Duke Free Agency

[johnb]

Well, it looks like one of our best baseball players (Chris Marconcini) is transferring to play at Florida State. Since he's graduating, he apparently can play for them next year. I'd thought such a thing worked between sports but not within the same sport, but I probably just misremembered. Oddly, the article doesn't mention which graduate program was especially appealing at FSU but unavailable at Duke.
http://duke.247sports.com/Bolt/FSU-Baseball-adds-Duke-transfer-29322178

This is a bit different from Chris Hipps' transfer to play football at SMU after finishing up his lacrosse eligibility at Duke.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000353949/article/duke-lacrosse-player-hipps-transferring-to-play-football-at-smu

It's also different from the decision of Wu Liu (ACC ROY in women's golf) to join Jabari Parker as a one-and-done.
http://www.thetimesnews.com/sports/acc-sports/women-s-golfer-at-duke-turning-pro-1.328625

[CDu]

Well, it looks like one of our best baseball players (Chris Marconcini) is transferring to play at Florida State. Since he's graduating, he apparently can play for them next year. I'd thought such a thing worked between sports but not within the same sport, but I probably just misremembered. Oddly, the article doesn't mention which graduate program was especially appealing at FSU but unavailable at Duke.
http://duke.247sports.com/Bolt/FSU-Baseball-adds-Duke-transfer-29322178

This is a bit different from Chris Hipps' transfer to play football at SMU after finishing up his lacrosse eligibility at Duke.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000353949/article/duke-lacrosse-player-hipps-transferring-to-play-football-at-smu

It's also different from the decision of Wu Liu (ACC ROY in women's golf) to join Jabari Parker as a one-and-done.
http://www.thetimesnews.com/sports/acc-sports/women-s-golfer-at-duke-turning-pro-1.328625

Re: Marconcini. He missed his 2012 season. As such, he had only used 3 years of eligibility. So this works the same way that basketball does: he is a grad transfer with one year of eligibility left.

You're thinking of the Greg Paulus example, where he exhausted all four years of basketball eligibility and then transferred to Syracuse to play a year of football. That's a different scenario because Paulus had already used all 4 years of basketball eligibility. If I'm not mistaken, Paulus could have played for Duke football had he wanted to do so, but apparently didn't have the opportunity for playing time.

[Bob Green]

Paulus could have played for Duke football had he wanted to do so, but apparently didn't have the opportunity for playing time.

He was too short. ;)

[Turk]

Re: Marconcini. He missed his 2012 season. As such, he had only used 3 years of eligibility. So this works the same way that basketball does: he is a grad transfer with one year of eligibility left.



With a year of eligibility left, he could have had the option to remain at Duke as a grad student as well. I didn't follow the baseball team so I won't guess the motivation for the transfer, but I suppose you could just round up the usual suspects.

[CDu]

With a year of eligibility left, he could have had the option to remain at Duke as a grad student as well. I didn't follow the baseball team so I won't guess the motivation for the transfer, but I suppose you could just round up the usual suspects.

Well, off the top of my head, the most logical explanation would be the opportunity to play for a team legitimately capable of making the College World Series.

[budwom]

maybe he just likes crab legs