Yikes - read down to Pomeroy's reply about how inaccurate the numbers are - but still, even if it's more like ~30% overall that's wild
Portal to nowhere
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Not surprising at all if you understand coaches.
I don't blame coaches at all anymore. The players get paid and are leaving whenever
they want.
they want.
If I'm on scholarship and about to graduate in a year from Rutgers no coach is forcing me me out so that I can transfer and graduate from Elon (example only) or worse, not find a spot at any school.
No issue with it. The players want to pretend they're professional athletes and have all these rights blah blah blah. No issue with coaches running kids off. Never have had that issue tbh.
Looking at the 247 portal site, of the 137 uncommitted guards, 78 of them have no rating on the site... which means there's a good chance they were either walk-ons or projects last year. I don't think any site out there lists whether a player was on scholarship the prior year or not.
Exactly.
There are 358 D1 teams. The tweet says there 1815 players who entered the portal. That’s an average of 5 players per school. It’s hard to believe that that many scholarship players entered the portal with almost half (45%) not finding a place.
Factor in that teams still have players using Covid years and new frosh coming in, this seems highly likely to occur. You can’t hold five years worth of players.
The basic supply demand law.
The basic supply demand law.
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So no .
Easy to make comments about situation you know nothing about . Who is the example of someone transferring to Elon and having to graduate from there that you reference ?
Willing to bet a majority of the kids who did not find a home are :
1) Back of the roster rotation players without schollys who took a long shot and then didn’t end up finding a place.
2) Kids who transferred down to D3, JUCO or obscure college programs that the recruiting sites don’t have the info.
1) Back of the roster rotation players without schollys who took a long shot and then didn’t end up finding a place.
2) Kids who transferred down to D3, JUCO or obscure college programs that the recruiting sites don’t have the info.
You also have all the covid year kids who have the extra year, if your a coach and you have a scholarship bench player that has a degree and you choose not to renew a scholarship is that running someone off? Certainly not in the traditional sense
If you are going to transfer you're crazy to enter the portal without having firmed up your destination beforehand.
If your advisor , agent , parent------whoever didn't tell you that they did you a disservice.
If your advisor , agent , parent------whoever didn't tell you that they did you a disservice.
Before NIL, I had a big problem with coaches running off scholarship athletes.
It’s not that simple. Players who coaches want to leave aren’t the ones getting much NIL, if any at all.
I'll stick with my mantra:
As-is the portal and NIL are NOT good for collegiate athletics. They're a ******* disaster.
As-is the portal and NIL are NOT good for collegiate athletics. They're a ******* disaster.
That's a good point. I never thought of it that way, but those kids, and maybe even the juniors behind them, came into a situation where there were too many established players. With a finite number of minutes, it's a zero-sum game in that sense...