Golf: Kermit provided the blueprint for Brennan Webb
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I agree. It becomes terribly unfair not only to the university and fans, but to the incoming coaches. #TrueBlue my ass.
The worst thing here is there is absolutely no one looking out for the interests of the university.
I get that certain people want to say we’re taking the highroad and doing the right thing when it comes to coaches leaving. But on the other hand, those people are letting our teams be completely decimated. It’s a serious problem and speaks volumes about the lack of foresight by our athletic leadership.
Maybe, maybe not. It shouldn't be a surprise that kids will want to attend big-name schools, but in terms of programs like our golf and men's basketball, we are just as - if not more - competitive than the programs we are "losing" our coaches to. So it's doubly painful to see the players leave. Apparently our AD isn't enough to make them stay - which is just how it is.
I just don't remember any other G5 program getting raped like this by outgoing coaches and the fact that it has happened now twice within months of each other to MT, it makes me question if MT has a big enough supply of vaseline. Maybe the athletic department needs to receive a case of KY Jelly for future applications....
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The NCAA just changed the rules. We can’t restrict where a student transfers. And we can’t make current players sit out a year if they transfer in a non-revenue sport like golf.
I guess we could have forced the in coming people to play a year for us against their will prior to transferring out. However, not releasing a player from a NLI is very rare. 93% of the NLI release requests were granted in 2016-2017.
I guess we could have forced the in coming people to play a year for us against their will prior to transferring out. However, not releasing a player from a NLI is very rare. 93% of the NLI release requests were granted in 2016-2017.
While this may be true, I think these coaches are openly recruiting them...feels wrong.
We can restrict it if they want the release. If they don't want to agree to future opponent restrictions, then they can enjoy sitting for a year.
The NCAA changed the rules this summer. Current students no longer have to ask for a release and the schools can’t restrict who you transfer to. And in golf, there is no 1 year transfer sit and wait.
The single caveat to this - conferences have the power to restrict transfers within conference, but i don’t the CUSA has that in place.
Incoming students that sign a NLI are still bound for a year unless given a release. But like I mentioned, releases are given 93% of the time for in coming players.
I will also say I don’t know when the rule goes into effect yet, but the rule changed.
So we could have still restricted Fagan, Buffen, and Curry if incoming NLI's are bound for a year.
It doesn’t happen on most watches. 93% of all requests for release are given full, unrestricted release. The #1 reason for the release requests = coaching change. So it would have been more outside the norm to restrict.
