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Good SI Article on Epidemic in Basketball Transfers!


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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

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* 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

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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

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