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Quick Take: Transfer Portal Madness · Height Differential

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  Portal season and on the men's side, per Jeff Goodman.
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  You said what, 1800 players in the portal?
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  Let's look at the stats here. This was as of about an hour
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  ago. 1850 Division One men's players have hit the portal and
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  that is basically the percentage of scholarship players that have
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  eligibility left. That's 49% of all scholarship
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  players that still have eligibility remaining. 49% of
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  the players are in the portal. On the women's side, the
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  numbers, I don't have the percentage, but on the women's
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  side it's 1000, around 1000. It's it's more normal for you,
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  your players to go in the portal than for them not to.
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  I feel like at this point and. Also, I don't if I was a player,
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  I'd do the same thing. I would see what my value is on
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  the market and you just go back, just go back to this place you
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  came from if you want to. And there are players that
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  withdraw their names from the portal and go back to the
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  school. That doesn't happen very often.
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  It doesn't happen often, but it's an option.
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  I mean like it happened. With Isaac Brown at U of L,
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  yeah, in football. But I feel like that was really
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  rare. I mean, didn't O way do it for
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  Kentucky last year? He tested the draft waters and
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  but. Testing for draft waters and
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  coming back I think is different.
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  I mean it's. Not the same thing.
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  Maybe in the portal, not in the portal, I don't know.
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  But if you're a kid and you're looking for, I mean it, it's all
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  about the money now. So it's you might as well get in
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  the open market, have your agent feel it out, see what you're
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  worth. And if you don't like what
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  you're hearing then then just go back to the school you came
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  from. Or have some damn loyalty to
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  your program and be proud of your school.
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  That you know back if you want to.
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  Like it ain't always about chasing the damn dollar.
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  The grass ain't always greener. Like can we have some loyalty in
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  college hoops? What's the Jeff Walsh quote?
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  He always says yeah, sometimes you think the grass is just
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  with. Shit.
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  Yeah, with bullshit. And he's right.
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  He's 100% right. It's one of my favorite quotes
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  of his. I get it, I'm old school and
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  it's not going to change until the rules change.
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  No, it sucks for the fans, it sucks for the schools, it sucks
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  for the fans, but kids are doing what they got to do.
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  It's not changing. It's going to get worse,
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  probably. Nebraska dude's a starter Burke,
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  but you to gel Started all every game this year.
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  Averaged 6 1/2 points, 55.6 rebounds was it's his second
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  year there. Where did he start?
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  Started at UCLA his first year. So he's a junior.
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  After their great season, they win their first ever NCAA
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  tournament game. They get to their Sweet 16.
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  Dudes getting a tattoo. They can commemorate the season
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  27 and 8. Yeah, the next day, Deuces, I'm
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  going to the portal. Well, I mean, is that because he
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  wanted to go to the portal or did he have a or, or did he have
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  a conversation with Fred Hoiberg?
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  And Hoiberg was like, hey, we're we're looking at bringing in a
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  guy at your position that maybe can give us more than what you
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  gave us. And look, and I, I think that's
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  a fairpoint. It's not always on the player
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  side. I I think that is an absolute
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  fairpoint. Give me his stats again.
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  What'd you say? He averaged 6:00 and 5:00.
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  Exactly. As a starter, maybe you're
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  looking for a little more than that.
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  So Hoyburg's maybe like we're going to bring in a guy that
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  might help us a little more than six points and five rebounds.
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  And then he's might be like, all right, coach, I respect that.
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  I'm going to go look for an opportunity where I can play
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  start again. So maybe that's, I mean, we
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  don't know the story that to me that's very plausible.
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  I don't know the story and maybe that is what happened, but it's
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  still, it's still weird. You get a tattoo commemorating
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  your season and then a day later you're like, thanks, but I'm
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  going to be playing for somebody else next year.
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  Well, can I ruse news in the portal for Louisville?
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  He's got that leg tattoo that's spells out CARDS and it has like
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  all the different things for each letter of the program
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  standards and all that. Well, he's almost going to go
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  get that covered up now. Well, you go play for for
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  another. Don't get your girlfriend's name
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  tatted on you, because when you break up, what are you going to
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  do? What?
