It’s time someone said it: transferring to a different school’s wrestling team is a betrayal and moral failure. Your teammates are your brothers... you sweat, bleed, and cry alongside them in victory and defeat. That’s why when a teenage wrestler makes a commitment to a school it should be FINAL. You owe your life to that school, coach, and teammates. What happened to accountability? Just because you’re facing some adversity getting in a line up doesn’t give you the excuse to jump ship. Why not try getting better at wrestling? You don’t see our US Marines transferring to Alaska’s military, so why do we accept wrestlers transferring?
Instead of the liberal NCAA giving cowards a way out, there should be penalties for those who choose to abandon the solemn oath of commitment they made as a 16 year old. Of course if schools required students to pay a larger sum up front they could withhold that payment as penalty for transfer. The problem is many students use loans to attend college, so you can’t withhold money you haven’t been paid. An alternative would be to collect a genetic sample from the athlete which could then be frozen and used to create a child with a willing egg donor who was raised inside the school, guaranteeing a future athlete of similar athletic pedigree. Additionally, the NCAA could just ban transfers but we know that’s not going to happen thanks to the sleepy commie in office.
Not knowing which athletes are competing for which teams, not building team camaraderie, and teaching kids that loyalty is something you p*** on are all problems ruining our sport and they’re all thanks to one thing: transfers. F**k ‘em.
Instead of the liberal NCAA giving cowards a way out, there should be penalties for those who choose to abandon the solemn oath of commitment they made as a 16 year old. Of course if schools required students to pay a larger sum up front they could withhold that payment as penalty for transfer. The problem is many students use loans to attend college, so you can’t withhold money you haven’t been paid. An alternative would be to collect a genetic sample from the athlete which could then be frozen and used to create a child with a willing egg donor who was raised inside the school, guaranteeing a future athlete of similar athletic pedigree. Additionally, the NCAA could just ban transfers but we know that’s not going to happen thanks to the sleepy commie in office.
Not knowing which athletes are competing for which teams, not building team camaraderie, and teaching kids that loyalty is something you p*** on are all problems ruining our sport and they’re all thanks to one thing: transfers. F**k ‘em.
