Toledo offered Leroy Blyden more money than their coach makes — but Kansas ruined the Cinderella story with transfer win
This is just how it goes in modern college basketball.
Toledo offered Leroy Blyden more money than their coach makes — but Kansas ruined the Cinderella story with transfer win originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Toledo Rockets never stood a chance.
Leroy Blyden, the freshman phenom guard, said after Toledo's season ended that he planned to come back. But then the transfer portal beckoned, and now, he's heading to Kansas for next season. In a new column by the Toledo Blade's tremendous David Briggs , he broke down how this happened.
And it comes down to the money. Toledo worked up its offer to Blyden to $700,000 for next season, which is more than it pays its head coach, Briggs writes. But Kansas ended up offering three times that amount, and that was that.
The premise of Briggs' column is that this marks the "death of Cinderella," and as moves like this continue to happen, it sure does start to feel that way. Blyden won't stick at Toledo and chase a MAC title or conference player of the year honors. Instead, he's heading to a blue blood.