Allow me to take you to the intersection of hypocrisy and absurdity, where the chamber of cards has finally officially collapsed.
Darian Devries left as a basketball coach in Duck After last season, the use of West Virginia shortly after leading Drake at the NCAA tournament. Late Tuesday afternoon, Indiana announced that it had hiring Devries of Virginie-Western.
It is three schools in less than a calendar year.
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It is the Indiana that pays the acquisition of Devries to WVU, and by proxy, the buyout of 2024 WVU paid in Drake.
It is Devries who exchanges from a job in mid-majeur, to a work of power conference, to a super blue blood of conference. Each time, receiving a significant increase in salary.
But wait, there is more: before Devries accepts the agreement with Indiana, he negotiated with Iowa.
Play schools and wages against the other, trying to find the best possible offer.
Gee, who does it look like?
Maybe, I don’t knowDillon Gabriel playing for the group of five UCFs, for Oklahoma and finally for Oregon. Or any other multiple transfer scenario of any other player.
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The same transfers and coaches and administrators of the free players movement say they kill university sports.
Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Doom and Gloom? Hypocrisy, line 1.
Why should we believe that something of presidents, coaches and university sports directors tell us? Why would someone look at what is going on year after year, Sport After Sport (including job sports directors) and feeling a semblance of structural and financial empathy?
Devries is just another in a long line of coaches that move away from current jobs for better jobs. Who leave programs after promising universities and players and communities that they are there for the long term, to get out of the city when a better opportunity arises.
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And frankly, I have no problem with that. None of anything.
But do not in any case hold you higher and more holy than the players who now do exactly the same thing in the new friendly setting of the players who have been given to them.
Do not talk about the end of university sports as we know it, or an unsustainable financial structure, or the death of the amateur model and the loss of what is important in the college experience.
Less than a year ago, Devries arrived at a crowded press conference in Morgantown, Virginia-Western, and said: “This place and people here, everything was logical for me and my family. It was a place that we could see ourselves here for a very long time. ”
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Or 11 months and two weeks. Which comes first.
Until the following blue blood in desperate to resume glory had just called. Until IOWA and finally Indiana start to launch millions to millions to go from Big 12 unstable to one of the two super conferences of university sports.
But a fun thing happened along the way to jump: no one cares. Not the cesspool of social media which regularly tears the players for a lack of loyalty and the loss of what they believe that university sports should be.
And certainly not university presidents and sports directors, who will continue to feed in an inevitable food chain and take others below them. Just as WVU did when he snatched Devries from Drake.
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How exactly is the difference between Devries leaving Virginia-Western in Big 12 for Indiana in Big Ten, and the quarter-Arrière John Mateer leaving the Washington State of PAC-12 dying for Oklahoma in the dry?
The two obtained enormous wage increases to do so. The two will be immediately under pressure to win now or.
One is a coach with the Téflon defense of a system of several decades. The other is a player who has unjustly become the definition of greed and delicacies in the past four years – in part, due to a story created by the presidents, coaches and sports directors.
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If it was not so absurd, it would be tragically comical.
Do what I say, not like me.
DEVRIES Wednesday was held before a crowded press conference in Bloomington, in Indiana, and described her vision of Indiana basketball. He kissed tradition. He said players have the program.
He talked about alignment and adjustment and function.
“The opportunity has taken place to be the Indiana head coach, a dream job for anyone,” said Devries. “But especially for someone who grew up in the Midwest by looking at the Old Big 8 and the Big Ten Basketball.”
Three schools in less than a calendar year.
Hopefully Kansas’ work will not open up soon.
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Matt Hayes is the National Editor of National University Football for USA Today Sports Network. Follow him on x to @Matthayescfb.
This article originally appeared on USA Today: Rental of Indiana underlines the hypocrisy of criticism of players transfers
