kid sit a year when he transfers when coaches can leave at any time without any penalty
Surely the coaches should also have to live with the decisions they made or sit out a year as well?
Well, I do believe coaches(and programs) should be held to a similar standard. But this is comparing apples to oranges. Why should Nate Oats be penalized for accepting a better job? So, in that case, any kid who committed to Nate Oats should be able to leave without penalty. Or if a school gets a tournament ban for activity prior to the kid signing his letter. But it still should have nothing to do with whether they graduated or not. Letting kids transfer with no recourse will be pure chaos. If so, whats stopping John Calipari from recruiting("paying") a top player from the Big East, AAC, or Pac12 when he missses on a 5 star to Duke? The trickle down effect will crush the sport.
I just don't see a difference between Nate Oats signing a contract at Buffalo, exceeding expectations and getting a bigger job for more money at Alabama and a kid going to Bucknell, exceeding expectations and playing really well, and getting a scholarship to Kentucky. If there's no reason for a coach to be penalized then I don't see the logic for an athlete to be penalized
Who said this kid exceeded expectations. Because he graduated there is a loophole in the rule that suggests he doesn’t have to sit out. It inflates his value. I am almost certain if that same kid from bucknell was a junior and had to sit out neither he nor Kentucky would be interested. The reason the schools wants change is because this infuriates mid major coaches. It makes the playing field even less fair.
