Kolek planning to go pro
Sources say it was the same transgender people who terrorized little girls in bathrooms that did the dog-marrying.
Bull----With extremely rare exceptions - Steph Curry, Marcus Camby - a single kid isn't going to drive a small program to major success. Northern Illinois and Stetson losing their best player to a transfer will become ... Northern Illinois and Stetson. Nothing changes. The slippery slope chicken little stuff here is ridiculous. This changes the college basketball landscape little, if at all.But it does give the players power, leverage and freedom of movement. And that's what really has some people scared.
“I’m being completely honest and serious. If the media doesn’t take hold of this right now, you can shut mid-major basketball and low-major basketball down. It’s over. That’s a strong quote, I stand by it, and I mean it. The coaches can’t do anything about this. We are getting ready to be a farm club system…If you think these guys aren’t going to be contacted, you’re living in a world that has faeries. And I’m telling you right now Tinkerbelle ain’t in college basketball. If the media doesn’t join hands, specifically mid-major and low-major schools, we are going to end up with two divisions and you can just shut this down.”SIU Coach Barry Hinson
if she is admitted, yes
So college bureaucrats decide who gets a "free" education and where they get that education. Sounds like a lot of law suits down the pike as to why my kid didn't make the cut.
Yep. Barry might be right here. And the successful coaches will be the ones not whining about the media not "joining hands" (???), but the ones who find a way to thrive in that envrionment.
You are missing the point, there won’t be any more successful coaches at those levels, not like today, because as they develop kids they will leave. They are penalized for doing their job well.
Ahhh politics by MU82 again....aren’t we all shocked by this rare occurrence.
I’m not talking about major success, I’m talking regular success which you are now yanking out of those schools. They took a chance on a kid with resources, investment, etc, help develop the kid and now he gets to walk away. I’m all for it if he has to pay back the value of the scholarship.
I have always believed that the rule that makes no sense is not the sit out rule, but the 5 to play 4 rule. Eliminate the 5 to play 4 rule and require every transfer to sit out a year. This way nobody loses any eligibility even if they want to transfer every year. The sit out year prevents chaos every off season and also makes the kids transferring weigh the pros and cons of their decision which is a good life lesson. But they shouldn't be penalized an entire year of eligibility if they change their mind on more than one occasion. Even if someone transfers after every year they play, it will only take 7 years to exhaust their eligibility. What's the big difference between 5 and 7. Anyone that transfers 3 times and is still hanging around college at 25-26 probably isn't making that big of an impact anyway.I believe this would be fair to the student athlete without turning every off season into a free for all.
Why should a kid have a penalty of sitting out a year in case they made the wrong decision at the age of 17? Why should a coach be able to bail a year after recruiting the player while the player has to determine if sitting out a year is worth improving their situation?
Oh, please.Duke and Kentucky aren't going to be mining the likes of Southern Illinois for their players. #Fakenews
Duke did mine Liberty for Seth Curry and Rice for Sean Obi. Kentucky currently has a transfer from Bucknell.
Look, we all know that Barry Hinson is setting up a strawman for when Southern Illinois runs him out of town for doing nothing notable during his tenure there. This is all to get some unsuspecting MVC school to sign him up for another five or six years of his mediocrity. Hello Evansville???
Hinson is already gone. He resigned last March at SIU. He's currently at Oklahoma St in a special assistant role to Mike Boynton, Jr.
It's not a penalty. It is in place to help kids get acclimated to their new school. #StudentsFirst
Unless they play a bunch of other sports that aren't basketball or football.