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Message: [QUOTE="Bald Husky, post: 5264042, member: 11020"] When Curt Flood challenged major league baseball decades ago, baseball was never the same because any player could go to any team that wanted them. Enter free agency. Now, college basketball, men and women, is going through the same transformation, and unfortunately it will never be the same. In the last 10 or so years, parity has reached the sport, with so many more teams getting good enough to challenge for a national championship. Now, it's changed again. In this year's men's tournament, all #1 seeds made it to the final four, and in the womens side, three #1 teams made it, with UConn, the only non-#1 team taking the prize after the tournament. The portal, college basketballs free agencey, has ruined the parity in the sport. Mid-major stars, great players in non-P4 conferences, are being recruited to the high level teams, the rich teams, the popular teams, the teams with the dynamic coaches, or other top ranked players. I understand that there are circumstances that some players need to change schools, bad culture, bad or abusive coach, or a reason that is just academic. Now, it's unbelievable that players on good teams, with a good future are leaving just for the hell of it, with no reason other than going to a team that can win a national championship, or even worse in my opinion, the money. I believe in NIL, but it all is out of control. The NCAA has to come up with something that will slow down all the movement, not get rid of it, but have some kind of rule that will just limit the number of schools that a player can play for. This is college for Gods sake, they are there for the education, so get it, unless of course the kid doesn't care about the education, just how they can make more money while in school but not realizing that their basketball skill will only go so far. I just think these kids have to be smarter, and look what's in their long-range future, not just the short range. [/QUOTE]

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