From afar, this transfer portal thing is crazy.
1. You have the guys who didn't get playing time transferring laterally or down for a better fit.
2. You have the low/mid majors wanting to move up a level.
3. You have the guys leaving due to coaching change.
4. Still have the last of the extra Covid Year guys lingering around.
5. You have guys leaving perfectly good situations looking for money. Not education. Not winning. Just money.
I'm OK with options 1-3. The covid year thing is getting really old, but whatever.
Number 5 is what might kill college basketball as we know it. It will turn into NFL free agency without a salary cap, contracts, or consequences for tampering. Professional sports without regulation. I'm not against college athletes making money, but there needs to be guard rails.
Purdue can try to swim against the current, but it's only a matter of time before someone we all love like Edey's phone rings with an offer none of us could refuse and they're out the door. It's happening at other schools, and we're naive to think it won't happen here either. When this becomes the norm, I think a large number of fans will lose interest, resulting in a loss of revenue for the sport, and maybe something will finally be done to fix the problem.