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Zeller, Thomas returns make big impact - Luke Winn - SI.com
From article:
Coincidence? Probably not: Jarrod Uthoff is the most famous redshirt freshman in America thanks to the publicity from his transferring-out-of-Wisconsin saga, which became a major Internet (then radio, then TV) debate topic during a slow news week in April. Badgers coach Bo Ryan took heat for the way it was handled at the start -- having too many restrictions and giving one rough interview -- but the curious ending didn't get enough attention. After UW pared down its transfer restrictions to the standard anywhere-but-our-conference plan, Uthoff chose ... to still go to a Big Ten school, Iowa, and pay his own way for a year. And a few of the coaches re-recruiting him believed that he wanted to go home to Iowa the whole time, which raises two reasonable questions:
Did the initial breadth of UW's transfer-ban list even matter? And, given Uthoff or any related third parties were restricted from communicating with Iowa before or during the transfer process, are we supposed to believe that a top-100 recruit chose to turn down scholarship offers from Creighton, Florida, Iowa State and Marquette in favor of paying his way at Iowa, without having exchanged a single word with the staff, or getting any assurances of how he fit into the Hawkeyes' plans for 2013-14 and beyond? That's about as difficult to digest as the notion that the NCAA's transfer rules have student-athletes' best interests in mind.
(But given that the Badgers' likely starting two-guard was a somewhat controversial gift from Iowa's post-Todd Lickliter transition ... I guess things have pretty much evened out between the two schools, personnel-wise.)
From article:
Coincidence? Probably not: Jarrod Uthoff is the most famous redshirt freshman in America thanks to the publicity from his transferring-out-of-Wisconsin saga, which became a major Internet (then radio, then TV) debate topic during a slow news week in April. Badgers coach Bo Ryan took heat for the way it was handled at the start -- having too many restrictions and giving one rough interview -- but the curious ending didn't get enough attention. After UW pared down its transfer restrictions to the standard anywhere-but-our-conference plan, Uthoff chose ... to still go to a Big Ten school, Iowa, and pay his own way for a year. And a few of the coaches re-recruiting him believed that he wanted to go home to Iowa the whole time, which raises two reasonable questions:
Did the initial breadth of UW's transfer-ban list even matter? And, given Uthoff or any related third parties were restricted from communicating with Iowa before or during the transfer process, are we supposed to believe that a top-100 recruit chose to turn down scholarship offers from Creighton, Florida, Iowa State and Marquette in favor of paying his way at Iowa, without having exchanged a single word with the staff, or getting any assurances of how he fit into the Hawkeyes' plans for 2013-14 and beyond? That's about as difficult to digest as the notion that the NCAA's transfer rules have student-athletes' best interests in mind.
(But given that the Badgers' likely starting two-guard was a somewhat controversial gift from Iowa's post-Todd Lickliter transition ... I guess things have pretty much evened out between the two schools, personnel-wise.)
