Control Freaks: Transfer Talk Continues as Coaches Assume Role of Puppeteer
May 11th, 2012 - 14:25
Hardheaded and/or heartless Division I coaches and athletic directors still don't seem to comprehend the national outrage at their toying with transfer players like master puppeteers. The administrators apparently want the NCAA to mandate that any player seeking a transfer must sit out a season; even if he wants to be closer to home because of an ill relative or has graduated and wants a waiver to promptly play for an institution boasting a graduate program unavailable at his present college.
There is no reciprocal discussion about coaches and ADs being forced to sit out a year if they choose to switch universities. For instance, a total of more than 160 mentors - including every year since 1968 - had a change of heart since then and accepted a similar job from a "poach-a-coach" major college immediately after directing a team to the NCAA playoffs. CollegeHoopedia.com wonders how much the following active coaches, including Southern Methodist coach-in-waiting Tim Jankovich, were consulted on this issue insofar as they have firsthand experience playing for a major college before transferring to another four-year school:
Since they can't trust their counterparts, forbidding intraconference player transfers is also on the agenda for the coaches and ADs. Again, there is no mention of the double standard whereby coaches aren't denied a right to do the same thing. We don't recall coach Bo Ryan raising a stink about intraconference transfers when Sharif Chambliss led the Badgers in assists and three-pointers in nearly guiding them to the 2005 Final Four in his lone season with them after leaving Penn State.
In regard to priorities, there is no word on coaches and conferences wanting the NCAA to introduce guidelines to determine a penalty to enforce if a player is caught doing drugs. Frontcourter Damontre Harris transferred within the SEC from South Carolina to Florida before any legislation denying such an occurrence. At any rate, CollegeHoopedia.com is unaware of the following players, including Xavier coach Chris Mack, causing extensive trouble because they transferred within a league:
Transfer Player Pos. Conference Two League Members Played For Al Akins ? Pacific Coast Washington State 42-43/Washington 44 Carvell Ammons F Big Ten Northwestern 97/Illinois 99 DeMario Anderson G Northeast Central Connecticut State 04-05/Quinnipiac 07-08 Luke Axtell F-G Big 12 Texas 98/Kansas 00-01 Jason Carter F Southeastern Alabama 11 | Mississippi 13 Sharif Chambliss G Big Ten Penn State 01-03/Wisconsin 05 Richard Congo F East Coast Lafayette 80/Drexel 82-84 Thomas Dodd C-F SWAC Texas Southern 95-96/Grambling 98-99 Charles Dorsey G Midwestern Collegiate Loyola of Chicago 81-82/Oral Roberts 84-85 Gary Ervin G Southeastern Mississippi State 04-05/Arkansas 07 Cedric Foster G SWAC Alcorn State 94-95/Mississippi Valley State 97-98 Lawrence Funderburke F Big Ten Indiana 90/Ohio State 92-94 Antonio Gates F Mid-American Eastern Michigan 00/Kent State 02-03 John Gordon G America East Maine 96-97/Delaware 99-00 Derick Grubb C West Coast Pepperdine 03-06/Loyola Marymount 07 Jason Grunkemeyer G Mid-American Ohio University 97/Miami (oh) 99-01 Damontre Harris C Southeastern South Carolina 11-12/Florida 14 Jason Hernandez G America East New Hampshire 97/Hofstra 99-01 Derek Holcomb C Big Ten Indiana 77/Illinois 79-81 Randy Holcomb F WAC/Mountain West Fresno State 99/San Diego State 01-02 David Huertas G Southeastern Florida 05-06/Mississippi 08 Lindsey Hunter G SWAC Alcorn State 89/Jackson State 91-93 Ben Johnson G Big Ten Northwestern 00-01/Minnesota 03 Napoleon Johnson C SWAC Texas Southern 80-81/Grambling 83-84 Oggie Kapetanovic C Ivy League Brown 97-98/Penn 00-01 John Lucas III G Big 12 Baylor 02-03/Oklahoma State 04 Chris Mack G Midwestern Collegiate Evansville 89-90/Xavier 93 Jamar Miles F SWAC Alabama A&M 99/Prairie View 01-03 Ross Neltner F-C Southeastern Louisiana State 04-05/Vanderbilt 07-08 Sam Okey F Big Ten Wisconsin 96-97/Iowa 99 Marvin Owens G-F Midwestern Collegiate Oklahoma City 84-85/Detroit 87-88 Jason Parker F Southeastern Kentucky 01/South Carolina 03 Charles Price F SWAC Grambling 86-87/Texas Southern 89-90 Luke Recker G-F Big Ten Indiana 98-99/Iowa 01 Brian Schmall G Big South Augusta 89-90/Radford 92-93 Glen Selbo G Big Ten Wisconsin 44 & 47/Michigan 46 Brad Sellers F Big Ten Wisconsin 82-83/Ohio State 85-86 Marcus Stewart F Big South Coastal Carolina 98-99/Winthrop 01 Curtis Stuckey G Missouri Valley Drake 88/Bradley 90-91 Kenny Taylor G Big 12 Baylor 02-03/Texas 04 Charles Terrell G Big West San Jose State 90-91/Pacific 93-94 Jarrod Uthoff F Big Ten Wisconsin 12 (RS) | Iowa 14 Eloy Vargas C Southeastern Florida 09/Kentucky 11-12 Damion Walker C-F WAC Texas Christian 96-97/New Mexico 99-00 Marcus Watkins G Big 12 Texas A&M 03-04/Missouri 05-06 Malcolm White F Southeastern Mississippi 08-09/Louisiana State 11-12 Trent Whiting G Mountain West Utah 00/Brigham Young 01 LeRon Williams F Southeastern Florida 95-96 | South Carolina 98-99