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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tennessee Tech is picked to finish second in its division of the Ohio Valley Conference, and coach Steve Payne is hopeful that a fifth-year transfer from Tulane will help put the Golden Eagles over the top.He still hates the fifth-year transfer rule.As a coach, it puts you in a tough situation, he said. We want to promote academic progress or promote guys to be successful in school and when you do that, sometimes people are recruiting them behind your back.There are roughly 800 players in Division I basketball who will have transferred when the season begins next week. Many of them took advantage of NCAA rules that allow them to play immediately at another school if they have graduated from their previous institution, rather than redshirting under normal transfer rules.The rule is designed to reward athletes who have earned their degree and desire to pursue a graduate degree elsewhere. But it has instead become a loophole that allows athletes to go somewhere else for a number of different reasons, from playing time to the chance to play for a more prestigious school.That has become a source of consternation for coaches at all levels, but particularly those at low- and mid-majors, who rely on developing players over time -- only to see them leave as seniors.Its somewhere worse than a bad thing, Belmont coach Rick Byrd said. Its creating a situation where youve got schools recruiting from other schools. Youve got majors recruiting from mid-majors, literally. Youve got kids thinking about whether theyre going to stay with your program or go somewhere else when their senior year is over. Its like theyre a senior in high school again.The results can be crippling. Schools with NCAA Tournament aspirations can be reduced to league bottom-dwellers and their coaches from being hot commodities to being on the hot seat.Its a double-edged sword, Tennessee State coach Dana Ford said. We almost lost our best player (Tahjere McCall) this year to the rule, but fortunately he decided to stay. But then again, last years best player (Keron DeShields) was a fifth-year senior. Pick and choose, right?No one ever reached out for an official communication or contact (with McCall), but Im sure someone was calling somebody, Ford said. If not, they were not doing their job at their level, right?In interviews with numerous coaches and administrators, that appeared to be the biggest flaw in the rule: Schools are reduced to surreptitiously recruiting players off other campuses.There is too much money at stake. Wins are too valuable.If plucking away someone who can put a team over the top, then it makes sense to do it.One hundred percent of all coaches would say thats a very, very bad rule, said Kansas coach Bill Self, who has benefited from it in the past. Recruiting off somebody elses campus, that per se is not legal, but through third parties or whatnot, obviously there can be contact.Its hard to fault the player, either. Why would they want to play for a nondescript school in front of a thousand fans without any chance of success when they could be playing for a powerhouse on national TV, perhaps even win a national title and gain the exposure necessary to play in the NBA?The easy solution would be to repeal the rule, forcing fifth-year transfers to sit out like any other transfer. But the NCAA has so far refused to act, leaving coaches and administrators in a difficult situation.I dont really blame those guys if the rule is in effect, Austin Peay coach Dave Loos said. 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The Hurricanes big men came to the rescue in a 37-27 win over the Blues in Wellington which keeps them in the hunt for Super Rugbys top qualifying spot.All four of the home sides tries went to tight forwards, including a second-half double to lock Vaea Fifita as they ended any realistic play-offs hopes the Blues may have harboured.Leading by 10 points early in the second half, the Blues fell away to suffer their sixth loss of the season, leaving them needing a miracle over the last two rounds to snaffle a play-off wildcard.The Hurricanes are almost guaranteed of play-off rugby after notching a ninth win but they will have top spot on their mind.They are two points behind the competition-leading Chiefs and one shy of the second-placed Crusaders.Last years top qualifiers emerged victorious in a game brimming with clean line breaks, with disgruntled coach Chris Boyd comparing it to a game of touch rugby at halftime as they trailed 24-17.They were more controlled in the second spell and, with five-eighth Beauden Barrett slotting seven-from-seven shots in a 17-point haul, they held on for a fourth successive defeat of their northern rivalls.ddddddddddddThe win may have come at a heavy cost, with one-Test Hurricanes prop Jeff Toomaga-Allen forced off early with a suspected broken forearm, which would end his season.After an early exchange of penalties, the game exploded to life with five tries in the space of 13 minutes.They came in alternate order, with Blues loose forwards Jerome Kaino (two) and Kara Pryor crossing, along with Hurricanes front-rowers Reggie Goodes and Dane Coles.The game settled into a scoreless 20 minutes, broken by a penalty to inside centre Piers Francis to put the Blues 27-17 ahead before Barrett slotted successive three-pointers.Fifita powered onto a delicate short pass from halfback TJ Perenara to bag his maiden Super Rugby try and put the Hurricanes ahead for the first time.The athletic lock doubled that tally near the end as his team took advantage of a fading Blues defensive line.It was possibly the last home game of the year for the Hurricanes, who complete the regular season away to the Waratahs and Crusaders. 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