Oh the irony of Iowa fans complaining about Transfer Portal ruining college sports

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

When Iowa literally has the most transfer starters of any D-1 team (7 out of 10 starters are transfers)...

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/portal-impacts-to-college-athletics.426335/

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Transfers: Cruz, Teske, Woods, Voinovich, Franek, Swafford, Caliendo

And could add A.J. Ferrari as a transfer too since his sexual battery trial was "stricken":

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/ferrari-sexual-battery-trial-stricken.426322/

[Wrestleknownothing]

34 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

When Iowa literally has the most transfer starters of any D-1 team (7 out of 10 starters are transfers)...

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/portal-impacts-to-college-athletics.426335/

Shouldn't you just sign up for HR already? The debate is over there.

[1032004]

Lol I saw the “stricken” thing, apparently it just means delayed.

 

[WildTurk]

20 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Shouldn't you just sign up for HR already? The debate is over there.

No kidding.  He links everyone to HR on a weekly basis.  He might as well just pin a link at the top of page.  If people wanted to go to the  Hawkeye forums wouldn't they just go there daily like I do?

[ionel]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

When Iowa literally has the most transfer starters of any D-1 team (7 out of 10 starters are transfers)...

https://iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/portal-impacts-to-college-athletics.426335/

 

30 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Shouldn't you just sign up for HR already? The debate is over there.

Don't ya love a good cat fight. 

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

55 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Shouldn't you just sign up for HR already? The debate is over there.

Who said I don't already don't post there?

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

Who said I don't already don't post there?

Me

[PencilNeck]

How do we define transfer here? Some of those were past transfers, but if you started last year for a school and are going to start this year, you're a returner, not a transfer.

[RYou]

On 9/27/2023 at 1:10 PM, PencilNeck said:

How do we define transfer here? Some of those were past transfers, but if you started last year for a school and are going to start this year, you're a returner, not a transfer.

"transfer" is forever imbedded in his Iowa bio.

[1032004]

On 9/27/2023 at 1:10 PM, PencilNeck said:

How do we define transfer here? Some of those were past transfers, but if you started last year for a school and are going to start this year, you're a returner, not a transfer.

Well the OP specifically mentions the “transfer portal,” and all of the guys he listed are products of that except for Swafford.  It’s silly to count guys from other divisions as transfers.  But Jimmy knows this, it’s his typical sprinkling in an obvious troll into a valid comment

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

3 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Well the OP specifically mentions the “transfer portal,” and all of the guys he listed are products of that except for Swafford.  It’s silly to count guys from other divisions as transfers.  But Jimmy knows this, it’s his typical sprinkling in an obvious troll into a valid comment

so if a D-2 wrestler transfers to a D-1 school he's not considered a transfer?

[headshuck]

Coaches always carry a handful of “pass through portal first” tokens.

[Jason Bryant]

 It’s silly to count guys from other divisions as transfers.  

They transferred … so they are, by the definition of the word, transfers.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

I think someone like a Mo Lawal or a Jody Strittmatter were pretty solid transfers, despite being from lower division schools.

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

11 minutes ago, Jason Bryant said:

 

They transferred … so they are, by the definition of the word, transfers.

 

Amazing how the English language works like that.

[PencilNeck]

1 hour ago, Jason Bryant said:

 

They transferred … so they are, by the definition of the word, transfers.

 

absolutely. but when you look at a lineup and see an athlete who has been wearing your team's singlet for over a year, is he a transfer or a returner?

 

[1032004]

3 hours ago, Jason Bryant said:

 

They transferred … so they are, by the definition of the word, transfers.

 

Swafford did not come from the portal though as he came from NAIA.   I guess D2/D3 guys would?

[Jason Bryant]

1 hour ago, PencilNeck said:

absolutely. but when you look at a lineup and see an athlete who has been wearing your team's singlet for over a year, is he a transfer or a returner?

 

He's both. He's a returning transfer. It's not an either/or distinction. Just have to ask the right question. 

Another comparison: You're regarded as a "redshirt senior" if you redshirt before your freshman year or after your junior year. If you compete after a redshirt, you're not just a redshirt that season following.

[Jason Bryant]

Just now, 1032004 said:

Swafford did not come from the portal though as he came from NAIA.   I guess D2/D3 guys would?

Transfers existed before the portal. They're still transfers. 

[1032004]

22 minutes ago, Jason Bryant said:

Transfers existed before the portal. They're still transfers. 

Yes I get that, just pointing out that Jimmy was complaining about people complaining about the transfer portal.

But yes, while technically transfers, guys transferring from other divisions is very different than the portal, as there is not typically multiple schools trying to get them.

 

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

54 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Yes I get that, just pointing out that Jimmy was complaining about people complaining about the transfer portal.

But yes, while technically transfers, guys transferring from other divisions is very different than the portal, as there is not typically multiple schools trying to get them.

 

I was not complaining.  I was just pointing out the irony of Iowa fans complaining about transfer ruining sports when they're the biggest beneficiaries of transfers in terms of starters on a D-1 wrestling team.

[Idaho]

7 hours ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

so if a D-2 wrestler transfers to a D-1 school he's not considered a transfer?

If a poster on themat.com forum takes  another posters screen name  to use on the new  Intermat forum, does that poster really exist?  

[Jason Bryant]

2 hours ago, 1032004 said:

But yes, while technically transfers, guys transferring from other divisions is very different than the portal, as there is not typically multiple schools trying to get them.

 

It's absolutely no difference within the three NCAA divisions in regards to this statement. There are D2 and D3 guys in the portal, same as D1.