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mass transfers like at WSU will become the norm.
P.J. Couisnard has a unique perspective to offer when discussing the five Wichita State men’s basketball scholarship players who’ve decided to transfer since the end of the season. For starters, Couisnard has experience playing for WSU coach Gregg Marshall. But what makes Couisnard’s opinion relevant about the current state of the program is that he understands the rapidly changing landscape of college basketball as a coach and owner of a successful AAU program, Cooz Elite, that he operates out of his hometown of Houston.
With the NCAA trending toward a decision to allow a free pass for first-time transfers beginning next season, Couisnard believes situations like the one this offseason at Wichita State, where even players who played significant minutes have decided to leave, will become the new norm in college basketball.
“I was just talking to my coaching staff last week and telling them that with the new transfer rules, college basketball is about to be like AAU,” Couisnard said.
“In the AAU world, you tell a kid that he’s not starting because he missed practice and that kid will be on a different team by the end of the day. Parents will ask you if their kid will start before they ask you how good the team is. It’s almost like basketball is not even a team sport anymore. Everybody is there for their own individual gain.”
“It was a problem you could almost foresee coming,” Couisnard said. “You figured that a couple of them were eventually going to leave just because they were all so young playing the same positions. I honestly think we were just too deep. We had 10 really, really good players and a lot of them played the same position and did a lot of the same things. Some people were going to start, some people were going to come off the bench. The way it is now, kids feel like if they want to have careers after this then they’ve got to be on the floor.”
P.J. Couisnard has a unique perspective to offer when discussing the five Wichita State men’s basketball scholarship players who’ve decided to transfer since the end of the season. For starters, Couisnard has experience playing for WSU coach Gregg Marshall. But what makes Couisnard’s opinion relevant about the current state of the program is that he understands the rapidly changing landscape of college basketball as a coach and owner of a successful AAU program, Cooz Elite, that he operates out of his hometown of Houston.
With the NCAA trending toward a decision to allow a free pass for first-time transfers beginning next season, Couisnard believes situations like the one this offseason at Wichita State, where even players who played significant minutes have decided to leave, will become the new norm in college basketball.
“I was just talking to my coaching staff last week and telling them that with the new transfer rules, college basketball is about to be like AAU,” Couisnard said.
“In the AAU world, you tell a kid that he’s not starting because he missed practice and that kid will be on a different team by the end of the day. Parents will ask you if their kid will start before they ask you how good the team is. It’s almost like basketball is not even a team sport anymore. Everybody is there for their own individual gain.”
“It was a problem you could almost foresee coming,” Couisnard said. “You figured that a couple of them were eventually going to leave just because they were all so young playing the same positions. I honestly think we were just too deep. We had 10 really, really good players and a lot of them played the same position and did a lot of the same things. Some people were going to start, some people were going to come off the bench. The way it is now, kids feel like if they want to have careers after this then they’ve got to be on the floor.”
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