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(03-14-2022 01:47 PM)ODUDon Wrote:  

(03-14-2022 12:56 PM)ODone Wrote:  Recruiting is completely changed now with the new transfer rules and the accompanying HUGE number of kids who are transfer now. You can run a program with much fewer high school commitments now. In fact, one could make a case that the transfer-heavy strategy is smarter with the new rules. If you get a kid on his first transfer, he doesn’t sit out a year - but does have to sit on his second move. Every freshman you sign can leave without sitting out at any point in his career at his first school, so you are much more vulnerable to turnover with a team full of h.s. recruits who have never transferred. Now, I have no idea if our staff will be great or horrible at leveraging this - but it sure looks like that’s at least the short-term plan.

I went to a meet and greet with Ricky Rahne a couple years ago and there were allot of questions surrounding possible PSU transfers. One thing he pointed out was that you do not know whether someone in the portal has actually committed until they enroll in school. He said it was not uncommon for players to have 2 or 3 schools who think they have a player coming so the losers get a nasty surprise very late in the process. Seems like a dangerous way to construct a team IMHO.

No doubt. It's a crappy system IMO - but it's the reality right now. The rules set up a similar risk with every kid on your roster whom you were the first to sign - every year, they can transfer without anything on the line as far as sitting out a year. A kid you signed off the transfer portal at least has to sit out of year if they leave. You sort of have to re-recruit your high school signees every year until they leave or use up eligibility in this environment, which leaves a program very vulnerable. Add NIL money, and college basketball is almost nothing like it was when ODU was rolling. What a mess.