OT: College Athletics should allow trades
- Thread starter FiliUTEP
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Great idea!!!!
Colleges should also just hold a draft instead. It’s not fair Duke and North Carolina get all the good players. Zion should have been playing at Chicago St or Alabama A&M. Give the little guys a chance.
Colleges should also just hold a draft instead. It’s not fair Duke and North Carolina get all the good players. Zion should have been playing at Chicago St or Alabama A&M. Give the little guys a chance.
Hmm.... so let's say a kid from New York gets traded to Hawai'i.... now he's got to move thousands of miles away and pay for travel and his family will never be able to see him?
Sounds good for a movie plot, not feasible for college athletics.
If he gets traded he wont have to pay for anything. There would have to be a lot of rules. Players move around so much now anyways. I wouldnt be surprised if a trade option gets put into college sports AKA Mens basketball and football. The transfer is basically free agency. Oklahoma gets a new transfer QB almost every year.
I actually thought of a draft but idk how that would work. Once these players start getting paid we might be seeing a draft and trades. If the BCS schools do start their own league and separate themselves from the smaller schools.
"We traded you to Eastern New Mexico."
"But they don't have my major."
"Tough luck, kid. These are the rules now"
"But they don't have my major."
"Tough luck, kid. These are the rules now"
"We're trading you to Harvard"
"I have a 2.1 GPA at UTRGV. You expect me to handle the classload at an Ivy League school?"
"I have a 2.1 GPA at UTRGV. You expect me to handle the classload at an Ivy League school?"
For those that didn't pick up on it, the above is sarcasm.
Oh, and Fili, terrible idea. Colleges don't own their student athletes, they're free to go where they want, as it should be.
I think what should happen is that any kid can transfer one time without any penalty and immediately be eligible... a second transfer (exception of coaching changes) would require a player to sit out a year or possibly two so transfers start having some meaning and consequences
"Good news, you're being transferred to Duke!"
"Coach, I'm a walkon who got an academic scholarship. I can't pay the tuition at one of the most expensive universities in the country thousands of miles from my home here in Idaho."
"Well tough. Your fault for wanting to transfer "
"Coach, I'm a walkon who got an academic scholarship. I can't pay the tuition at one of the most expensive universities in the country thousands of miles from my home here in Idaho."
"Well tough. Your fault for wanting to transfer "
You've been traded to UTEP.
UTEP counseling, "only 6 credits transferred."
UTEP counseling, "only 6 credits transferred."
That would be the reverse. When a UTEP player transfers to a school with real academic credentials
The portal and current scenario is good, not optimal, but good. Sure, the schools are in it to make money at the D1 level; however, you can declare and sign if not picked up or go over seas that pay well also. Your proposal will tip it totally away from the schools and basically neuter coaches.
"I have family issues and would like to transfer to a school closer to my family in Florida"
"Well, we traded you to Alaska-Anchorage. Good luck to your family though."
"Well, we traded you to Alaska-Anchorage. Good luck to your family though."
"I'm sorry, son. You've been traded to East Northwestern New Mexico Polytechnic for a case of green chilies and the queso recipe from La Posta."
Won’t happen. Despite the lack of attention to it, education is the avenue that even provides the means for a kid to play cbb. Even the NCAA, as powerful of an organization as it is, can’t dictate where a kid earns that education from.
Haha education sure. NCAA doesnt care about education. Kyrie Irving went to Duke and he thinks the earth is flat.
What I’m saying is that they can’t set up a system that dictates where a kid gets his education from, where that kid doesn’t have choice in the matter. Not arguing that they give a shit but they still have to operate within their legal limits.
Think once the big schools separate themselves from the smaller schools. Like the SECs and Big Tens. Its going to be ran like a professional league with the option to get a college degree. I could see where they make a rule they can make trades but only within those schools. The college players will need to start its own union just like the NBA players. Its going too get ugly.
I guess nothing would surprise me, especially with the amount of money involved in college athletics (fb and bb), but I still don’t see it happening like that. I’ve been wrong before, though.
You can still be smart and a functioning human being and still have an outrageous thought or two. It’s also hilarious you have a problem with someone thinking the Earth is flat, but come up with some of the stuff you do.
Yep. Plus what happens if a kid chooses a school because they are a top 3 engineering school, but gets traded to a school that has a terrible engineering program. or doesn't even have an engineering program. The NCAA can't tell just tell the kid ,oh well, looks like you have to change majors now. Trades will never happen in the NCAA.
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