Transfer Portal/Recruiting news

The market will reset itself. Especially after coaches are continually getting burned by million dollar players who bail for the next pot of gold after 1 season and the big winning just doesn't happen because it's all mercenaries now and who cares about winning?  Few of these guys are picking their next school because of school or anything remotely close to education. There will have to be compromise from players and coaches alike to make this mess a little more reasonable.

I'm basically for the short term cash supplement for the majority of players. Not so much for the players headed to the NBA.

The reality may be the P4 is a pro league. But even there they need limitations, call it a salary cap, a "rookie" pay scale. This will otherwise destroy college sport. It very soon will destroy the cash cow if the NCAA tourney. The days of BSU fighting in the Great 8 are already long gone ...

A modest amount of parity is preserved in the pros.

Now Sherm, I’m talking very specifically about players who are school hopping multiple times chasing the money. im skeptical that winning is primary for that category of players. Did two of our defections select Incarnate Word for all the winning? And the majority of players you mentioned in the sports you mentioned typically sign multi year contracts with specific teams. Other than one season rent a players.   College athletes are becoming 1 season rent a players who aren’t bound by a contract and some of those guys are on their 4th schools because there’s no longer a rule saying they can’t do that.  It’s about business decisions now more so than “I picked this program because they win and I want to win.”   It’s why you see high level players leaving a place like Duke, where all they do is win, for other places that are more unstable, because money.  

The ONLY thing that keeps coaches from jumping upwards for more money after a year is that such opportunities usually require more than a one year track record to earn.  How often do you hear of a coach passing up the offer of a bigger payday at a higher level school?  Basically never.

Coaches, who have always been pretty well paid (sometimes obscenely well paid) and who have always shown a strong tendency to move upwards at any opportunity, should definitely STFU about players chasing money.

Coaches HAVE to care about winning if they want to last a long time as head coaches. (except at BSU, where we reward losing....) The players I'm talking about now don't have to give a whit (pun intended) about winning because they're getting paid and then moving on to the next payday regardless of team results. How else do guys in BAD MAC programs get to leave for money after a losing season or multiple losing seasons.) A coach is not going to continue to get that next payday if he isn't all about winning.

Sure, college athletes are all competitive.

Nobody is saying the players transferring are not.

But is that their motive to transfer? It does appear some may indeed want to move to play in higher competition. Money not that important. Maybe.

cardfan and I aren't going to argue that either.

It is however clear many are not moving to compete at any different level, or moving for more PT, or for different development opportunity, or any other competitive motive. Many are moving where the significant difference is just money.

I don't blame them in most cases. In some, it just isn't good for college basketball.

Your logic that these players must in fact be more competitive is specious.

Being competive helps make a player at any given ability level better, but none of these million dollar players are more competitive than Taylor Persons. He would be in the NBA if your theory correct.