Right on Queue: If It Helps Uconn, Ban It

[WestHartHusk]

Now graduate transfers are under attack. Coach K calls it a "farce" while he leads a circle-jerk over a picture of Parker. I really can't stand college sports sometimes.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-uconn-men-0103-20140102,0,4611474.story

 

[Jerry1714]

Tons of programs utilize graduate transfers, especially in football, it will affect many programs

 

[Gurleyman]

Stunning quote. Players in that situation can't sit out a year - they've already missed a season (other than those on the Okafor acceleration plan) and you are only allowed 5 years to play 4 (unless you get two medical/personal hardship waivers). The only way for a guy like Evans to get his fifth year would be to take more undergraduate courses after already getting his degree or to slow down his academic progress so as to need five years to graduate. That would be the farce if you are trying to pretend that education has anything to do with what you're doing. As it is, you can only do it if you pick a field of study not offered by your undergraduate institution, which is baloney anyway. Maybe UConn has a better business school than the other place and you'd rather go there (or pick any field of study).

Maybe if they made that an exception and gave athletes a sixth year as a graduate transfer, it would give them a chance to finish a two-year graduate program.

 

[seanmc94]

I don't think K is targeting UCONN. I think its something he doesnt choose to utilize; so he wants it banned. Total d*ck move.
Russell Wilson doesnt get drafted if he is at NC State.

 

[BearJWS]

The funny part about this story is that Puke recruited Tarik Black hard, as a 5th year Senior transfer from Memphis. Black ended up at Kansas. Bitter grapes?

 

[huskyharry]

I think coach Ksuckchefski is correct that they are allowing way too many transfers with waiver of the sitting out requirement (some with ridiculous reasons for granting the waiver...reason given: I was accused of multiple episodes of sexual assault at my prior school, but they didn't have enough evidence to prosecute, so the NCAA says "sure son you can play right away"???) and I would have no problem with not allowing such waivers, except in the case of the 5th year player who graduated and now wants to pursue a grad degree at a new school.

It makes no sense for them to sit out: makes it much less likely for them to get a scholarship (neither of our guys would have been given two-year schollies for one year of play at UConn) and many Masters' programs are only one year or 18 months. Also, as has been pointed out, many schools, such as RJ at HC, do not have graduate programs.

I doubt that Coach K is saying that to affect UConn alone. He just has no interest in such players and wants to screw over any other school who school who could otherwise benefit.

 

[joober jones]

The funny part about this story is that Puke recruited Tarik Black hard, as a 5th year Senior transfer from Memphis. Black ended up at Kansas. Bitter grapes?

It's Duke we're talking about here. No grapes.

 

[David 76]

These days, when it is hard to get a basketball player to stay for a second year, why would you penalize someone who graduated and wants to go further? Coach K worried about the "epidemic" of former red-shirted, graduates that aren't going pro?

 

[mauconnfan]

Coach K is an arrogant for even saying this….his voice is loud and he knows it is. When his team becomes better with a move like this though all will be fine!

Heard some good stuff about the way he treated Alex Murphy too, almost chased him out for another 'ship with his persistence on degrading the kid……he's an a**!!

 

[FASTEDDY]

I think coach Ksuckchefski is correct that they are allowing way too many transfers with waiver of the sitting out requirement (some with ridiculous reasons for granting the waiver...reason given: I was accused of multiple episodes of s e xual assault at my prior school, but they didn't have enough evidence to prosecute, so the NCAA says "sure son you can play right away"???) and I would have no problem with not allowing such waivers, except in the case of the 5th year player who graduated and now wants to pursue a grad degree at a new school.

It makes no sense for them to sit out: makes it much less likely for them to get a scholarship (neither of our guys would have been given two-year schollies for one year of play at UConn) and many Masters' programs are only one year or 18 months. Also, as has been pointed out, many schools, such as RJ at HC, do not have graduate programs.

I doubt that Coach K is saying that to affect UConn alone. He just has no interest in such players and wants to screw over any other school who school who could otherwise benefit.

Its NOT COOL TO INSULT SOMEONE's HERITAGE by intentionally mispelling and trying tomake fun of his last name.
You may not like Coach K but no need to insult him or all people of Polish heritage.

 

[UConn3432]

the new Polish navy has glass bottom boats, to see to the old Polish navy.

 

[huskyharry]

Its NOT COOL TO INSULT SOMEONE's HERITAGE by intentionally mispelling and trying tomake fun of his last name.
You may not like Coach K but no need to insult him or all people of Polish heritage.