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  Are you going to turn that cards in and out to you'll?
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  Find another with the same names.
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  What you got to do? Yeah, that's easier said than
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  done. So at limits, can I roost
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  options next year? Ball statement.
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  He can go to ball well, he's got to take the S off if he goes to
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  Stanford. So that's a lot easier to do
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  than taking the whole tattoo off.
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  Or you could try to go to the draft to the Arizona Cardinals
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  or the Saint Louis Cardinals. Other than that, I don't know
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  what he's going to do next year. Yeah, no, it's, it's crazy.
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  And you had said they're looking to do something with to give you
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  5 years of eligibility if if you're.
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  Yeah, The NCAA came out today. I saw this today.
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  They're proposing an eligibility rule change that I guess will be
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  voted on in the near future that will take place and will go into
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  effect in the fall of 26. So starting this fall, basically
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  5 years of eligibility in five years.
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  So five years from your 19th birthday or the year that you
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  graduate high school, you have five years of eligibility.
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  There are no more red shirts, no medical red shirts, no waivers,
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  no nothing. You've got five years to figure
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  this out and you can play all five years.
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  If you get hurt, you still have four more years.
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  So kind of trying to delimit more get to get this thing
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  standardized and you know, it eliminates bringing back 26 year
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  old G League players that have been out of college for five
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  years and which is what we. Need a rule to eliminate that is
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  insane. I mean this, this does
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  officially eliminate that that portion of that I don't know,
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  they're just trying to make it more standardized and you're not
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  denying some guys here and approving some guys here and
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  it's just all it's pretty clear cut.
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  I'm I'm in favor of it. Well, there's nothing to not be
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  in favor. I don't know what it
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  accomplishes. You're just giving guys an extra
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  year. So usually you got four years or
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  you play 4 years. You got to move on.
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  Now you can play a total of you can play all five years.
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  So seniors can now come back. And that's really, it kind of
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  hurts the freshman, like the incoming freshman, like they're
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  going to limit opportunities of high school kids with this one.
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  It's it's like coaches shouldn't be redshirting players for the
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  last couple of years knowing that they can go wherever they
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  want because I don't know the percentage, but I guarantee you
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  the percentage of redshirted players and them leaving the
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  program is damn high. And to me, that's all this kind
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  of does. It says there's no point in
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  redshirting because you ain't going to keep people from
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  getting hurt. Like there's nothing you can do
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  about that. I would like to see some kind of
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  incentive to where you're rewarded for being somewhere for
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  four years. If you're at the same school for
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  four years, then you get a fifth year to give somebody an
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  incentive to say somewhere I I would like to see.
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  What if your coach leaves? What if?
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  There's, there's going to be stuff like that that allows you
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  to. Leave, see then you're just
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  going back into the whole I need to get a waiver, I need to get
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  this for for this to happen. But that, but at least then
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  you've got rules. At least with waivers, you've
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  got some rules. We're seeing too many kids that
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  are playing five years at 5 different schools.
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  I don't know what good it does anybody.
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  What good does that do anybody? What does it hurt?
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  That student athlete, are they really even a student athlete?
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  No, we know this man like we like, like, let's just stop
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  pretending like. Fans have loyalty to them.
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  Let's stop like pretending like this is the old days where
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  student athletes were were were here for school.
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  I hear who's the the Ohio State quarterback that said I'm not
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  here to play school. These kids aren't here to play
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  school. They're here to play ball.
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  They're here to get paid and they're here to get, if you get
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  a degree, that's a bonus. A lot of kids don't care about
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  that because they're just trying to go play professionally,
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  whether that's in the NFL, the NBA or overseas somewhere and
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  get a contract in Turkey or Russia to play basketball.
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  Like they're, they're here to play ball and get that, get that
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  pro contract. Yeah.
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  I mean, I just, if you could have A1 transfer rule and other
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  than that you got to sit out and then you keep this 5:00 and
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  5:00, then that gives you incentive not to transfer
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  because if you do transfer a second time, then you have to
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  sit out of gear. I think that's a decent, that
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  would be a decent addition to these rules to try to limit a
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  little bit. Like I, I understand the other
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  side of the argument. Coaches can leave whenever they
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  want, no matter what their contract is.
