re: Brandon Kennedy transferring

Tampering and poaching are wrong and it should be dealt with harshly if found. However I do not believe we should prevent where kids should attend because of the potential of tampering.

What is most likely is Kennedy was transferring regardless just like Smith was. I don't deny that is more of an issue if he moves in conference but unless there is proof he was tampered with that is a different issue than exercising your option to transfer and choosing where you want to go.

As far as the numbers are concerned there were 117 graduate transfers in FBS college football in 2016 less than 1 per division one program.

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Outside of beach volleyball where an initial influx of graduate transfers has been noted, graduate transfers are most prevalent on a percentage basis in men’s basketball (1.9 percent of current players are grad transfers), women’s basketball, men’s and women’s track and field, and football. Only one-half of 1 percent of men’s football student-athletes were graduate transfers in 2016. However, the number of such cases has increased sevenfold since 2011 (17 in 2011, 117 in 2016). Trends across all Division I sports are shown in the full study results.

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We are up to about 180 this year overall. As I stated before 16 were out of the SEC and most pursued non power 5 opportunities.