MMM Reacts Survey Results: Limiting transfers is a good idea, fans say

Four schools in four years. Playing college basketball into your mid-20s. Maybe even your late-20s. Coming back to school after an excursion in the pros.

All that seems crazy … because it is.

In fact, 64% of Mid-Major Madness fans believe limiting transfers is a good idea. This question stemmed from President Donald Trump signing an executive order earlier this month aimed at limiting players to transferring once without having to sit out and completing their careers within a five-year span from when they begin. Should a school enter an agreement, particularly an NIL agreement, with a player that violates this mandate, the school could risk losing federal funding.

Several notable personalities in the college basketball sphere have addressed the issues surrounding the transfer portal and NIL in recent weeks and months. Many of them have pointed out that the current system and set-up are broken.

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Arkansas head coach John Calipari (former UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky head man) has been especially outspoken and advocated for allowing players to transfer only once without having to sit out. If they change schools again, then they’d have to sit out.

He raised concerns over players finishing their degrees if they are on the move each year. He said the root of constant transferring is extortion. Players are seeking to make the most money possible each season, he reasoned.

“If we cure the transfer rule, 70% of our problems go away,” Calipari said. “We can deal with all the other stuff.”

He also touched on the economics of the current system for some players. He posed the hypothetical of a player coming to college from a poor background, making a substantial amount of money in college, getting acclimated to that type of lifestyle and then entering the workforce to earn entry-level pay.

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“You know what’s worse than being poor?” he asked. “Coming across some money and then being poor again.”

He also posed the question of what this setup does for a…

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