Transfer portal policy fix

Do most portal athletes not find a new home?

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Im personally all for a kid transfering if he or she wants, but if the rule was amended that if you transfer before your RS JR or SR year you had to sit a year I think it would cut down on all this indiscriminate transferring.

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You mean the way it used to be?

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You mean the way it used to be?

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Not quite, the old way was you had to sit a year no matter what and a coach could dictate who you could or couldn't transfer too.

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cut down on all this indiscriminate transferring.

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Less freedom and more regulation?

College baseball used to have very loose transfer rules. Some guys were basically free agents every season. I think there were more spots for transferring players because so many left early for the draft.
I think the only smart answer is to recruit players that aren’t afraid to compete and recruit freshman transfers who will have to sit out a season if they transfer again,

Not a transfer scholar, so is the losing Uni required to maintain the scholarship opportunity for an athlete sitting in the portal awaiting another offer if he's still at school and attending class. What if the program gives him 30 days to find another lilly pad and then pull the scholarship for use elsewhere?

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Not quite, the old way was you had to sit a year no matter what and a coach could dictate who you could or couldn't transfer too.

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They took that away from the coaches a few years ago because they abused it.

True, but if that was the case you would think he would have enrolled somewhere else by now. That's the problem with having 1100 other scholarship guys in the portal.

Was manny trying to transfer before the new rules? I think it was, couldn’t he just have came back to lsu? He may have been a grad transfer

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You can argue this point all you want, but you should understand that imposing “strict parameters” is the same thing as “taking away their freedom”.

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You’re not taking away their “freedom”.
They have all the freedom in the world when they commit to a school. So much freedom the school commits to pay for everything under the sun so they can get an education and prepare for their careers.
If that student athlete decides he/she wants to use their “freedoms” retract on their commitment, they must follow
the rules of sitting out one season of their sport, not their education (which is what a university is providing to begin with). School is not a career, nor a professional job.

The thing we use to teach kids was to finish what you started. If you don’t want to honor a commitment, you can leave, but sitting out a season is the penalty.
There are penalties in life, this is a teaching moment.