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Subject: Re: "3 Ex-Ivy League 'Nerds' Lead Trojans to the Top" Author: An Observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:23:51 03/14/24 Thu In reply to: Bob S 's message, "Re: "3 Ex-Ivy League 'Nerds' Lead Trojans to the Top"" on 12:20:39 03/14/24 Thu Bob, your question is right on point. Unfortunately, I think the answer is that *ALL* mid-major conferences are going to become farm team systems for the high majors. Within the high majors, the middle-of-the-road teams will feed the top of the food chain. Who is surprised by this effect of introducing the transfer portal and NILs at the same time? There are those who still don't understand the basic principles of capitalism or labor economics. Incredibly, many of those are faculty members on our campuses. But this is all working out as one could have reasonably foreseen. It's like the ILT. Like it or not, it's had exactly the effect we thought it would. The good news is that the effect should be much less on the women's side, and that if any conference can count on keeping a disproportionate share of its top male players, it's us. That's the strength of our brand names and thank goodness for that most fundamental of our recruiting draws. Think of the atmosphere at other mid-majors. If you're a coach who has found an undiscovered gem in recruiting or developed one on campus, you know that, the better you do in helping him flourish, the more likely you are to lose him by senior year. I can't get too sad about that because the real tragedy is the effect this will have on high school sports and American high schools in general. Speaking of things which are not hard to forecast, I predict no improvement in the educational quality of the bottom quintile of American public high schools over the next several decades, with rippling effects up and down the food chain. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]