bull_trojan

His coach at Missouri got fired. How many schools are on their 3rd+ coach in 3-4 years?

taking the shot with 13 seconds left with the shot clock off is the 2nd most devastating 13 seconds in my life.

I don't think institutions see this as a problem. The major issue will arise if NIL money eats away at institutional donors and sponsorships. This hasn't happened yet. If anything, I think donations are up..which makes sense, Syracuse W Basketball, USC Football, and other cases, pay the buyout, fire the loser coach, buy a new coach AND get an instant infusion of better players. Money well spent. Will constant roster churn impact ticket sales? I would think no. Ultimately you root for whoever is in the laundry.

The tragic thing for me is the P5 (and/or every journalist in NY went to Syracuse) bias. If kept Jack, Fair, Wooley, McEvans etc it wouldn't have made a blip. Put those pieces on Syracuse and there is a noticeable buzz. Is this on us? Do we need a cheerleader ADDW type that pumps up our teams? Or is this just one of many growing straws that will ultimately break the G5 camel's back?

I think it's clever...FLJ talks about her "recommitting to her" in a time when so many players are decommitting via portal. Now when FLJ goes to talk to a star transfer or 5 star senior, she can say my star, Fair spent two years with me, then visited the best of the best, and she still felt this was family and the best place for her...and it will be for you too.

I got into USC the february before graduation, but I'm old enough for that to have been before everyone started decorating their mortar boards...but had there been decorations I would have probably put the SC on it. Now I haven't been welcomed back with open arms, but thats probably for other reasons lol.

True, but then at least you're bringing in freshmen who are committed to at least 2 years, and hoping they stay for 4 or 5 like CJ Massinburg or Khalil Mack...instead of freshmen who you recruit and play only for them to leave immediately like Woolley. What is the value of recruiting a freshman 1-year rental? Obviously, in this case, it helped UB WBB get a ring, but you could have also gotten that productivity from a grad transfer with less resources and less coaching time put into building the player up.

I spent some part of my career monitoring Satisfactory Academic Progress. If you fail or withdraw from too many courses, you lose your financial aid eligibility. Regular students withdraw and transfer all the time, sickness, parent issues, homesickness, lack of money...and they tend to fly blind, with no advice. Athletes losing semesters via transfer is in no way an issue, because they generally have people advising them throughout the process. When I was in grad school, I wrote about re-instating the ban on 1st year participation that was killed in 1972. Let freshmen come in and do 3 days of practice instead of 5 or 6, do not allow them on the sidelines on game day, let them sit in the stands. Get them a good start on their academics, and let them become part of the community first, THEN let them become athletes working for that community. No way the NCAA does this now, but maybe mid majors should consider it...vs playing a freshman and having him/her have no connection to anything outside the gym and then transferring.

I guess I have a different definition of "resume" we're talking 1 good D1 year.

No, I expected Mid-Major or Higher AC. But I'm just shocked that people are gushing about her resume. 2 years at D1, high NET rank of 223 (based on NET if USC-Up was in the MAC, they'd be 11th between Miami OH (218) and EMU (242)). Flame out in the conference tourney. It's risky bet on young upside to me, not the impressive proven resume hire.

NAIA coach D2 Coach and a first round exit in the Big South tourney as a 3 seed. I'm not impressed

Coaches are saving scholarships "just in case" for transfers Men have 13 scholarships, and really only 10 guys getting playing time, in the past I could give 3 walk-on's scholarships or take a chance on a freshman. Now I might want to just let those 3 scholarship sit on the shelf, just in case someone talented is interested in transferring. So coaches are artificially creating the scarcity, then citing the scarcity as the reason why the players are wrong.

I would have liked a quicker resolution. That said if I talked to the players and they said they would follow FLJ, then I would hold off on hiring anyone, to protect them from the inevitable "she couldn't keep the roster" as AD I'd take the arrows, "we wanted to do a thorough nationwide search and unfortunately some student athletes transferred during the process, however after that search I'm confident that Assistant Coach X will rebuild."

Wasn't the East/West/G-Club in there?

Sadly not everyone has honor. I'm still bitter about getting burned on one of these deals (Karma handled it tho). No real remedy for us middies when the big dogs tamper, maybe you negotiate a larger buyout, but pretty much it's best to move on and focus on your new coach than look like you're fighting over sour grapes.