I certainly have and had no intention of insulting his Polish heritage.

However, it is common practice on the Boneyard to insult those who are arrogant, self-righteous s or have gotten away with blatant cheating or covered up and tolerated abhorent behavior (hence Kentucky is Kensucky, Syracuse is Syrabuse and Duke is Dook). Coach K is an arrogant, self-righteous . My approximation of his name was intended to be insulting to him personally and reasonably approximate its pronunciation. However, I will cease using it since yourself and perhaps others consider it ethnically insensitive and will change to the more ehtnically neutral Coach Ratface in the future.

 

[StoweD210]

Its NOT COOL TO INSULT SOMEONE's HERITAGE by intentionally mispelling and trying tomake fun of his last name.
You may not like Coach K but no need to insult him or all people of Polish heritage.

This concludes the 2014 Boneyard Sensitivity and Awareness Training.

Thank you for your participation. You will receive your certificates in the mail.

 

[cordeodato]

Aren't we talking about the kids that they love to call student athletes.
Anytime there is a tournament or a bowl game All the NCAA types are
student athlete this and student athlete that. Now we are talking about true
student athletes. Just leave them alone. Coach K is trying to game the system here, I find it tawdry
BTW FAST EDDY I always took the Coach K name misspelling to be an allusion to an old
Superman comic character and not related to ethnicity.

 

[David 76]

Coach Ratface offends all rodents

 

[SubbaBub]

There is nothing wrong with the current system. Once a player graduates, he owes the AD nothing.

This is about only NCAA rule that puts any incentive on academic achievement and K whines that he can't keep a kid ties down for his postgrad year? It's sad, really.

 

[UConnDan97]

I commented about this article on the football board, but I think it is important enough to reiterate; the NCAA and its coaches behave like pimps. They pretend as if they care about the welfare of the "student-athlete". They don't. They simply treat them like prostitutes, worried only about the money that they can take from their presence. All transfer rules are not created for the purpose of academic integrity; they are created so that the pimps can protect their turf.

Imagine what would happen to the suggestion that a college coach would have to wait one year out before coaching another NCAA institution! How far would that go? Would that be another "farce", Coach K? The entire league is the farce! Young men and women going on to further their education to a post-graduate degree is what "student-athlete" is all about...

 

[Burnsbros23]

Other schools have benefitted way more than us from this rule. don't think they are targeting us. Look at Iowa St with DeAndre Kane.

 

[David 76]

Where is the problem? They should spend their time ending homelessness or, at least, addressing serial coach offenders getting off scott-free (Calimari anyone?) rather than adressing a non-issue.

 

[caw]

Is there a player on Duke that is going to take advantage of this rule soon?

I guess if they are going to extend the fifth year transfers to 4 years of playing in six, it wouldn't be horrible. Would give kids a chance to go to any Masters program for free. That said, not sure there needs to be a rule change either.

 

[imno1]

Now graduate transfers are under attack. Coach K calls it a "farce" while he leads a circle-jerk over a picture of Parker. I really can't stand college sports sometimes.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-uconn-men-0103-20140102,0,4611474.story

I tell you what's a farce. That a college coach gets a big recruiting advantage by coaching USA basketball and the Olympic team.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Is there a player on Duke that is going to take advantage of this rule soon?

I guess if they are going to extend the fifth year transfers to 4 years of playing in six, it wouldn't be horrible. Would give kids a chance to go to any Masters program for free. That said, not sure there needs to be a rule change either.

I feel very safe saying the answer is no. If that was Duke's angle, Coach Kay would be arguing that it is a joke high school players are immediately eligible to play in college.

 

[mauconnfan]

Think he was pretty happy for Paulus to be able to play football right away at the Cuse a few years back wasn't he??

 

[TRest]

Why does Coach K hate America?

 

[August_West]

Coach K is an arrogant for even saying this….his voice is loud and he knows it is. When his team becomes better with a move like this though all will be fine! Heard some good stuff about the way he treated Alex Murphy too, almost chased him out for another 'ship with his persistence on degrading the kid……he's an a* !!

Not for nothing, because I detest that rat faced pr1ck as much as the next guy ( and since I'm getting older, instead of Viagra, I use the 2004 final four clip where he is apoplectic after not getting a foul call on a JJ drive at the end of the game , it gives me instant wood), but our esteemed HOF former coach played the " I got a better deal than you" scholarship trade off as well as anyone.