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Sep 3, 2018
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I'm guessing some people here are not college football fans. How many Alabama kids are on Saban's roster? How many South Carolina kids on the Clemson roster? Etc. As long as colleges permit out of state students, athletes are going to be a part of that equation. And coaches will do their best to find the best talent for their team, regardless what state they are from. As a Penn State graduate, I know that they have a fondness for PA football players, and rightfully so. There is a great deal of football talent in this state. But they recruit from out of state as well. And I don't blame them. If the big boys are recruiting nationally, they need to do the same in order to compete.


Make the rule be across all sports, a sort of title ix(b). The student athletes must reflect the make up of the student body. If 85% of the schools students are in state, then 85% of the athletes in scholarship must be as well, or if an out of state student must pay 4 times the tuition fee as an instate student, then an out of state athlete must take 4 of scholarships that athletes sport is allotted.
No matter what sport it is, a state school should be represented by that states athletes
 
Jul 16, 2013
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Make the rule be across all sports, a sort of title ix(b). The student athletes must reflect the make up of the student body. If 85% of the schools students are in state, then 85% of the athletes in scholarship must be as well, or if an out of state student must pay 4 times the tuition fee as an instate student, then an out of state athlete must take 4 of scholarships that athletes sport is allotted.
No matter what sport it is, a state school should be represented by that states athletes

I seriously doubt the NCAA would be in favor of such a plan.
 
Sep 3, 2018
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I seriously doubt the NCAA would be in favor of such a plan.


That's because the ncaa is based in Indiana, a state void of talent in nearly every sport.

As a purely financial issue I am surprised a state like California and it's representatives in Congress have not yet pushed for this. California tax payers have paid for a good deal of the development of all of the California based players. California property taxes have paid for the fields and schools these players have played on to develop their skills. The players are commodities that California has raised and funded from Tee ball up until the point some other state is going to come in and steal that commodity with no compensation to the tax payers that developed that commodity.
Hopefully what we will see is politicians take a stand and fight for the athletic programs of their state's schools. If maybe not a ban on the athletes leaving the state, perhaps a fee from the stealing schools athletic department to the university system of the state that the players are being stolen from, say 50k a year per athlete.
 
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Why don't you start a Go Fund Me page to build a wall around California to protect the athletes?
 
Feb 12, 2015
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Make the rule be across all sports, a sort of title ix(b). The student athletes must reflect the make up of the student body. If 85% of the schools students are in state, then 85% of the athletes in scholarship must be as well, or if an out of state student must pay 4 times the tuition fee as an instate student, then an out of state athlete must take 4 of scholarships that athletes sport is allotted.
No matter what sport it is, a state school should be represented by that states athletes

No thanks...to any of this.
 
Feb 12, 2015
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That's because the ncaa is based in Indiana, a state void of talent in nearly every sport.

As a purely financial issue I am surprised a state like California and it's representatives in Congress have not yet pushed for this. California tax payers have paid for a good deal of the development of all of the California based players. California property taxes have paid for the fields and schools these players have played on to develop their skills. The players are commodities that California has raised and funded from Tee ball up until the point some other state is going to come in and steal that commodity with no compensation to the tax payers that developed that commodity.
Hopefully what we will see is politicians take a stand and fight for the athletic programs of their state's schools. If maybe not a ban on the athletes leaving the state, perhaps a fee from the stealing schools athletic department to the university system of the state that the players are being stolen from, say 50k a year per athlete.

The offices of the NCAA employees are in Indiana. Those employees do not make the rules of the different sports sanctioned by the NCAA. Representatives of the member schools of the NCAA make the rules...all of them.
 
May 24, 2013
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Hadn't noticed this but it looks like 4 of 6 off to Texas.

https://www.flosoftball.com/articles/6292992-sophomore-catcher-mary-iakopo-transfers-to-texas

The record has now been established. Which new coach in 2020 will be able to pull over 5 of this former players next year?

Although this was my initial assumption when she announced leaving Oregon (Iakopo was recruited and verballed as a freshman by Coach White), I had heard from a friend who knows her family that she was looking at Florida or UCLA. She's a powerful player on both sides of the ball.
 
Sep 3, 2018
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Does the school the players transfer from get to sign off on whether or not the player can transfer to without penalty like they can in football. For example, if a player at Auburn wants to transfer to say, Alabama, Auburn can not sign off and the player will have to sit out a year. But if that Auburn player decided to transfer to Florida State the school can look at the Seminoles as a non conf team they likely won't play and then sign the waiver so the player doesn't have to sit. The only exception is if the player has already graduated but still has ncaa eligibility he can be a graduate transfer to any school he wants.
If this rule is also in softball, why would organ allow all of these players leave their school and go where the coach just left for without making all of the players slit out a year and lose a years eligibility?
 

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