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<blockquote data-quote="Sal Iacuzzo" data-source="post: 1208189" data-attributes="member: 532712"><p>I don't put 5th year transfers in the same box as guys taking up multiple years of scholarships. As I said before they are no risk high reward. A bad 5th year transfer is still better than an unused scholarship. Our problem with transfers is we committed 9 1/2 year of scholarships to guys that only played 3 1/2 years. As John Groce has said many times "scholarships are like gold" and we had 6 years of empty scholarships devoted to transfers.</p><p></p><p>Starks did not meet the requirements for being immediately eligible but we tried to get it through anyway. I don't think you can fully absolve the coaching staff on that one, it was a gamble and it didn't work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sal Iacuzzo, post: 1208189, member: 532712"] I don't put 5th year transfers in the same box as guys taking up multiple years of scholarships. As I said before they are no risk high reward. A bad 5th year transfer is still better than an unused scholarship. Our problem with transfers is we committed 9 1/2 year of scholarships to guys that only played 3 1/2 years. As John Groce has said many times "scholarships are like gold" and we had 6 years of empty scholarships devoted to transfers. Starks did not meet the requirements for being immediately eligible but we tried to get it through anyway. I don't think you can fully absolve the coaching staff on that one, it was a gamble and it didn't work. [/QUOTE]
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