SIAP: TU's Jordan Clarkson Transferring

Would be nice to get him to go to TCU. Strengthen the conference any way we can
 
lk2183 said:
Just saw this tweet from Eric Bailey at the Tulsa World after posting the previous link.

‏@EricBaileyTW

The Tulsa World has learned Clarkson has been given permission to talk to Colorado, TCU and Vanderbilt. Original list included 8-9 schools.
https://twitter.com/#!/EricBaileyTW/status/192441173741277184
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Hope he wasn't restricted by the school on where he could look to transfer much like Bo Ryan is doing right now at Wisconsin. Pathetic practice by coaches and brings into question if they really do have "their kids" best interest at heart.
 
campbest said:
Hope he wasn't restricted by the school on where he could look to transfer much like Bo Ryan is doing right now at Wisconsin. Pathetic practice by coaches and brings into question if they really do have "their kids" best interest at heart.
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What Bo Ryan is doing is overkill, but I don't have a problem with keeping them out of the conference, and perhaps even out of the state. But banning him from the entire ACC and Iowa State? I don't get that. Everybody likes to get all worked up when a coach runs a kid off, but they don't think there should be any consequences to kids that want to leave the program. Especially this late in the process. That really leaves Wisconsin in a bind.
 
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Definitely overkill...I think the issue that you hear about more and more are guys "keeping in touch" with kids after that kid goes to another school. That is a problem.
 
Im a little of the other side. TOO many kids are transfering for playing time issues, homesick, etc... what happen to a kid keeping his word. It goes both ways

The kid Bo Ryan is keeping from transfering to 25 schools, knew what kind of style of play and what kind of guy Bo was.

This is a generation of quitters.
 
If a kid wants to transfer schools, he should be allowed to go wherever he wants. The coaches and ADs make a ton of money, if you can't keep kids in your program, figure out what the problem is and solve it.
 
brimmbball said:
Im a little of the other side. TOO many kids are transfering for playing time issues, homesick, etc... what happen to a kid keeping his word. It goes both ways

The kid Bo Ryan is keeping from transfering to 25 schools, knew what kind of style of play and what kind of guy Bo was.

This is a generation of quitters.
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Non-athletes transfer all the time for a variety of issues, etc. No one is stopping them from moving on.

Make scholarships a multi-year agreement if it's such a big problem. As long as the kid fulfills his academic requirement at his current institution during the time he was on campus, he should be free to go.
 
campbest said:
If a kid wants to transfer schools, he should be allowed to go wherever he wants. The coaches and ADs make a ton of money, if you can't keep kids in your program, figure out what the problem is and solve it.
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The problem a lot, not all, of the time is spoiled kids who have been told their whole life that they are special and the best ever suddenly get to college and coaches wont do that and they have to earn pt behind players that have started and produced for one to three years and they want to go where they can be spoiled like they were in middle school and high school. Those kids should have to honor their commitments.
 
Max Power said:
The problem a lot, not all, of the time is spoiled kids who have been told their whole life that they are special and the best ever suddenly get to college and coaches wont do that and they have to earn pt behind players that have started and produced for one to three years and they want to go where they can be spoiled like they were in middle school and high school. Those kids should have to honor their commitments.
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So you want to keep a spoiled, self-entitled kid in your program?

Secondly, a lot of you are nieve on how the recruiting process works when it comes to coaches telling players how they will be used, what they can offer in the form of PT, etc. Furthermore, a lot of these "promises" are made by assistants who a.) don't have the final say and b.) will probably not last the full tenure of a player's career due to their propensity to job hopping.
 
campbest said:
Non-athletes transfer all the time for a variety of issues, etc. No one is stopping them from moving on.

Make scholarships a multi-year agreement if it's such a big problem. As long as the kid fulfills his academic requirement at his current institution during the time he was on campus, he should be free to go.
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I tend to agree with this: If scholarships are only year-to-year obligations for the schools, then if a kid is in good academic standing he should be allowed to leave without having to sit out a year. If he leaves in bad academic standing, then sit out for a year. If kid wants to leave for a school in same conference, then sit out two years or whatever the conference members agree to.
 
campbest said:
Non-athletes transfer all the time for a variety of issues, etc. No one is stopping them from moving on.

Make scholarships a multi-year agreement if it's such a big problem. As long as the kid fulfills his academic requirement at his current institution during the time he was on campus, he should be free to go.
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I dont care about non athletes.
 
Question: If I got a full academic scholarship from OU as a freshman, but then get offered a full academic scholarship from Harvard and transferred, would I be required to sit out a year? Probably not, but would I have to pay OU back any money?
 
I don't even think they should have to sit out a year. If they want to go play for a new school, why should that not be allowed? They arent paid athletes, and they sign ONE YEAR scholarship papers.

I agree that if you can't stop players from transferring, you've done something wrong.
 
thebigabd said:
I don't even think they should have to sit out a year. If they want to go play for a new school, why should that not be allowed? They arent paid athletes, and they sign ONE YEAR scholarship papers.

I agree that if you can't stop players from transferring, you've done something wrong.
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There would be thousands of transfers if they didnt have to sit a year. Im about commitments, if you give someone your word, you should stay. Coaches and players..
I know things come up, deaths, coaching changes etc...
 
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