Trentyn Flowers and the pluses of paternalism

College basketball is still the best place in the world to develop a promising talent

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Not all that long ago, coaches could tell transfers where they weren’t allowed to go.

As recently as 2012, which was probably the last time a coach tried to publicly win this sort of public relations battle, Bo Ryan told Jarrod Uthoff he was not allowed to transfer to Iowa. Like tying an onion to your belt, this was the…