Some call it a problem. To Brad Brownell, the college basketball transfer market is an opportunity.

ESPN basketball insider Jeff Goodman compiled a list of some 700 players who transferred last offseason. The 2015 transfer sheet is also rather lengthy.

On the surface, it looks bad when so many players are looking to jump from one ship to another. In some ways, it probably is.

But Brownell has taken a different approach. He knows that kids want minutes.

“They’ve been primary players, been the leading scorers and now you know by your junior year if you’re going to be the starter or what not,” Brownell said. “If you’re not, is that what you want to do?

“The amount of time that kids are putting into this sport now with staying over the summer, all the lifting — I don’t begrudge kids at all for wanting to go somewhere else where they have more opportunity to play. These kids in college now — it’s almost 365 days a year. It probably borders on 330 days with workouts and all that. So I get it.

“Because of that, it’s always going to be out there with other schools. We’re going to have opportunities to pick up kids that way, so sometimes the best thing to do is hold on to a scholarship.”

Not counting [autotag]Legend Robertin[/autotag], who played at the junior college level, Clemson has three transfers on its current roster: [autotag]Avry Holmes[/autotag] (San Francisco), [autotag]Shelton Mitchell[/autotag] (Vanderbilt) and [autotag]Marcquise Reed[/autotag] (Robert Morris).

Holmes, a junior, had to sit out all of last year. Mitchell and Reed will have three to play, starting in 2016.

Depending on the availability of the final two scholarships for the 2016 signing class, they could be joined by another transfer or two next summer.

“I think it’s just something you have to do. To be honest with you, sometimes the transfer situation — things just kind of work itself out,” Brownell said.

Case in point: Clemson offered Mitchell in the summer after his sophomore season at Cuthbertson High School in Waxhaw, N.C. Mitchell first signed with Wake Forest, but was granted a release from his NLI when a change was made at head coach, which opened the door for Vanderbilt.

Clemson quickly pounced once Mitchell chose to leave Nashville. The Tigers’ second courtship ended almost as quickly as it began.

“Marcquise, we had to recruit, but it helped that he’d already played here and kind of seen this a little bit,” Brownell said. “Grew up in ACC country as a kid and wanted to play at the highest level.”

The street runs twith ways.

Clemson has seen its share of transfers since Brownell was handed in the program in 2010. Two holdovers from the previous regime left under his watch: Donte Hill (Old Dominion) and Noel Johnson (Auburn). Several of Brownell’s signees have left for greener pastures: T.J. Sapp (Murray State), Bernard Sullivan (Charlotte), Devin Coleman (Temple) and Ibrahim Djambo (Hofstra).

Brownell used to “feel bad” when he lost a player that way.

“I’ve kind of gotten to the point now where I don’t feel that way anymore, because I know why these guys are leaving,” he said. “Five or six years ago — I don’t know how many years ago — we couldn’t work them out in the summers. Now, we can work them out in the summers, we’re asking them to do so much more. I just don’t think you should fault a kid for wanting to play more.”

For the transfer trio at Clemson, the expectations are high.

Holmes was named to the WCC All-Freshman team and led the league in 3-point shooting percentage (47 percent). As a sophomore, he was voted to the All-WCC honorable mention team and led USF with 12.5 points per game.

Reed was the NEC Rookie of the Year and averaged 15.1 points per game for Robert Morris, which lost to Duke in the Round of 64 earlier this spring in the NCAA Tournament.

Mitchell averaged 4.3 points and 3.3 assists in 31 games for Vanderbilt last season.

“Avry Holmes is probably going to be our stating point guard. He’s a guy that had two years of mid-major college experience and played well. He gets to learn our system for a year, gets used to us, gets used to guys at this level, and now he’s ready to go,” Brownell said. “We’re hopeful that guys like Shelton and Marcquise will be guys that get used to us, our system and be guys that can really help our team next year.

“You’re hopeful that those guys are more productive. You’re able to analyze them in college play, so you kind of know a little more of what you’re getting, but it’s still very competitive in the transfer market to get guys.”