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Subject: P Men’s Basketball

Author:
Bengal

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Date Posted: 17:32:16 04/21/24 Sun
In reply to: M3 's message, "Why Enter The Portal?" on 06:48:03 04/15/24 Mon

Whatever the answers are to the question, P men’s basketball now has 4 players in the portal. Two are freshmen and one is a 6’10 soph, all
of whom had very few minutes, and one is soph who is a definite contributor off the bench ( and the son of 2 P basketball alums, one of whom coached there).

While it is not clear if they all are going to wind
up elsewhere, it is a striking number. I know that bigger non-senior contributors have transferred out of other Ivy programs.

To me, it is a tumultuous situation for Ivy athletics. I don’t think this four year unrestricted free agency for college athletes is good for college sports. The constant churn in rosters, the need to recruit athletes even after they join your team.

As far as little used underclassmen go, at each of our schools we have seen any number of players become contributors in their upper class seasons. Some obviously don’t want to wait and I suppose some may feel they will always just ride the bench and prefer a better chance to play a sport they love.

My tentative suggestion is to reinstate the once longstanding requirement of sitting out a year if you transfer.

I don’t know whether that would pass legal muster but I think it would slow down some of the transfer traffic. And no, I don’t think in exchange for schools who cut a break in admissions standards to admit an athlete or pay their way with an athletic scholarship or both that this would be unfair to the athlete.

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Ghost
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Date Posted: 18:34:36 04/21/24 Sun

All fair points. When we had the one year sitting out rule, the NCAA was forced to contend with numerous 'exception' cases (ill parent, economic considerations, homesickness) and couldn't say no. Plus some coaches didn't want to grant the 'release' for student-athletes. So where the schools used to have some leverage, now it's all towards the student-athletes. And, without any regulations on transferring, we have free agency or where can I play more/make more on NIL $.