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  And that's true, but we're not seeing coaches coach five places
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  in five years. And just to bring some
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  consistency to it. I would try I'm I'm on your side
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  on this. I would, I would.
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  And I know that they're not. It's not all about school, but
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  it's still a part of it. You could at least pretend that
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  it matters. And when it's five and five
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  doesn't benefit the student athlete, doesn't benefit the fan
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  base, The only way you're remembered is if you go and do
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  something great that fifth year or your final year, because the
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  other four places you left, no matter how good you are, hate
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  you and will hate you forever for the most part.
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  And so the only chance you have to be remembered at a school is
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  having a fifth year or a senior year at your new program where
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  you are great individually and your great, your team has great
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  success. And I don't know the system as
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  they argued for good 10 minutes on game day.
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  I don't believe it's sustainable.
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  It's too expensive. Like in the in the in the pro
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  leagues, you spend money on players and you get revenue
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  back. Yes, these donors aren't getting
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  that revenue back that are paying for the most of these
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  players. Well, a lot of these
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  universities are going and they're in debt already, just
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  trying to going to keep up to get it in competitive roster.
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  Yeah. And you're going to start seeing
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  the smaller sports disappear because more money's going to
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  have to go to football and about and primarily men's basketball,
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  but women's basketball as well. And then you're going to start
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  seeing other sports disappear. But I mean, I will say for the
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  most part, the TV ratings are as good as they've ever been.
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  The product is is great. But the problem is, and you
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  know, this is what's different from the pro leagues is the pro
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  leagues you're under one TV contract, the revenue splits
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  equal amongst all 32 teams league teams.
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  Same with baseball or ball or whatever.
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  You know, when you've got the SEC in the big 10 making double
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  what the Big 12 in the ACC are making in Rev in in media rights
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  revenue like then we start having an issue and the AC CS
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  locked into their media rights till 2036 that they can't get
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  out of. So they can't even renegotiate
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  until then. So like the gap, the gaps?
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  Too big and that's why we just saw the Big 10 sweep men's
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  basketball, woman's basketball and football for the first time
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  it's been done since 07:00 when the.
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  SEC in the SEC and the Big 10 are going to fight this, but I
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  would like to see a yeah, Division One, especially maybe
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  the the Power 4, Power Five teams, all under 1 meteorites
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  deal. Like they make a deal with ESPN
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  and NBC and CBN, just like the NFL does with Fox and CBS and
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  ESPN and Amazon and YouTube and whoever else.
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  They're all under the same meteorites deal.
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  Put these conferences under the same meteorites deal.
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  Let's distribute this evenly and let's get this back to at least
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  a little bit of, you know, where some some of these teams have a
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  chance and we're not in monstrous debt.
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  And you're not even talking about the teams that aren't in
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  Power 4, like you talk about separating them even more.
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  It's just, I still love watching it, but there's a lot of issues
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  with it. It'll be interesting to see
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  where it goes. I think there has to be some
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  changes. What those changes will be your
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  your idea is not a terrible idea, but just the Big 10 and
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  the SEC are never going to be like OK.
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  That's what you're going to have to have some kind, I mean, it's
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  not like Congress needs to get involved in sports, but like
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  you're going to have to have some kind of Supreme Court
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  rulings or congressional, you know, something laws or whatever
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  that come down to, to try to force these things through
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  because these conferences aren't going to agree on anything.
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  They're all looking out. There's just no rules to begin
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  with. This is the result.
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  Look, there's a lot of things. The result ain't bad.
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  There's I mean the products still good.
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  It's just you're probably going to have a different players
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  aren't your team every year. Well, Michigan did it and they
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  won a championship. So if you're a fan of your team,
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  you know, and your guys are transferring out, you might get
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  somebody better, you might end up winning a championship and
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  guess what you're going to be. Ecstatic you are, but if you
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  also had Yaxel there for four years, it just add something I
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  mean. Just fact.
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  One year's better than none, but.
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  Especially if you bring on the chip.