For the Badgers and for Ryan, Uthoff?s departure means a waste of a year of scholarship and training that could have gone to a player with a stronger commitment to play for Wisconsin. And that?s no small thing. Uthoff was a waste of time and money. If the NCAA wants to get serious about avoiding these transfer dustups, it needs to look harder at mandatory four-year scholarship commitments from schools and players ? with only hardship transfers ? and stipends to cover extraneous costs for student athletes. Maybe the sports talking heads can lobby for that. Ryan, meanwhile, is moving on. He says he?s got a scholarship open and he?s doing some recruiting.
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