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Date Posted: 10:19:03 04/08/24 Mon
No disrespect to the fine women who play softball in the Ivy League, but if we lose a star freshman pitcher to the NIL transfer portal, we might as well just shut down the conference. That is, if we can't hang onto a softball player, we won't be able to hang onto anybody.
Think about how much the world has changed for college coaches.
Just three years ago, if a kid committed to you as a high school recruit, you owned that kid. You could yell at that kid, make his life miserable, not play him -- and he was pretty much stuck in your program.
And it's not just football and men's basketball; it's a lot of sports you wouldn't expect. Think about Katey Stone at Harvard. She was some kind of wannabe abuser way beyond the desire to win hockey games. I think that, historically, some people, especially men, went into coaching because they got off on yelling at people. I mean, got off on it.
Today, the moment that kid throws a no-hitter or makes ten three-pointers in a game, now the Hsu is on the other foot. The player has all the leverage and the coach is reverted back to recruiting the kid -- every single day, in every game, in every practice.
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