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RE: Thats a big reason why doing away with the transfer redshir
Posted on: September 13, 2017 at 09:50:59 CT
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There are an estimated 700-plus names on ESPN’s list of transfers for the 2016-17 season, but if you recognize more than a dozen of them you either run a recruiting service or have developed a hopeless hobby of spelunking through box scores.
Here is the truth about the transfer “epidemic”: The overwhelming majority of players who transfer move because they barely play at their current schools. That’s pretty much all there is to it. That doesn’t cover every transfer; some change schools because of academic issues, homesickness, family matters, personality conflicts. They transfer in isolated cases for the same reasons as non-athletes. Mostly, though, they transfer hoping to play.
That’s why so few names on that list are familiar. If you start at the top of ESPN’s list of transfers who left their programs in the spring to search for new opportunities, you won’t recognize a single name until you get to Marlon Alcindor, and it’s not anything he accomplished at St. Francis of New York that stops you there.
I’m not going to spend the entirety of my day going through every single player on the list, but I was willing to spend a portion going as far as the players whose names begin with the letter “C.” That covered 100 total athletes, from Patrick Ackerman (formerly of Detroit) to Jeremiah Curtis (who left Morgan State for El Camino College).
Of those 100 – two players were eliminated because they chose to play professionally -- 19 did not play at all last season; 73 averaged fewer than 12 minutes per game; 79 averaged fewer than five points. The median scoring average for the 81 players who saw at least some time: 2.6 points. Five players did not score at all.
Of the 100 players, 16 have not yet been updated with a new college. Of the 84 who have chosen a different school, more than two-thirds decided to leave Division I altogether. Roughly half will spend the next year in junior college, perhaps eventually to return, with half choosing new four-year colleges that do not compete at the highest level.
This is a crisis? This is an epidemic?
No. This is young people recognizing the initial decisions they made were not working for them in some way. In many cases, the athlete can be accused of impatience. But athletic eligibility is a finite resource. The NCAA provides each player with five years in which to play four seasons of intercollegiate basketball. Spending three of those seasons waiting for an opportunity to actually play the game does not appeal to everyone.
In some of these cases, the message inherent in that absence of playing time is that there might be a better place to find those minutes. And sometimes that message is delivered overtly: We don’t think you’re good enough to play here, but we’ll be happy to help you find somewhere you’ll be happy.
There are an estimated 700-plus names on ESPN’s list of transfers for the 2016-17 season, but if you recognize more than a dozen of them you either run a recruiting service or have developed a hopeless hobby of spelunking through box scores.
Here is the truth about the transfer “epidemic”: The overwhelming majority of players who transfer move because they barely play at their current schools. That’s pretty much all there is to it. That doesn’t cover every transfer; some change schools because of academic issues, homesickness, family matters, personality conflicts. They transfer in isolated cases for the same reasons as non-athletes. Mostly, though, they transfer hoping to play.
That’s why so few names on that list are familiar. If you start at the top of ESPN’s list of transfers who left their programs in the spring to search for new opportunities, you won’t recognize a single name until you get to Marlon Alcindor, and it’s not anything he accomplished at St. Francis of New York that stops you there.
I’m not going to spend the entirety of my day going through every single player on the list, but I was willing to spend a portion going as far as the players whose names begin with the letter “C.” That covered 100 total athletes, from Patrick Ackerman (formerly of Detroit) to Jeremiah Curtis (who left Morgan State for El Camino College).
Of those 100 – two players were eliminated because they chose to play professionally -- 19 did not play at all last season; 73 averaged fewer than 12 minutes per game; 79 averaged fewer than five points. The median scoring average for the 81 players who saw at least some time: 2.6 points. Five players did not score at all.
Of the 100 players, 16 have not yet been updated with a new college. Of the 84 who have chosen a different school, more than two-thirds decided to leave Division I altogether. Roughly half will spend the next year in junior college, perhaps eventually to return, with half choosing new four-year colleges that do not compete at the highest level.
This is a crisis? This is an epidemic?
No. This is young people recognizing the initial decisions they made were not working for them in some way. In many cases, the athlete can be accused of impatience. But athletic eligibility is a finite resource. The NCAA provides each player with five years in which to play four seasons of intercollegiate basketball. Spending three of those seasons waiting for an opportunity to actually play the game does not appeal to everyone.
In some of these cases, the message inherent in that absence of playing time is that there might be a better place to find those minutes. And sometimes that message is delivered overtly: We don’t think you’re good enough to play here, but we’ll be happy to help you find somewhere you’ll be happy.
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RE: Thats a big reason why doing away with the transfer redshir - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:50:59