Tag Archives: Matt Haarms

College Basketball transfers short-circuit a wonderful lesson about sports and life
May 26, 2020

The question of allowing graduate  transfers to compete without loss of eligibility is very complicated because transferring is rarely beneficial for a student-athlete or his sport. Our childhoods are about dreams – what we aspire to be.  Adolescence teaches us what we cannot become and how we need to adjust our sites toward what we […]

Matt Haarms transferring from Purdue won’t hurt the program or player
April 7, 2020

Matt Haarms is moving on. Haarms became famous more for his hair and celebrations than his productivity during his three seasons playing for Purdue, and fans will probably miss those two meaningless attributes. Purdue announced yesterday that Haarms has entered the transfer portal as a grad eligible player and so the hair, celebrations, and 7’3″ […]