Loyalty: AJ Storr Keeps His Yearly Tradition Alive, Leaving Kansas To Go To His 4th College In 4 Years (Also His 8th School In The Last 8 Years)
This right here is why people will bitch about the transfer portal. You simply can't have a guy going to his 4th college in 4 years, the only way that should be possible is if somehow his coach keeps getting fired or retiring. Forget the fact he's going to his eighth school in eight years, it's going to be his fourth major Division I team. The move from St. John's to Wisconsin, sure, I understand that. Mike Anderson got fired, Storr made the move to Wisconsin and was a focal point of the offense. He turned that into this report:
He was nothing at Kansas despite being one of the top players in the portal. In fact Kansas had its worst season under Bill Self and now every player from that team is gone. Kansas! This was a program that used to have guys around forever because you can't really get better than Kansas. It's a blueblood. People don't typically transfer from a blueblood once they made it there.
To me the transfer portal should have always been used a certain way. Guys who were under recruited out of high school using it after breaking out a little bit and getting a chance to play at a better program or guys who didn't want to sit on the bench at a power program transferring down. Instead we get this. I hate that factor. It's why I scream to make it a 1-time free transfer for everyone and then you can transfer without sitting out again if your coach leaves.
I get moving to prep schools is weird, but does AJ Storr not realize how much moving blows? I don't care how much money you want to give me at some point I'm done moving. Packing shit up and then remembering you have to unpack when you get there is as bad as it gets. I had a stretch where I lived in a different place from 18-28. Every year had to pack my dorm or college house or apartment up and go to the next spot. It sucks. Think he's just gotta go back to St. John's now. Finish the career off where it started.