Mid Majors -Hurt by Grad Transfer Exodus

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SLYFOXX1968

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I just read a AP article by John Kekis. He uses tha SUNY Albany Team of a year ago as a example.Will Brown Albany Coach and highly regarded was quoted as saying, “I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire Career.” Brown lost 2 Forwards to graduation and 2 others who transferred . Joe Cremo and David Nichols were the team’s Top 2 Scorers . Cremo went to Villanova and became the Cats first Grad transfer. He’s playing 20 minutes a game . Nichols went to Florida State and is part of the Seminoles regular rotation. Brown added,,” every kid growing up wants to play at NC, Duke,Kansas, Villanova, etc .” “ I was shocked when these 2 kids left but. wanted them to be happy and chase their dreams .” As a result , this Year’s Albany team is 5-14 with starting 4 freshman , including 3 Redshirts from Australia . Brown isn’t on anyone’s Radar as a Coaching Candidate as a result . Jim Boeheim says, “it’s a crushing thing for a smaller school.” Boeheim’s current Orange Team has 2 Grad Transfers , Andrew White from Nebraska and John Gillion from Colorado State . “Getting grad transfers is something everybody is now doing.” And , according to NCAA reports , 40 percent of all HS players who enter Dividion 1 Programs as freshman , depart their initial school by the end of their Sophomore year . Grad Transfers are more likely to go to better programs and often leave the lesser programs in the lurch . Mid Majors don’t get the one and done talent and for these schools playing together for 4 years and knowing their team’s system is the key to success . Back to Coach Brown who’s Albany Team is 0-4 in the America East Conference , the only team without a Win . Brown Said, “ there are probably 2 teams that start 4 freshman this year , Albany and Duke .” When Cremo and Nichols transferred last Spring, you can’t prepare for that in the regular Recruiting cycle .” You just can’t replace 2 All Conference players in late March or April. “Maybe a Duke or Kansas can , but at our level you just can’t .” It would seem , that the entire Recruiting scene , at the high school level and even , the existing Program’s level that a drastic departure from traditional recruiting has pretty much vanished, except the Blue Bloods. Maybe those of us on Redmen.com can accept this development
, without making the continual echo of how Mullin and team have failed in the Recruiting game because we aren’t getting the blue chip HS kid . As this article shows , the field has changed . And , actually Mullin and Staff appear to be acclimating to that . Given our incoming transfers . It’s a topic worthy of further discussion from our posters .
 
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There have been a few instances where schools relying on almost all transfers maintain successful programs and that number is only going to increase with the number of transfers rising and the immediate eligibility grad transfer rule.
As pointed out in the Albany situation this can leave programs who lose the players in bad shape.Since nothing will be done to discourage transferring the NCAA should at least put a time frame limiting the date a player can transfer which may allow the school losing a transfer to have time to recruit a replacement.
This could be a high school recruit or perhaps a transfer from another program which would just keep the transfer carousel expanding.
 
SLYFOX so where are our grad transfer bigs let alone any grad transfers the last 3 years since the first year of Johnson and Mvoika not to mention we have lacked depth in those years?
 
With grad transfers, generally the rich get richer. I hate the rule. Any high performing graduate with eligibility remaining will consider transferring to a school with a higher profile or better playing opportunity. I don't blame the players one bit, but there needs to be some modification of the rules, perhaps requiring one year to sit out and any other transfer.
 
[quote="bamafan" post=317097]SLYFOX so where are our grad transfer bigs let alone any grad transfers the last 3 years since the first year of Johnson and Mvoika not to mention we have lacked depth in those years?[/quote]. Good Question, Crimson Tide. It seems the Grad Transfers are landing at Blue Blood Schools first or, at least trying to ... of course , Playing Time for Grad Transfers is a critical issue since they only play for 1 year . Why transfer to a School that can’t guarantee X number of minutes , etc . The Grad would simply move on to another School that would answer that question . These kids don’t transfer to sit on the Bench and be practice players . As for St John’s not having a grad transfer since Mullin’s first year, my opinion is the Staff might not have Playing time to guarantee . Back to last year . Heron and Figgy transfered in late and Dixon and Keita were already here . Was there really any PT available last summer ? I don’t think so . Or , Scholarship room ?
 
[quote="SLYFOXX1968" post=317124][quote="bamafan" post=317097]SLYFOX so where are our grad transfer bigs let alone any grad transfers the last 3 years since the first year of Johnson and Mvoika not to mention we have lacked depth in those years?[/quote]. Good Question, Crimson Tide. It seems the Grad Transfers are landing at Blue Blood Schools first or, at least trying to ... of course , Playing Time for Grad Transfers is a critical issue since they only play for 1 year . Why transfer to a School that can’t guarantee X number of minutes , etc . The Grad would simply move on to another School that would answer that question . These kids don’t transfer to sit on the Bench and be practice players . As for St John’s not having a grad transfer since Mullin’s first year, my opinion is the Staff might not have Playing time to guarantee . Back to last year . Heron and Figgy transfered in late and Dixon and Keita were already here . Was there really any PT available last summer ? I don’t think so . Or , Scholarship room ?[/quote] Tariq Owens left us to got to TT as a grad transfer and he is getting less minutes. Cremo getting 20 minutes at Nova. 0 % chance a grad big guy would look at our school and not think he would get big minutes
 
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