Transfer Portal 2025 thread

I feel bad for Zach. He's been a loyal soldier, biding his time, waiting for his chance. All the while everything I've heard is that he works hard and is a good teammate. Sadly he coincided with the HD era, which obvously limited his opportunities. In an ideal world, I'd love to see him develop enough to get some decent PT on next year's squad, but who know whether that's possible especially with Budinga's upside.

Hope Zach figures it out and has success. The guy certainly put in the time.

Add Flory:blink:
He will be a quick grab.
They had better find a way to keep him

There are other teams out there that know his future worth so I hope the powers that be in Lawrence don't screw this one up.

Before NIL I never missed a game, I think I watched 3 games this year. CBB is dead.

"So much to dislike about CBB today…"

WORD!!!

Applies to college football as well.

This is the article from the Journal World about it.

archive.ph/K1JeD#


Oh boy....

Griffen supposedly in the portal now too. Dang. Hate this new reality.

The basketball community learned the hard way that all star teams that don't play together aren't very good that year that Team USA's "dream team" lost in the Olympics. But here we go with college basketball: KU will likley have 5 starters who have never played before, so it will be up to the staff to try and get them to play like a unit in very short time. Meanwhile, in the good old days, you'd have a mix of experience upperclassmen who knew the system and played well together, and you were only forced to integrate a couple of freshmen into the mix. Continuity was a good thing. That's apparently over. If anything it'll help smaller schools who can't afford to go star shopping.

Wondering if it's ever going to be possible to lock a kid in with an NIL deal. Like, "here's your million/year contract, but a.) you have to hit certain benchmarks, and b.) we own your rights for 3 consecutive years." My guess is that the answer is "no" because all a kid (cough cough pro athelete) has to do is claim that he wants to transfer to another school for acedemic reasons that aren't being fulfilled at the current place. Since the kid is a "student" and "really interested in persuing a major in art appreciation" he theoretically shouldn't be barred from transferring to an institution that excels in that particular field...like Kentucky, or maybe Duke.

Sigh. Just waiting to see Self's name pop up in the portal now.

Add Coit to the list

www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/historic-...307c22a37680&ei=128z

Indiana has lost their E N T I R E team to the portal. All, 100%, every single one of their scholarship players have entered the portal. This can't continue.

Correction: Griffen hasn't announced yet, it was Passmore.

But given what's going on, I wouldn't be surprised.

Update: Griffen has in fact jumped into the portal.

At this point, the shorter list would be who HASN'T jumped.

It's dumb...it really is. Gone are the days I used to have a freshman become my favorite and grow into an amazing player and young man. Like Devonte, or Frank Mason, or Russ Rob, Thomas Robinson, the list goes on and on. This is absolutely ridiculous. The sport, as of this moment, is ruined. I had to have a roster out this year just to know who was on the floor.

So very true replay . . . so very very true


RC

NIL has become the free agency of College Basketball. It is no longer a student-athlete sport where they would play for the name on the front of the jersey. I felt when NIL came in that success would came with the highest bidder and that the power schools would yield the power of the purse. As a result, I too have watched very little college basketball including march madness because it is becoming not much more than the NBA development league. I used to be a college sport junky.

Add in the movement to make student-athletes employees of the University and some trying to unionize makes it all less appealing. Although, the previous situation where the student-athlete was restricted from getting any type of additional financial "income" wasn't fair either..

More and more, I find myself rooting for the smaller schools from afar in the tournament because of this.

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Hoping you can open this as it's a breath of fresh air. Walk on, Dillon Wilhite announcing that he's "Declaring for the corporate draft". Essentially, he'll be graduating next year and will be looking for a job. Very funny and a little proof that there are still guys out there that are actual student athletes who are living out a hoop dream knowing that they're headed for a regular job after they graduate. Kudos to Dillon.