A few years ago when the NCAA started letting transfers play without sitting out, Tony Bennett polled his former stars who made it in the NBA.
Bennett prided himself on developing players, but it was a process and some guys “had to fight for it.” Some redshirted. Most had to wait their turn, in some capacity.
If you could transfer without sitting out when you were at Virginia, Bennett asked them, would you have stuck it out?
“It’s funny,” Bennett told me two years ago, as the portal began to change recruiting and college basketball.