Power Conferences want new transfer rule

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and it's pretty clear what they are after...they want to literally be able to grab at any time - a kid from a mid-major but have rules in place to help prevent them from ever losing a player...

"College leaders consider new transfer rule
The leaders of big-time college sports agree that transfer rules need to better accommodate players.

The wealthiest college football conferences ??” Big 12, Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference, Pac-12, Southeastern Conference ??”
are willing to work with all of Division I to come up with a solution, but they also want the power to make their own transfer rules
if need be as part of an autonomy structure the NCAA is moving toward.

That worries the schools outside those powerful leagues, concerned they'll be in danger of losing their best players to the Big Five.

"I still haven't gotten a good answer as to why transfer rules have been included in the autonomy bucket,"
said SMU Athletic Director Rick Hart, whose school plays in the American Athletic Conference, one of the other five leagues
in the top tier of college football knows as FBS. "I'm hopeful that will remain something that is voted upon by the entire membership."

http://www.columbiatribune.com/sports/college-leaders-consider-new-transfer-rule/article_d9ed3d14-f9c1-11e3-8258-10604b9f1ff4.html

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Here's another thing the power conference will start doing to give them a big recruiting advantage..
They will begin offering the recruits they want guaranteed 4-year scholarships. I hope this blows up in their faces as they land kids who are duds...

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24595262/usc-bucks-trend-will-now-offer-four-year-scholarships

[AZ BU Fan]

They'll just make up some other rule to bail them out of duds.... Probably figure out a way to make smaller schools pay for their tuition costs.

Allowing duds to transfer out anywhere with no penalty will help ease the number of duds who stick around outside the bb program staying at the school.

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Big Ten now proposes making freshmen ineligible...

"The Big Ten statement followed the Pac-12, which a few weeks earlier
released its own recommendations for change. That included a proposal to
make freshmen ineligible in football and basketball ..

As far as freshmen ineligibility in football and basketball, Burke says, ???You
have to look at that. If you look at the eligibility data, as I have, and the
graduation rate data, as I have, and if you're really being truthful with the

student athlete, maybe you have to seriously consider it.
???I think the data would support a year of readiness, then a full four years
of eligibility after it. It's not because we're picking on those two sports, but
because in those sports, athletes are coming into the (college academic)
system at a much lower preparation level than the other sports. That has
to get talked about."

http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140628/SPORTS/140629692

they believe it benefits everyone and can put more of their guys in the pros

[AZ BU Fan]

Frosh ineligible also helps NFL & NBA can help keep youngsters out of the pros one year longer.

[Indy_BB]

That is fantasy land.

Without total conformance across the top, probably, 10 or so conferences, players would simply steer clear of those leagues because they ALL want to play right away.

Players that would've gone OSU go to Cincy. Iowa to Iowa State....And on and on.

The league would stop being competitive and money would dry up. Which is the reason it is fantasy land. ALL of this is about the money.

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The power conferences and top schools already make almost all of the money and the little guys like the Alcorn States, and party crashers to the Final Four like Wichita, Butler, etc...are already just scraping by......

yet the BCS-boys still want more even if it destroys Division I as we know it...
they want to eat the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Here's another thing the power conference will start doing to give them a big recruiting advantage..
They will begin offering the recruits they want guaranteed 4-year scholarships. I hope this blows up in their faces as they land kids who are duds......

looks like this is occasionally blowing up in some schools' faces...

here's an example - Northwestern thought they had a recruiting coup by locking in a highly rated kid named
Johnnie Vassar to a full, guaranteed four year scholarship..

But the warning signs were there as this kid had hopped around to several high schools & prep schools and been booted from La Lumiere- LINK LINK LINK LINK
Then, no sooner does he enroll as a freshman at Northwestern - then he doesn't like his role, doesn't like his playing time, and doesn't like the coach...so he quits the team...
And everyone thought he'd leave and Northwestern could use his scholarship to land someone else...

BUT --- whoa....why would this kid wanna give up a 4-year full ride to Northwestern that easily -- so he returned in the fall and he's still there -
...simply hogging that scholarship and not willing to give it up but certainly not interested in playing ball for Head Coach Chris Collins!

"Scholarships are four-year scholarships now," Collins said. "So as long as
[Vassar] wants to be a student here, we made that commitment to him. So
the ball is in his court...."

http://www.insidenu.com/2015/11/2/9656852/johnnie-vassar-northwestern-transfer-scholarship-chris-collins

so Northwestern was unable to use the scholarship for the kid they thought they had recruited for it..(they even tried to lure Peyton Allen to take the scholarship)
"Collins had been recruiting class-of-2015 prospect Kipper Nichols (to replace Vassar)...
...However, Vassar chose to remain in school at Northwestern, meaning the Wildcats never did have a spot for Nichols."

