(04-02-2022 07:51 AM)Polish Hammer Wrote:  

(04-01-2022 08:22 AM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(04-01-2022 08:15 AM)Polish Hammer Wrote:  

(03-31-2022 09:58 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  There is definitely a Power 5 Programs market for top level Mid Major Players like Mark Sears as his AAU Coach reports that he has already received interest from Auburn, LSU, Alabama, Ole Miss, Texas, Creighton, Miami, West Virginia, Florida, Notre Dame, Georgetown, South Carolina among others. This new Transfer Portal era is a game changer, but not in a positive way for Mid Majors!

Before teams would tamper and try to poach your players, now with the portal being what it is they are blatant with the tampering. They see a kid on the bubble and could bring him in, work with him to develop him and hope he doesn’t get tired of sitting on the bench until he’s ready. Or they can let him go to a school lower on the totem pole, allow him to develop while playing immediately and then come back and grab him in a year or two to plug holes. We’re nothing more than JV programs for the big boys, as they need us to pad their records and develop players and coaches for them.

They can tamper with any kid if he is entered in the Portal. He is being recruited just like in high school.

If they convince a kid to enter the portal so he could transfer, then that is tampering and a no-no for all NCAA teams....except Kansas, Puke, NC, Texas, Notre Dame ,Kentucky....

They reach out to those around him to feel out the interest; once MAC kid Z hears a bigger program has interest he throws him name into the portal and then they officially extend an offer. These kids love the attention of being recruited, now it no long just happens in high school, they can do it a couple more times later. They can go to social media and give all glory for being given an offer, then whittle the list down, then make their selection, then go to the school for a year, give all glory again for that school for giving them the opportunity but they’re moving on and then repeat the cycle all over again. Curious why every kid leaving a program has such gracious things to say but are still leaving?

I agree PH, but I do feel it depends on what the bigger program can offer to the kid. If he knows he can start and be a feature in the offense, yes he will leave. But alot of times when you are the leading scorer on the team and the offense is built around your skills, it hard to leave that program, especially if you might be the 6th man off the bench and the next year your will be in competition of a starting spot on the Big Program you just went to.