Barry Henson - mid majors nothing but farm teams now

[KillerB]

From my Saluki friend.
Interview with Barry Hinson on the saluki pregame. He is the NIL director for oklahoma state.
Here are the highlights.

a. if he was coaching a mid major again, he would never recruit a high school player. they can't help you win soon enough, and if they can, they will leave as soon as they can. he would focus solely on juco's and the transfer portal.

b. if by some reason the greatest high school player in the world fell into his lap, he would demand they stay two years, and promise them that he would help them leave after that.

c. mid majors are nothing but a farm team now, basically the equivalent of a juco. at OSU, they have a graduate assistant whose job is to watch as many mid major games as he can during the year, and identify the best players so OSU can poach them. he says at bigger schools, they have paid staff people who do this.

[Da Coach]

From my Saluki friend.
Interview with Barry Hinson on the saluki pregame. He is the NIL director for oklahoma state.
Here are the highlights.

a. if he was coaching a mid major again, he would never recruit a high school player. they can't help you win soon enough, and if they can, they will leave as soon as they can. he would focus solely on juco's and the transfer portal.

b. if by some reason the greatest high school player in the world fell into his lap, he would demand they stay two years, and promise them that he would help them leave after that.

c. mid majors are nothing but a farm team now, basically the equivalent of a juco. at OSU, they have a graduate assistant whose job is to watch as many mid major games as he can during the year, and identify the best players so OSU can poach them. he says at bigger schools, they have paid staff people who do this.

Thanks for posting that. Barry is right, and I have been saying this for years.
But now with these major NCAA changes in the last few years, it has made it far easier for the big schools with the big money to poach players at-will from the mid-majors-
1) The transfer portal created in 2018
2) the No-penalty one-time transfer rule created 2021
3) the NIL/athlete pay rules, created 2022

It will only get worse...
The power-hungry big schools even tried pushing for players to be allowed an unlimited number of transfers without penalty-

https://news.scorebooklive.com/national/2022/07/21/ncaa-division-1-council-recommends-rule-change-allowing-multiple-transfers-without-penalty

Fortunately, the NCAA met in August and voted this change down for now. They will take this up again after they have had amore time to evaluate the effects of transfers on graduation rates. But I predict it will eventually happen, since it is what the big schools want.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2022-08-31/ncaa-division-i-board-adopts-changes-transfer-rules

[Tommy]

I'm not going to lie, this stuff is really sucking the excitement of BU basketball out of me, but in fairness we did fairly well compared to most mid-major teams last year, though losing Terry was a tough one to swallow.

Beyond that, I think it's almost impossible that we'll ever get another player like Elijah Childs to stick around for 4 years unless it's an international player. I'm assuming BW will increase his overseas recruiting due to the restrictions they have for being paid, but even with that, our ability to compete has taken a huge hit when the PC's will consistently fill their benches with the best players from the mid-majors every year.