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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 02-21-2020, 03:59 PM:

On Tuesday, the NCAA announced it is considering a rule change that would allow Division I athletes – on a one-time basis – to transfer to any school of their choosing without restriction starting in the 2020-21 academic year.

In his first time addressing the news publicly on his call-in radio show on Wednesday evening, UK head coach John Calipari told listeners that he was in favor of the proposal, but only if the NCAA figured out a way to ban tampering and other potential corruption.

“That doesn’t bother me,” Calipari said. “The thing that the NCAA would have to be able to do is to make sure they have rules in place for tampering and that people get fired. Not a penalty. If your program is found to do this, you as a head coach will be fired. Don’t tamper.

“But, on the other side of it is, if a kid picked the wrong school or the coach made a mistake in recruiting, why shouldn’t the kid leave? It’s not about you or the program or embarrassment; the kid should go one time. What you don’t want is because of a kid the first time they’re coached aggressively or the first time they’re taken out of the game or the first time someone else plays more than them, that they’re looking to go from one school to the next school to the next school to the next school. We don’t want that; it’s not good for the kids, let alone good for college basketball. It wouldn’t be good for the kids.”

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Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 02-21-2020, 04:55 PM:

Sure wish Cal would have talked to me before he went public with this statement.

[ 02-21-2020, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: handycat ]

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 02-21-2020, 07:44 PM:

Me too, Handy! The jury is still out on this one!