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Post by trimster on Apr 22, 2024 8:03:59 GMT -5
Maybe I'll get more excited if there is news soon of a quality transfer signing, but I have to say I am having a really hard time getting pumped up when I think about what lies ahead in terms of the future of the sport. You aren’t the only one based on comments on 5-6 other boards I look at and imho, people on message boards are pretty intense fans of their favorite teams.
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Post by trimster on Apr 22, 2024 7:19:22 GMT -5
There is no way to stop the NIL arms race -it is a juggernaut that will destroy everything in its path. Even if the big-time schools break off there will be an arms race in the “FCS like” 1AA basketball division HC will inhabit. $$$ will rule, of course. I’ll guess that there is no way for a division or conference to ban or set limits on NIL payments. That would be restraint of trade, right? Buying athletes just seems to me something that doesn’t belong on a college campus and I am not naive enough to think everything else besides athletics is done in a pristine manner on college campii.
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2024 18:32:57 GMT -5
I saw an article on the URI Board, (lots of ads so I didn't copy), in which multiple Power 6 Conference coaches said the average NIL per starter is in the range of 150-200k and one SEC coach said you need at least 1.5 million to put together a roster. Another coach said rumor has it, one P6 school had 3 million to work with and the top NIL deal for a player was supposedly 1 million. College hoops is for the most part, far from amateur athletics, not that it has been for a long time at some schools. And why do we want to be competing in this landscape? I’m honestly ready for FCS college basketball. I don't see the point in trying to which is sad. If someone told me HC had to choose between going full bore into the swamp that big time athletics has become, even if boosters largely supported it and D3, I think I would choose the latter. Fortunately, there is an in-between ground to which you have alluded.
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2024 13:28:08 GMT -5
I saw an article on the URI Board, (lots of ads so I didn't copy), in which multiple Power 6 Conference coaches said the average NIL per starter is in the range of 150-200k and one SEC coach said you need at least 1.5 million to put together a roster. Another coach said rumor has it, one P6 school had 3 million to work with and the top NIL deal for a player was supposedly 1 million. College hoops is for the most part, far from amateur athletics, not that it has been for a long time at some schools.
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2024 13:04:14 GMT -5
If this madness continues, the number of players scoring 1,000 career points for one school will dwindle to a precious few.
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2024 8:54:12 GMT -5
There is now a boiler plate message almost all portalers use when entering the portal. They thank everyone but the tiny bugs on campus and then conclude with after having said that and with much heartfelt consideration, I have decided to portal. This had spun out of control a while ago ago.
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2024 8:23:57 GMT -5
Does anyone know if we have any mutually interested portal prospects currently? Beyond "schools of interest" level. In other words, have any portalers or in the case of JoJo Moore, a high school senior, made a visit to HC. If anyone has, it is a very well kept secret.
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Post by trimster on Apr 20, 2024 11:12:20 GMT -5
NC's center, Bacot, decided to stay at Carolina this year for that very reason.
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Post by trimster on Apr 20, 2024 8:05:03 GMT -5
Another Ivy undergrad hits the portal. Freshman Derek Sangster of Princeton. What is going on? Along similar lines, Duke now has 7 players in the portal and as of now, only two scholarship players returning. It’s time to stop the madness.
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Post by trimster on Apr 20, 2024 7:57:11 GMT -5
Another Ivy undergrad hits the portal. Freshman Derek Sangster of Princeton. What is going on?
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 17:29:01 GMT -5
Tell him he can play baseball too even if it means an occasional baseball workout in Jan, Feb and hopefully, March.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:56:04 GMT -5
Has he received an HC offer? Blurb didn’t mention who has reached out to him.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:54:59 GMT -5
I saw things on the Rhody board that pretty much sums up the state of men’s hoops. Arkansas alum Jerry Jones has offered to pay Kentucky recruits twice what the Wildcats were paying them and a hs senior who committed to URI, (seated in a gold gilded King’s Chair), has asked for a release from his LOI because the assistant who recruited him left URI. Someone will do a study of college hoops, post Covid, when it went totally off the rails. Oh, almost forgot, I saw something about an NCAA committee ok’ing additional transfers after your first, without sitting a year, as long as you are in good academic standing. The Day is coming when your teammate before Christmas will be your opponent after New Year’s Day. Speaking of which, don’t you have to be a student at a college or university a minimum amount of time to earn a degree from said institution. I will close with this. Ever wonder if a grad transfer student-athlete with one year of eligibility who plays a fall sport like football, ever sets foot in a class whether it be in person or online?
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:41:31 GMT -5
A kid from Brown, Kala Anya, a 6’8”, 215 lb forward, entered the portal two days ago. His hometown is Worcester Ma. Looks like he spent his first two years of hs at Doherty before transferring to IMG Academy in Florida. Listed as a sophomore. Averaged about 10 ppg, 7.5 rpg and just under 2 apg last season.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2024 16:02:15 GMT -5
Portal chugs past 1700 in D 1. Now at 1716.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2024 11:12:57 GMT -5
Deon Perry of Loyola MD commits to Fairfield and Harvard's Malik Mack,IL ROY, transfers to Georgetown.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2024 14:24:50 GMT -5
Basket by CHAMBERLAIN !! (name stretched out considerably) Walllleeee. Grrreeeer.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2024 10:02:54 GMT -5
According to Verbal Commits, Jeff Woodward has committed to …….Colgate. Looks like he isn’t transferring.
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Post by trimster on Apr 15, 2024 10:23:26 GMT -5
See the thread on tenure.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2024 19:08:06 GMT -5
Name please ?everyone will understand stats ? Tyler Perkins from Landon, MD. First-team All Met, (DC), last year. (BTW, Tyler Boston was 2nd team All Met last year). Played about 30 mpg at Penn as a frosh. Averaged 14 ppg, 5 rpg and 2 apg. 6'4" and a sturdy 205. I suspect everyone will understand why I said HC would take him in a heartbeat even though we probably have greater need for a big. I have no idea if this kid has any interest in HC. We did offer him a schollie before his senior year. Apparently, Tyler Perkins wasn’t down on Philly as he transferred to Villanova.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2024 10:28:02 GMT -5
The Lexington Herald Leader recently announced its All-State Hoops Teams and Max finished 4th in the coaches voting. Coaches were asked to rank the top ten players. Max had one more vote than a kid named Unseld.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 15:32:17 GMT -5
Check NCAA.org for “transfer portal data” . I think you can do extensive exploration there. One graph I saw for men’s basketball -where the players ended up 76% Div 1 “Aided” ( guessing this means scholarship???) 4% Div 1 unaided 17% Div 2 aided 1% Div 2 unaided 2% division 3 However I don’t know, without deeper exploration, whether the N here is All players who entered the portal or all players who found a landing spot More exploration needed It would be interesting to know how many of the portalists are walk-ons. Let me clarify, walk-ons at the school they are leaving.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 15:31:10 GMT -5
At this late date how many players do we think have no home moving forward. Check NCAA.org for “transfer portal data” . I think you can do extensive exploration there. One graph I saw for men’s basketball -where the players ended up 76% Div 1 “Aided” ( guessing this means scholarship???) 4% Div 1 unaided 17% Div 2 aided 1% Div 2 unaided 2% division 3 However I don’t know, without deeper exploration, whether the N here is All players who entered the portal or all players who found a landing spot More exploration needed It would be interesting to know how many of the portalists are walk-ons.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 13:25:08 GMT -5
Two more Sycamores enter the portal. Seven so far today.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 11:30:17 GMT -5
Portal passed 1500 this morning. Indiana State had 5 players enter so far today.
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