danjsport wrote:

Different idea—if a player wants to transfer, let them. Don’t hinder where they can go, or why. Don’t make them sit out. Let them go. If they leave because of money, so be it. That’s capitalism. Surely we have not made coaches sit a year between jobs for more money or prestige. If they leave because their parents are ill, so be it. If they leave just because they feel like it, so be it. Wanna stop it? Sign them to contracts that actually monetarily compensate them for their time and efforts. As long as each school is providing the same “compensation,” why shouldn’t the player get to choose where they go?

Despite the fact that this would ruin collegiate sports, is counter to the notion of student-athlete and we all know that each school is not able to provide the same "compensation", I'll play. Under your scenario since it's unlimited freedom and compensation for players like the pros, would coaches be allowed to cut players who don't perform like the pros? And if so can they do this midseason or at any point?

Seems to me if you want this to be like the pros then let's make it like the pros. 

Gwmayhem wrote:

Credit Rob Dauster with this proposed solution.

First transfer....everyone gets one without sitting out a year

Graduated college with eligibility left?  gets to transfer a second time without sitting out a year

Head coach got fired?  gets to transfer a second time without sitting out a year

All other second transfers?  must sit out a year.

The NCAA should get out of the waiver business once and for all.
 

I believe this is nothing new. This is essentially where the NABC and D1 coaches are at. No discretion ... objective facts only. Take the NCAA out of the equation.

I might go one step farther and so would some of the LM and MM coaches I know. I might make the first transfer sit a year. This would largely prevent NIL poaching and make the discretionary first year transfer a thoughtful one. This was the old rule years ago. This would enable a student-athlete to get the automatic grad transfer year on the back-end provided they made proper progress towards graduation. The lone exception to this would be if the coach departs.

The theory would be to choose a school wisely because you never know how basketball is going to work. In the case of the coach leaving that would not be the player's fault. If we are in the education business then we need to stop emulating pro sports. If you want to go pro, go pro. Otherwise, become a student-athlete with emphasis on the student not athlete.
 

Gwmayhem, if these transfers had strong track records of college performance they wouldn't be at GW and they would've commanded way more NIL money than GW could afford to pay. CC is betting much like Max that they have higher ceilings than their college track records would suggest. But these analysts don't know what CC knows nor can they be expected to. 

That said, until the bright lights come on do we really know? GW and the college basketball world is littered with kids who someone thought were this or that and did not come close. I say let these kids develop and then see what we have. I put no more credence in someone who says we are first versus someone who says we are last. A ton of unknowns at this point. Undoubtedly some will be better than expected and some worse. That's just the way this works.

Good news coming this afternoon. Florida, I've seen him play some but not a ton. I like him. Can score the ball and decent defender. Good size for a Guard. Only question is competition he faced in HS but I think he answered that in AAU.

I love it when idiots talk... 

"relying on freshmen depth" - last year we had no depth ... I mean literally no depth. So freshmen depth can only be good right?
"they went 4-0 in OT games" - why do they think we were in OT games ... lack of depth. Also, how many games did we run out of gas and lose last year because we lacked depth?
'who will replace Ricky's rebounding?" apparently they looked and saw Lindo was leading rebounder and he's gone. What they don't realize it's not just Ricky's rebounding that was lost - Adams rebounded well for a guard and Dean gave us about 6 a game. That's 10 between them or more than Ricky provided. Rebounding will be key but not just because Ricky is gone.
"think defense will be just s bad or worse than last year" - with an almost entirely new roster how would you know?

The problem with basketball is that anyone can run a podcast and not know shit. I'll differ with FQ a bit, I don't think they are sleeping on us. They just don't know anything.