Sweet 16 starting 5's by the team they played for as Freshmen

fricking ridiculous

That’s such a fricking joke when you look at it

Anyone trying to claim “school pride” with basketball is selling themselves a lie

Baseball is pretty much there too and football ain’t that far behind

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NIL and open transfer portal makes it really hard to follow cbb, imo.

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To a certain extent sure, but many of these transfers have been on their teams multiple years. The only major rotation player that hasn't been at Auburn at least two years (or are true freshman) is Miles Kelly.

Bama is mostly the same, as is Florida.

Guys being overlooked and then being able to move up and play at a P5 school for 2-3 years is honestly the way NIL and the transfer portal should work for the players benefit.

The issue is more the unlimited transfer stuff, and that needs to be shut down. Players should only have one free transfer, unless there is a coaching change or probation involved.

And if that was the case we'd probably have more players sticking around for 3-4 years at their original program. As it is coaches are going the transfer route because otherwise they are just building up players for someone else to poach (see for example Tre Donaldson going from Auburn to Michigan for just one of a bazillion examples).

Tulane in da house!!

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Eh context matters

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Not if you have a specific narrative in mind.

LSU basketball is so shitty even their transfers don’t make it on good teams.

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he issue is more the unlimited transfer stuff, and that needs to be shut down. Players should only have one free transfer, unless there is a coaching change or probation involved.

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You and others can continue to say this over and over again, but it's not going to happen unless there is, eventually some sort of CBA where the players and schools/conferences agree to a rule. This issue has been litigated and the NCAA loses. Generally speaking, the transfer restrictions are considered an unlawful restraint on trade.

The abolishing of transfer "penalties" (i.e. sitting out a year) was coming prior to 2020, but at a slower pace. The NCAA, like so many other business, entities, people, in the great overreaction of 2020, unnecessarily opened up the box and allowed "free" transfers. Once that happened there was no going back. In fact, we are going the other way where college players (ex Diego Pavia) are arguing they should essentially be allowed to be "professional" college players in the sense there should be no eligibility tern limit. The argument being as long as a school will enroll a person as a student they should be allowed to play sports for the school.

Would have been hilarious if the Purdue one was not Purdue