Transfer Portal shifts all the power back to Top tier Elite teams

[Rufaninga]

Top tier Elite teams.

Before the portal, 1 & done talent went to elite schools Duke, UNC,etc. Those teams had great young talent but it was short lived. Smaller/lesser D1 teams would get good talent, but develop those players for 4 years and have an experienced roster. The experience could compete with elite young talent. BUT now with 30% of kids in the portal, elite teams will get both elite young talent & top tier transfers from lesser schools that spend time developing talent only to lose it when they would start to benefit.

I think the rich are about to get a lot RICHER? the talent gap during tourney will become evident in few years.

thoughts?

 

[RUBigFrank]

May work both ways as an "overstocked" blue blood loaded with too many 4-5 star players not getting on the court - would seek playing time else where.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

This is not a knock on Yeboah.......

Transfer portal could be like a candy store. Looks good and taste good, but......

I think you want to try and build a team with 4 year players. I worry about chemistry when using transfers.

 

[kcg88]

The talent gap is already evident. Blue bloods almost always win the tournament. This year was a bit different with Auburn and Texas Tech crashing the party.

 

[OntheBanks]

Possible solutions:
Grad transfers - immediate eligibility.
Others - Ineligible first 15 games. Lose 1 yr eligibility.

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

Actually it is the opposite....lesser schools can get healthy quicker vs the blue bloods....the blue bloods have more chemistry concerns with 1 or 2 and dones, vs the UVAs, Michigan State's, Texas Tech's, Gonzaga's and Auburn's.

The UNC, Duke, Kentucky and Arizona are a rest stop for kids to the NBA, which is worse than the transfer portal. The transfer portal is going to change dramatically when a good percentage of this kids don't land where they want or the spots they thought were open, suddenly aren't as appealing.

I am fairly confident that more high mid-level Power 5 teams like Tennessee Villanova, LSU, Ohio State, Texas Tech, etc will be closer to Elite 8 or Final Four games because a Duke Kansas etc have too many early departures. It's Zion and RJ Barrett with 3 other high level frosh and they're not a lock to win a National championship unless they get some 3 and 4 year players that can play.

Remember, the transfer portal has landed Yeboah and Jacob Young, 2 of our Top 8 players this year, while only losing 1 in Eugene.

 

[TDIrish27]

Agreed

 

[Rufaninga]

Actually it is the opposite....lesser schools can get healthy quicker vs the blue bloods....the blue bloods have more chemistry concerns with 1 or 2 and dones, vs the UVAs, Michigan State's, Texas Tech's, Gonzaga's and Auburn's.

The UNC, Duke, Kentucky and Arizona are a rest stop for kids to the NBA, which is worse than the transfer portal. The transfer portal is going to change dramatically when a good percentage of this kids don't land where they want or the spots they thought were open, suddenly aren't as appealing.

I am fairly confident that more high mid-level Power 5 teams like Tennessee Villanova, LSU, Ohio State, Texas Tech, etc will be closer to Elite 8 or Final Four games because a Duke Kansas etc have too many early departures. It's Zion and RJ Barrett with 3 other high level frosh and they're not a lock to win a National championship unless they get some 3 and 4 year players that can play.

Remember, the transfer portal has landed Yeboah and Jacob Young, 2 of our Top 8 players this year, while only losing 1 in Eugene.

 

[Rufaninga]

Yeboah went from Stony to B1G, our B1G captain is now moving up the ranks. I don't think it favors the lower P5 schools. Time will tell, but I think elite will restock with top notch players looking for a championship in their last year as a senior as well as elite 1 & dones

 

[Mr Magoo]

Yeboah went from Stony to B1G, our B1G captain is now moving up the ranks. I don't think it favors the lower P5 schools. Time will tell, but I think elite will restock with top notch players looking for a championship in their last year as a senior as well as elite 1 & dones

The problem is that we will get 1 “Yeboah” while Duke, Kentucky, etc will get as many “Yeboahs” as the can. The gap widens.

 

[Caliknight]

This is not a knock on Yeboah.......

