Twitter critical of Dan Mullen following his transfer comments

The NCAA will allow one time transfers and Twitter was not happy with Dan Mullen’s take on the subject.

The NCAA has adopted a new transfer portal rule for the future. Now, student athletes in more major sports like football and basketball can transfer once and be immediately eligible at their new school.

There are some drawbacks of the new rule. There will be more transfers, and players may be less patient while they wait to develop. More potential negatives of the rule change include:

Fewer scholarships available to high school recruits. Power programs poaching players from small schools. Rosters turning over quicker than coaches can keep up.

Penn State football coach James Franklin has a well-informed opinion on the topic. Like all college football coaches, he has seen the risks and rewards of the transfer portal. Franklin knows the old system was being taken advantage of and was not producing equitable outcomes for all, as Georgia football fans know from the Luke Ford transfer.

James Franklin weighed in on transfers:

“Let’s be honest, over the last two years everybody knew all the transfer policies and the requirement to get immediate eligibility and everybody was saying whatever they had to say to become eligible.”

Overall, the new transfer rule is necessary. Student athletes should have an option to change schools if they are unhappy. In fact, they should not need a reason at all. Transfers should not be punished and have to sit out one season. Instead, they should be able to play immediately. The new transfer rule makes the system better.

It is troubling that coaches will now be tempted to recruit players from rivals, but that already happens to an extent.

For example, Florida Gators head coach Dan Mullen recruited and landed a transfer from Georgia, outside linebacker Brenton Cox. Mullen has gone on to secure even more transfers, but he still argues for players to stay longer and develop at Florida despite the new rule.

Twitter was not happy with Mullen’s comments, especially since they can be interpreted as hypocritical. Remember, Mullen left Mississippi State partially because that program was developing slowly.

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