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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3114374, member: 1131"] If you look at what was eventually revealed about both the Bobby Knight (Indiana) and Mike Rice (Rutgers) cases, in fact the opposite seems to be true. Male players who are looking for the NBA contract and often need the scholarship more than women players do (because they come generally from more impoverished backgrounds and have fewer employment opportunities outside basketball) have little to no leverage against a college coach who abuses them, and they know it. We do see male players transferring on a frequent basis. You can speculate that in many cases they transferred to escape an abusive situation, but they never say that. In their perception, the abusive coach has too much power over their future (even after they leave the school) that they will not dare to say anything negative about him publicly. [/QUOTE]