Good SI Article on Epidemic in Basketball Transfers!

[Red Don]

 

 

Part I of SI's study shows that today's elite basketball prospects are often on the move. Nomadism is lamented by coaches, but is that a hypocritical stance? Part II puts transfer rates in context with coaching turnover, and shows that players are hardly the sport's only transients.

 

Nomadism is more extreme at the high-school level, where approximately half of top-100 recruits attend multiple schools prior to college. The college transfer rates of multiple-high school attendees were much higher than those of single-high school attendees.

 

 

 

 

Part I: (Player transfer study)

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/07/29/top-100-high-school-recruits-transfer-behavior-study

 

Part II:  (Coaches movement/transfer study)

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/07/29/college-basketball-coaching-movement-transfer-study

[jimmykc]

* This doesn't surprise me at all. Persistence in any achievement seems to be looked down upon now. It is so much easier to blame someone else and just start over somewhere different where your talents will be recognized and appreciated. I would guess marriage statistics would mirror these statistics. Andy would have never gotten out of Shawshank if he were a member of Generation X.                         * fogie alert

[hhcmatt]

Andy would have never gotten out of Shawshank if he were a member of Generation X.                         * fogie alert

 

You must be referring to coaches here as, with the exception of Grant Gibbs, today's players are referred to as Millennials

[AuroranHusker]

 

Andy would have never gotten out of Shawshank if he were a member of Generation X.                         * fogie alert

 

You must be referring to coaches here as, with the exception of Grant Gibbs, today's players are referred to as Millennials

 

 

Generation Y, not X, for sure. "Millennial" is another name for Y'ers

[jimmykc]

Unfortunately I was born just a bit too early to qualify as a "Baby Boomer" so my peers were not able to have a generation label applied unless you want to use the "silent generation" which never really caught on, for good reason. Maybe that's why we are all so bitter and crabby. Won't make any difference before too long.

[Navin R. Johnson]

I think it went:

Youth of the 1930's were the finest generation

" " " 50's " " silent. "

60's. Baby boomers

Early 80's. Tweeners

90's. Generation X

2000. Generation Y

Today. Millennials

[jimmykc]

There you go. I was born in the early forties. Maybe I should coin the term,the "bitter generation". Makes me want to smear on some lipstick and start searching the phone book, Navin.

[AuroranHusker]

I think it went:

Youth of the 1930's were the finest generation

" " " 50's " " silent. "

60's. Baby boomers

Early 80's. Tweeners

90's. Generation X

2000. Generation Y

Today. Millennials

 

I thought Gen. Y & Millennials have been kind of lumped together. Guess it depends on who you ask...

[Navin R. Johnson]

Could be. I assumed after a while they, who ever they are, needed a new name for a new generation. Which of course has nothing to do with Nebraska basketball!

[AuroranHusker]

Could be. I assumed after a while they, who ever they are, needed a new name for a new generation. Which of course has nothing to do with Nebraska basketball!

 

It is entertaining to connect dots that do not seem to, you know, connect.