Calipari critical of portal: ‘Same as one-and-done’

• Myron Medcalf, ESPN

  • Personnel WriterAug 29, 2023, 04:59 PM ET Close Covers college basketball
  • Joined ESPN.com in 2011
  • Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato

After the NBA altered its age requirement for draftees to 19 years of ages in 2006, John Calipari ended up being maybe the biggest supporter of the one-and-done era, a polarizing chapter in college basketball in which players have jumped to the pros after simply one season.With the development of

the transfer website in recent years, Calipari stated a comparable pattern is taking place again.

“It is one-and-done, too,” Calipari, appearing on “SportsCenter” on Tuesday, said of the website. “Everyone was mad about a young player being available in and just staying one year. Well, now we’re doing it with older players. It’s the very same as one-and-done.”

Calipari said hundreds of players who got in the transfer portal this year were left without scholarships. He likewise said head coaches are hanging on to extra scholarships simply in case a transfer might be available, which means “300-500” high school players won’t get scholarships, either.His solution? Allow players to transfer just as soon as without charge and to play just 4 years in a five-year window.Editor’s Picks 1 Related According to NCAA information, of the 1,385 Department I males’s basketball

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scholarship who entered the portal in 2015, 262 of them were left without a scholarship at a brand-new school.Calipari likewise said that the transfer website has produced age spaces between teams.

“We have actually got 26-and 27-year-olds playing 18-year-olds,”he said.The transfer website has formed college basketball in current years.In 2021, Baylor won a nationwide title with a group anchored by transfers. In 2022, then-Kentucky star Oscar Tshiebwe won the Wooden

Award after moving from West Virginia. And Kansas is predicted to be the No. 1 group in America going into the 2022-23 season after adding previous Michigan star Hunter Dickinson.” The issue ends up being: I think a kid ought to be able to move when without charges,”Calipari stated.”You slip up or you’re not where you want to be, I get it.

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