Could be. I guess tbh I don’t have a clear idea of how majors work elsewhere
Idk about the major side of it. Specific major credits are probably harder to transfer at UVA than at other schools. But the overall credit hours typically require half to be earned at the institution conferring the degree. And I’m pretty sure that’s why Garnder couldn’t graduate not because he had issues with his specific major. There’s almost no way he could’ve already earned 60 hours at UVA.
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Mine only required 15 of the last 24 credits there to post degree from there.
Just a quick comparison: UVa vs. Kansas. According to these links (no idea if this is correct) you need to earn 60 credits at UVa vs. only 30 at Kansas. Picking them b/c they’re top of mind for obvious reasons.
Even if Kansas is at the other extreme, my guess is most of our peer basketball schools (call it top 25 or so) have easier transfer requirements than us.
Just eyeballing a few others:
Miami - 45
Nova - 30
UNC - 45
Texas Tech - 30
Duke - 2 years
(and a non-hoops but academic peer)
Williams - 2 years
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I work in higher education and the general standard is that you need to earn at least 25% of your credit hours at an institution in order to receive a diploma. For an undergrad degree that’s around 30 credit hours. However, that’s the minimum and it varies A LOT by major. UVA , Michigan, and Stanford all have similar 60 credit requirements where Indiana and Iowa are less strict. The problem is for many schools, they will happily accept your credits, but that doesn’t mean that every credit will apply toward your degree.
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I stand corrected. And also more down about the state of higher education in this country than I was 2 hours ago.
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Yeah, there’s a different conversation what the right policy is (my basic view is different policies might work for different institutions), but we are behind most of our hoops peers (but probably roughly similar to our academic hoop peers, like Duke, U Mich, etc.) in terms of attractiveness to hoops short term transfers
Also, to correct a takeaway from above: I think we need to focus on grad transfers (not guys with one year of school left) and guys who have only completed one year, maybe two.
Fwiw, Michigan got Chaundee Brown last year and Devante Jones this year, despite me thinking they’re in that not ideal bucket of 3 years elsewhere (i.e., they couldn’t have gotten a Mich degree). Chaundee in particular got 3 years of Wake and 1 year of Mich and (at least as a rough guess) has no degree to show for it. He’s currently bouncing around between 2-ways and 10-days in the league.
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Long gone. He was gone when he said NBA teams wanted to see him as a one anyways
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Vecine ranked him as the number one transfer a couple days ago
Oh yeah he has a lot to offer. 1st team big 12 with technically 3 years left and really good 3pt shooter. Perfect replacement for Roach, since Caleb Foster most likely staying 2023
What’s depressing or at least mildly irritating, is this: “who’d be better than us at selling the ‘Come for 1 and you’ll boost your NBA stock’ package” ?
Hauser is a possibility to make the playoff roster for the C’s (isn’t he?) and Murph went #17. But my sense is that other teams are selling that package and not delivering it, and my sense is we are delivering it without selling it.
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it’s one of those things where you have to wait until the end of the transfer cycle to see who uva actually got. uva has had great success essentially each year in bringing an impact transfer.
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Lots of elite teams can offer that selling point.
Here are the two that can make as good a claim based on last year: Scott Drew ( but his guys were 2 year guys) and Dana Altman.
I don’t see anyone this year. Forbes has 2 potential 2nd rounders , but in the non guaranteed range (45+ or so)
@HiltonHeadHoo I meant portal guys, not just one and done guys in general
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Take him and bye bye Papi
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All day long. I couldn’t understand some of our fans believing that replacing Papi in our lineup was somehow unnecessary. Would be a sad waste of next year’s team to live through the kind of post futility we endured this year.
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TONY PLEASE
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