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Rather interesting article: https://collegebasketball.nbcsports....ms-they-leave/
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My first BU hoops game was on 12/30/1963. My dad took me to watch the Braves defeat Arizona 67-59. He helped me get Coach Orsborn's autograph before the game. -
Thanks for finding that. It basically says what we all have known for years. The big schools use this grad-transfer rule to treat mid-majors like their farm system. And the players themselves use it as a way to play at a higher level or for their personal gain. It was originally claimed to be a noble rule designed to help kids play an extra year at a school that had a post-graduate curriculum that the player wanted to pursue for his career after college. However, I'll bet of the hundreds of grad-transfers each year, none of them transfers for the academic reasons initially claimed to be the reason for the rule.Originally posted by 64NIT View Post -
We live in a college basketball world where coaches make hundreds of thousands of dollars each year and up, and have the freedom to leave on a whim for greener pastures when bigger schools come calling. Why shouldn't the players have that same freedom as a grad transfer when they've done the right things, put in their time, and are able to graduate early? Should Sam Maniscalco have been blocked or forced to stay at BU? What's good for the coaches should also be good for the players.The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies... - John Walter WaylandComment
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but Phi - the players have ALWAYS had plenty of options to leave - nobody was ever forced to stay...
The kids have always been free to go to any other non-DI, or pay tyheir own way or appeal for a special waiver
(in Maniscalco's case, he may have gotten one because the President & AD here told him & his father they would not renew his scholarship for 2011-12)
the only rule we're talking about here is sitting out a year if you transfer to another DI - but the grad transfer rule has been present for a couple decades...
(it's just that almost nobody ever took advantage of it until the past decade)
But that rule was considered necessary to prevent the BIG BOYS from endlessly cherry-picking kids from smaller schools.
..and that's exactly what's happening with that article 64NIT linked - the big boys are hurting the midmajors and it would be a heckuva lot worse if nobody had to ever sit out a yearComment
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