INGLESBY TALKS ABOUT NEGATIVE SIDE OF PAYMENTS TO PLAYERS

[72 Hen]

Encourage everyone to read the entire article. Below are a few highlights.

Tenth-year Blue Hens coach Martin Ingelsby has expressed some frustration this season, without offering details, over the unwillingness of some to perhaps return sooner rather than later, if at all, from their injuries.

“It's just this new age of college athletics,” he said after the Liberty game, “guys dealing with some injuries and timing of injuries, and what the return-to-play stuff looks like.”

Unlike several years ago, that now involves players getting paid, whether they’re playing or not, and makes one wonder if sitting out a whole season and returning for the next is more financially beneficial.

“We're trying to work through and manage,” Ingelsby said. “Every situation is different.

“It's a return-to-play process. There's how the kid's feeling, how he's progressing, and then you get to a point where it's making a decision.”

That’s just one more modern-day challenge at a time when rosters, especially for mid-major programs such as Delaware, must be almost completely rebuilt each year because of the popularity of the transfer portal and the lure of more lucrative opportunities.

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https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sp ... 380810007/

[WingT]

There is likely a lot of truth in what he is saying. It is also likely it is true for almost all coaches. He just happens to win less.

[72 Hen]

There is likely a lot of truth in what he is saying. It is also likely it is true for almost all coaches. He just happens to win less.

Basketball has a smaller roster size than others sports. When you have a few players sit out it makes a huge difference. If these guys that sit out to save their eligibility go somewhere else for more money next year it will be very telling. This season UD has 4 starters that are forced to play almost the entire game. That effects the way we are forced to play and has cost us several close games because guys are gassed at the end of regulation.

[WingT]

There is likely a lot of truth in what he is saying. It is also likely it is true for almost all coaches. He just happens to win less.

Basketball has a smaller roster size than others sports. When you have a few players sit out it makes a huge difference. If these guys that sit out to save their eligibility go somewhere else for more money next year it will be very telling. This season UD has 4 starters that are forced to play almost the entire game. That effects the way we are forced to play and has cost us several close games because guys are gassed at the end of regulation.

All fair points. I think MI is a good man. I think this program desperately needs a change and the body of work overall has been less than satisfactory.

[FanSinceHighSchool]

Except for two coaches over the past 60 years, basketball at Delaware has been very lacking.