Recently we have seen stories about kids wanting to transfer and being restricted as to where they are “allowed” and yet we see John L. Smith leaving a job he just took a few months ago to be a one-year caretaker for Arkansas.
I have no issue with having kids sit out a year when they transfer, but as we continually see coaches move back and forth with little impunity how is it they are allowed to hold their athletes to much stricter standards and rules than the manner in which they conduct their professional and personal lives.
Davey, I know we are not supposed to talk politics on here and I’m not going to, but when our politicians can do things like cheat on taxes and not pay taxes and claim ignorance, it’s the same with these coaches. There’s nobody holding them to a higher standard. They’re able to get the next job or keep same. Patrino will end up somewhere with a nice cushy job because he is a good college coach and that’s the bottom line. These kids are being held by a strict enforcement policy by the NCAA that say’s they have to sit out a year after transferring to a D-1 school. There are no enforcement policies by the Universities that limit coaches, just some buyout clause that can be picked up by the new school.
Fair example 10horns and I agree that there is a significant double standard between the head coaches and the kids. Not trying to back door the argument about paying kids (though I have some definite thoughts on that subject), but I don’t feel schools should have the control over a kid transferring as they do with the current rules.