I guess you get what you bargain for...

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Northwestern's Chris Collins has some insulting stuff to say about mid-majors, claiming they are holding players back academically just to prevent more of them from seeking to become grad-transfers that the bigger schools like Northwestern can poach. But then he complains about other teams poaching his players!

"Chris Collins on grad transfers:
Mid-majors hold players back academically

"So you know what’s happening now at all mid-major programs? They don’t let their kids go to summer school. They don’t let them get ahead. They won’t let ‘em graduate. Is that what upper level education is all about?"

"..... now guys are poaching guys in the middle of seasons. Can you imagine a time where Duke doesn’t have a point guard because Tyus Jones goes pro, and so a week before school, they’re on my campus and [saying], ‘okay, we need Bryant McIntosh.’ And a week later he leaves. I don’t think that’s a good thing for college sports...."

http://www.insidenu.com/2016/5/30/11810024/chris-collins-grad-transfers-mid-majors-academics-summer-school-graduate

BTW- He is being quite hypocritical, since Northwestern POACHED Bryant McIntosh from Indiana State!
LINK


BTW- Chris Collins...
Northwestern's latest APR (Academic Progress Rate) was 979..
that would have finished BEHIND multiple MVC teams!
Bradley - 985
SIU - 986
Northern Iowa - 995

On another measure...last year's Graduation Success Rate..
Northwestern 82 - Loyola 100, Drake 90, ISU 88, etc..

but I guess when you go 80 years without making the NCAA Tournament and now your best players are all gone - the mind plays tricks on you.

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looks like this is occasionally blowing up in some schools' faces...

here's an example - Northwestern thought they had a recruiting coup by locking in a highly rated kid named
Johnnie Vassar to a full, guaranteed four year scholarship..

But the warning signs were there as this kid had hopped around to several high schools & prep schools and been booted from La Lumiere- LINK LINK LINK LINK
Then, no sooner does he enroll as a freshman at Northwestern - then he doesn't like his role, doesn't like his playing time, and doesn't like the coach...so he quits the team...
And everyone thought he'd leave and Northwestern could use his scholarship to land someone else...

BUT --- whoa....why would this kid wanna give up a 4-year full ride to Northwestern that easily -- so he returned in the fall and he's still there -
...simply hogging that scholarship and not willing to give it up but certainly not interested in playing ball for Head Coach Chris Collins!

"Scholarships are four-year scholarships now," Collins said. "So as long as
[Vassar] wants to be a student here, we made that commitment to him. So
the ball is in his court...."

http://www.insidenu.com/2015/11/2/9656852/johnnie-vassar-northwestern-transfer-scholarship-chris-collins

so Northwestern was unable to use the scholarship for the kid they thought they had recruited for it..(they even tried to lure Peyton Allen to take the scholarship)
"Collins had been recruiting class-of-2015 prospect Kipper Nichols (to replace Vassar)...
...However, Vassar chose to remain in school at Northwestern, meaning the Wildcats never did have a spot for Nichols."

I guess you get what you bargain for...

This is getting interesting....

Now highly touted recruit Johnnie Vassar is suing Northwestern Univ. for inhibiting his choice to transfer

http://www.insidenu.com/2016/11/14/13632630/johnnie-vassar-northwestern-lawsuit-antitrust-ncaa-northwestern-basketball-chris-collins-transfer

something interesting as well....
some of the other players who also allegedly were harrassed and left were forced to sign NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS - meaning they cannot speak about what went on at Northwestern!

http://www.insidenu.com/2016/4/1/11340726/northwestern-basketball-walk-ons-nick-segura-aaron-liberman-reggie-hearn-james-montgomery

Northwestern also is still fighting appeals over this lawsuit ....

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/13455477/nlrb-says-northwestern-players-cannot-unionize

...but no Big Ten school has as many lawsuit issues as Penn State and Illinois...it's just the world we live in nowadays...

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/5/18/8623499/illinois-womens-basketball-players-allege-racism-abuse-from-coaches

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/bye-bye-beckman-illinois-settles-one-lawsuit-avoids-another/

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/17/lawsuit-by-ex-coach-against-penn-state-set-to-get-underway.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-university-of-illinois-lawsuit-sex-harassment-met-20150901-story.html

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The details of the Johnnie Vasser transfer lawsuit

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bdavidridpath/2016/11/21/vassar-lawsuit-against-northwestern-shows-there-is-much-more-to-do-in-increasing-athlete-rights/2/#bc4030cf7c1c