Two-way contracts in college basketball?

[HooperScooper]

It'll never happen but credit to Dwayne Killings for thinking outside the box.

He wants down-transfers from bigger programs to come to UAlbany, with special favorable conditions attached for players: He'll develop them, help in their pursuit of a degree, and then after a year or two, send these players back to their initial high-major spot.

"We are speaking to coaches about identifying a player that, if he left the high-major ranks to come to Albany, a place with a recently renovated $16 million arena, to get the opportunity to develop through playing, this could present a partnership that could change college recruiting as we move into the post-House settlement area," Killings told CBS Sports. "The reason why this idea came about is become of my experience in the G League. During my time there, I watched a lot of players develop for the NBA. We're moving to a model like that in modern-day college basketball."

Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach's bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos

Albany's Dwayne Killings has a plan to bring a little more stability to programs decimated by players transferring out

www.cbssports.com

 

[jibsey]

It'll never happen but credit to Dwayne Killings for thinking outside the box.

He wants down-transfers from bigger programs to come to UAlbany, with special favorable conditions attached for players: He'll develop them, help in their pursuit of a degree, and then after a year or two, send these players back to their initial high-major spot.

"We are speaking to coaches about identifying a player that, if he left the high-major ranks to come to Albany, a place with a recently renovated $16 million arena, to get the opportunity to develop through playing, this could present a partnership that could change college recruiting as we move into the post-House settlement area," Killings told CBS Sports. "The reason why this idea came about is become of my experience in the G League. During my time there, I watched a lot of players develop for the NBA. We're moving to a model like that in modern-day college basketball."

Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach's bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos

Albany's Dwayne Killings has a plan to bring a little more stability to programs decimated by players transferring out

www.cbssports.com

Rating than warming the pine for 2 years this would make some sense. Of course there’s no guarantee the player would go back to their initial spot. What holds them to that?

 

[7774]

Rating than warming the pine for 2 years this would make some sense. Of course there’s no guarantee the player would go back to their initial spot. What holds them to that?

Probably the contract right?

 

[jibsey]

Probably the contract right?

I don’t know. Is a contract like that legal or even possible?

 

[LIuconn]

Like a loan deal in European soccer

 

[REB1094]

Would be great for the low major school, but why would the high major school say “this guy is a low major quality player, I should contractually tie one of my scholarships to him 3 seasons from now”?

 

[Jaydumo20]

Would be great for the low major school, but why would the high major school say “this guy is a low major quality player, I should contractually tie one of my scholarships to him 3 seasons from now”?

True. And all the other P4s/big east/ AAC schools would all have to agree that he is "just a project" because I'm sure at least one of the bigger schools would say "nope, I'll take him NOW", and he'd go with them.
Abraham would've been one such project for us, but Georgetown seemed to like him enough to swoop him up.

(it's just as easy to poke holes in this as it is for every other Portal "solution")

 

[BGesus4]

Raphael Chillious has an even better idea