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Transfer Season

Thirdhand scuttlebutt that THE osu is picking up a big transfer from a bottom WCHA team. PGB will be happy if this happens.
 
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ARM said:
Should Wisconsin have its own Transfer thread? Discuss.
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LOL, which brings up the question, why no "Recruiter of the Year" award? We have the Patty Kaz, and awards for best Goaltender and best Coach. Why not best Recruiter? <wink>
 
Rightnut said:
Possibly. Rumor is there will be departures.
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If all the Sr's come back and with 3 Fr forwards coming in, certainly there is a issue where one may have thought their chance was coming and now they could get pushed back with the retainage of F's and lose opportunity to the new F's. But I think this just isn't a WI issue, all the top teams are in the same boat. WI could lose a few players to the Olympics, which could help the issue a bit though temporarily. Plus you already have 2 Natty rings, why not go somewhere where you can play more? You've accomplished a lofty goal already. Of course you are giving up a degree from one of the best U's in the country, so that is a negative. I think the transfer portal's server is going to crash this spring/summer.
 
Folks Wisconsin and Minnesota are on the you pay for two, we pay for two plan. Perhaps the seniors and of course their parents finally realize that there is no lucrative women's hockey after college and why accumulate more debt could be the easy answer as to why some players won't stay.

The smart school is a school that didn't sign anyone in November and held those scholarships open. I wonder if any program out there rolled the dice?
 
I think we've obviously learned the transfer portal brings a whole new element beyond traditional recruiting during the offseason and even DURING the season.
Right, Timothy A? (Wink!)
 
Reddington said:
Folks Wisconsin and Minnesota are on the you pay for two, we pay for two plan. Perhaps the seniors and of course their parents finally realize that there is no lucrative women's hockey after college and why accumulate more debt could be the easy answer as to why some players won't stay.

The smart school is a school that didn't sign anyone in November and held those scholarships open. I wonder if any program out there rolled the dice?
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I have heard of some schools who touted their recruits holding them off on NLI's until this week. I guess that makes them smart? But it also kind of sucks?
 
Hockeybuckeye said:
Who else?
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It isn't quite the same, but similar. First line winger for Northeastern Maureen Murphy transferred from Providence to Northeastern after 2019-2020. Hockey East has a conference rule that she would have had to sit out a full year, but they apparently waived it, such that Murphy started playing at the end of January, even later than Eden did for Wisconsin.
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
Who else?
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She was never in the portal. From the WI ST Journal:

"There’s no delay for players who transfer between schools in NCAA women’s hockey. But there’s still a sometimes exhaustive process to go through.

Not so with Eden for two reasons:
  • She never started at Princeton, so she didn’t have to go through the transfer portal.
  • Ivy League schools don’t use the National Letter of Intent that ties players to a team until they’re released.
Despite not having to clear those barriers, Eden was a prisoner of paperwork before she could get on the LaBahn Arena ice."

The article also states that she tried to enroll for the fall, but by the time Princeton pulled the plug the window was too tight to get enrolled for the fall.

Here's the whole article. https://madison.com/wsj/sports/coll...cle_12a922ec-8177-5637-a20b-03227265deb6.html
 
Timothy A said:
She was never in the portal. From the WI ST Journal:

"There’s no delay for players who transfer between schools in NCAA women’s hockey. But there’s still a sometimes exhaustive process to go through.

Not so with Eden for two reasons:
  • She never started at Princeton, so she didn’t have to go through the transfer portal.
  • Ivy League schools don’t use the National Letter of Intent that ties players to a team until they’re released.
Despite not having to clear those barriers, Eden was a prisoner of paperwork before she could get on the LaBahn Arena ice."

The article also states that she tried to enroll for the fall, but by the time Princeton pulled the plug the window was too tight to get enrolled for the fall.

Here's the whole article. https://madison.com/wsj/sports/colle...27265deb6.html
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We touched on Eden and the transfer portal on another thread and I don't think that she wasn't in the transfer portal came up or it could have and it simply didn't register in my mind.
So this is new to me, thanks for clarifying.
Now, that the Ivy League doesn't do letters of intent is new to me as well. A letter of intent besides a commitment between a player and a school is also a guarantee that scholarship money to some degree will be awarded. Players who are not getting scholarship money do not sign letters. How do they award scholarship guarantees that meet NCAA rules without the letter? I had always thought the letter was part of NCAA rules and couldn't be bypassed?
 
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