Recruiting: Regular Signing Period window: 2021-04-14 thru 05-19

Two Wednesday’s from now is called “National Signing Day” (actually just the first day of a five week window for high school recruits to sign) and we will get a better look at next season’s roster as high school players sign their National Letters of Intent.

For KANSAS Zach Clemence and KJ Adams signed their NLIs during the early signing period in November. Of the remaining current three commitments, only Bobby Pettiford will be signing. But KANSAS still has at least one more scholarship to offer with Enaruna, Muscadin and Grant-Foster transferring.

PF 35/**** Zach Clemence 6-10/205 signed November 2020
F 85/**** KJ Adams 6-6/220 signed November 2020
PG 115/*** Bobby Pettiford 6-0/170 HS
F --/*** Sydney Curry 6-9/265 JUCO transfer
F --/*** Cam Martin 6-9/240 Transfer

The wild cards this year of course are the high number of people in the transfer portal because of the “get out of sitting out a year” card and the super senior seasons available for this year’s graduating class. Those transfer players won’t be obligated to their new schools until they are actually enrolled in their new school. In the meantime some potential super seniors have yet to inform their current schools if they will stay or they will indeed go. Marcus Garrett is our most salient example, having said he would not decide for sure until the NCAAT was over.

Making things really interesting this year is the existence at this late date of 7 UNDECIDED high school players in Rivals top 30. Clearly a lot of top recruits— almost 1/4 of the top 30 — are waiting to see who they might end up playing with and also who they end up playing for as coaches change jobs left and right in March and April.

As we track events the next few weeks, remember that Super Senior eligibility has two parts.
1. The player gets an extra year to play regardless of where the player ends up.

2. As long as the player stays with the current school, that scholarship will not count against that program’s 13 scholarship annual limit, and schools needing help funding those extra rides can get assistance from the NCAA. Players that choose to transfer will count against their new school’s annual scholarship limit.

And news of Self getting his contract extended (current contract ended next year) has to help with recruiting for however many openings KANSAS has left.

Fingers crossed...