Transfer portal could be like a candy store. Looks good and taste good, but......

I think you want to try and build a team with 4 year players. I worry about chemistry when using transfers.

Or in our case, we got rid of a player that didn't want to be here in Omer. and got a proven player that did. #Win

 

[Mr_Twister]

We need to figure out where we should be shopping for talented grad transfers. There is no waiver wire like MLB has. And the NCAA needs to drop the charade about the academic end. The percentage of graduate transfers who really get a graduate degree is embarrassing. And the thought that someone transfers from Stanford to Tennessee is laughable unless the transfer is for country music composition studies or animal husbandry.

 

[RUJMM78]

Regardless of recruiting rules elite schools will continue to have the upper hand because perception matters .Players want to be on winning teams that enhance their viability for the NBA assuming they have the skill set in the first place.The definition of elite schools is broader than the one and done schools which is a very small subset of elite schools.

 

[JavaDunk18]

Transferring to Texas Tech is not “moving up the ranks”..they were 15-18 in a weaker conference. Common opponent was loss to Minnesota at home..RU may be in Dayton next year. A&M would be lucky to get NIT home game..

 

[Rufaninga]

Transferring to Texas Tech is not “moving up the ranks”..they were 15-18 in a weaker conference. Common opponent was loss to Minnesota at home..RU may be in Dayton next year. A&M would be lucky to get NIT home game..

2 out of last 3 years they were in sweet 16.
We are not on par with that.

 

[Russ Wood]

Agree with @NewJerseyHawk

I've seen cases of good players in conferences like the Big South transfer up to The American.

Some people, in the media and not in the media, act like the transfer portal has led to 800+ transfers this year.

That just makes me lol. The number of transfers has been over 500 for at least the past five or six years.

All the transfer portal does is provide a database of information of kids who are considering transferring. Accompanied by school's not being able to block kids who transfer.

I don't like the rule that students can just give someone in the Compliance Department a written request to transfer instead of having to meet with their head coach. I'd like to see them change that.

 

[JavaDunk18]

They were in sweet 16 in 2016 and 2018. (I was at that game in the Honda Center vs Oklahoma in 2016, as i was in Ca that week). But based on last year’s results moving forward, i think Rutgers has the brighter future. But regardless of that, it is not like transferring to a top tier program..

 

[knights1212]

I wonder how many guys who enter the portal do not get picked up by another D-1 school. I assume many realize they might have made a mistake.

 

[Scarlet83]

Top tier Elite teams.

Before the portal, 1 & done talent went to elite schools Duke, UNC,etc. Those teams had great young talent but it was short lived. Smaller/lesser D1 teams would get good talent, but develop those players for 4 years and have an experienced roster. The experience could compete with elite young talent. BUT now with 30% of kids in the portal, elite teams will get both elite young talent & top tier transfers from lesser schools that spend time developing talent only to lose it when they would start to benefit.

I think the rich are about to get a lot RICHER? the talent gap during tourney will become evident in few years.

thoughts?

Hmmmm. The way I look at it, the transfer portal and transfer flexibility (ie players not required to sit out for a season) give the blue blood basketball programs another opportunity to bring in top talent. I believe it gives blue bloods another talent advantage and I don’t see how it DOES NOT give them an advantage.

I would welcome anyone to refute my point of view.

 

[Mr_Twister]

Part of the reason for the transfer flexibility that exists for players now is to deflect interest away from the notion of boosting player compensation beyond the athletic scholarship.

 

[Russ Wood]

I wonder how many guys who enter the portal do not get picked up by another D-1 school. I assume many realize they might have made a mistake.

Plenty of LM guys in the portal transfer to D2 because they weren't good enough for D1. They just took the D1 offer because it was the best one they had.

 

[TDIrish27]

Plenty of LM guys in the portal transfer to D2 because they weren't good enough for D1. They just took the D1 offer because it was the best one they had.

Correct

Can you blame them ?

 

[Russ Wood]

Correct

Can you blame them ?

I don't blame the kids, I blame the adults that gave them bad advice