[lex24]

My guess is most of us on this board are like me, old farts. (62). From different eras, with different mindsets.  Back when we were yutes, college athletes played at one school.  Almost exclusively.  You had the rare transfer.  Emphasis rare.  Then kids could leave “early”, generally after junior year to go to NFL/NBA. Still relatively rare.

Now it’s free agency.  Add that, particularly in hoops, the program that mattered to most recruited high schoolers was not their HS team. It was AAU.  And the point of most high level AAU programs is exposure.  Not team.  Not wins and losses.  

All this leads to a greater “me” emphasis.  Team less important.  Making it that much easier to transfer if you aren’t getting the minutes you feel you deserve, or the system doesn’t show off your skills or if the coach isnt cowtowing to your needs.

It isn’t a “ Haase” issue.  It’s College basketball (and football) in this era.

The open transfer rule is a disaster for Stanford sports.  They will lose  kids.  Getting them, given admissions, will be very difficult. So it’s gotta be quality over quantity.  Brendon Scarlett being Exhibit A.

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Haase seems to have retention problems.   While each case is different, this is another area where the trend has not been his friend.

Almost every school in D1 has some form of retention problem. The transfer portal is an epidemic, and was already so before the freebie year (this year is just insane). 

To back this up, I have actually been keeping track of PAC-12 MBB transfers over the past 4 seasons. Conference schools are averaging roughly 2.5 outbound transfers per year (and this year is way worse). Haase has been tied for or below the median every season. It just happens to be way easier everywhere else to plug those holes immediately.

Isn’t the freebie rule now permanent?

[lex24]

My guess is most of us on this board are like me, old farts. (62). From different eras, with different mindsets.  Back when we were yutes, college athletes played at one school.  Almost exclusively.  You had the rare transfer.  Emphasis rare.  Then kids could leave “early”, generally after junior year to go to NFL/NBA. Still relatively rare.

Now it’s free agency.  Add that, particularly in hoops, the program that mattered to most recruited high schoolers was not their HS team. It was AAU.  And the point of most high level AAU programs is exposure.  Not team.  Not wins and losses.  

All this leads to a greater “me” emphasis.  Team less important.  Making it that much easier to transfer if you aren’t getting the minutes you feel you deserve, or the system doesn’t show off your skills or if the coach isnt cowtowing to your needs.

It isn’t a “ Haase” issue.  It’s College basketball (and football) in this era.

The open transfer rule is a disaster for Stanford sports.  They will lose  kids.  Getting them, given admissions, will be very difficult. So it’s gotta be quality over quantity.  Brendon Scarlett being Exhibit A.

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Haase seems to have retention problems.   While each case is different, this is another area where the trend has not been his friend.

Almost every school in D1 has some form of retention problem. The transfer portal is an epidemic, and was already so before the freebie year (this year is just insane). 

To back this up, I have actually been keeping track of PAC-12 MBB transfers over the past 4 seasons. Conference schools are averaging roughly 2.5 outbound transfers per year (and this year is way worse). Haase has been tied for or below the median every season. It just happens to be way easier everywhere else to plug those holes immediately.

Isn’t the freebie rule now permanent?