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Post by efg72 on Mar 14, 2020 16:41:26 GMT -5
Syracuse has 4 guards enter the portal in the last 20 hours
jack Forrest a 6’5 SG from Columbia also entered
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Post by notjuanjones on Mar 21, 2020 10:51:51 GMT -5
A surprise, to me at least: Kahliel Spear transferring from Bucknell. Thought he had a really good sophomore season and was poised to be a big part of things for them going forward.
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Post by HC92 on Mar 21, 2020 11:03:04 GMT -5
A surprise, to me at least: Kahliel Spear transferring from Bucknell. Thought he had a really good sophomore season and was poised to be a big part of things for them going forward. I know this news just breaks your heart, njj. 😊 |
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Post by trimster on Mar 21, 2020 11:29:29 GMT -5
Syracuse has 4 guards enter the portal in the last 20 hours jack Forrest a 6’5 SG from Columbia also entered A tidbit from the Fairfield board. Of the almost 800 transfers of hoop players last year, only 11 went D2 to D1 and almost 180 went from 1 to 2. |
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2020 11:57:31 GMT -5
A surprise, to me at least: Kahliel Spear transferring from Bucknell. Thought he had a really good sophomore season and was poised to be a big part of things for them going forward. You must have seen one of his few good games. While he is athletic and can really jump, he has few strengths and a lot of weaknesses. Can't shoot from more than two feet from the basket, can't dribble with his left hand, can't stay in front of anyone on defense, and a 35% FT shooter. He got some PT (14 mpg) as an undersized (6-7) center this year because Bucknell didn't have a center, but his PT next year might have been less with a true center coming in and also the possibility of their two freshman PF's developing. |
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Post by Ray on Mar 21, 2020 12:09:09 GMT -5
A surprise, to me at least: Kahliel Spear transferring from Bucknell. Thought he had a really good sophomore season and was poised to be a big part of things for them going forward. You must have seen one of his few good games. While he is athletic and can really jump, he has few strengths and a lot of weaknesses. Can't shoot from more than two feet from the basket, can't dribble with his left hand, can't stay in front of anyone on defense, and a 35% FT shooter. Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?  |
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Post by cmo on Mar 21, 2020 12:15:10 GMT -5
A surprise, to me at least: Kahliel Spear transferring from Bucknell. Thought he had a really good sophomore season and was poised to be a big part of things for them going forward. You must have seen one of his few good games. While he is athletic and can really jump, he has few strengths and a lot of weaknesses. Can't shoot from more than two feet from the basket, can't dribble with his left hand, can't stay in front of anyone on defense, and a 35% FT shooter. He got some PT (14 mpg) as an undersized (6-7) center this year because Bucknell didn't have a center, but his PT next year might have been less with a true center coming in and also the possibility of their two freshman PF's developing. the Red Sox should hire you. “Praise on way in, bash on way out.” |
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Post by hchoops on Mar 21, 2020 12:33:56 GMT -5
Syracuse has 4 guards enter the portal in the last 20 hours jack Forrest a 6’5 SG from Columbia also entered A tidbit from the Fairfield board. Of the almost 800 transfers of hoop players last year, only 11 went D2 to D1 and almost 180 went from 1 to 2. Maybe more from D3 to D1 ? |
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2020 13:15:28 GMT -5
You must have seen one of his few good games. While he is athletic and can really jump, he has few strengths and a lot of weaknesses. Can't shoot from more than two feet from the basket, can't dribble with his left hand, can't stay in front of anyone on defense, and a 35% FT shooter. He got some PT (14 mpg) as an undersized (6-7) center this year because Bucknell didn't have a center, but his PT next year might have been less with a true center coming in and also the possibility of their two freshman PF's developing. the Red Sox should hire you. “Praise on way in, bash on way out.” Nope. I was honest on the way in and on the way out. He was a very late signee, probably out of desperation, with a limited skill set. |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 21, 2020 13:34:12 GMT -5
A tidbit from the Fairfield board. Of the almost 800 transfers of hoop players last year, only 11 went D2 to D1 and almost 180 went from 1 to 2. Maybe more from D3 to D1 ? That's a huge jump, isn't it? Even though there are a lot of D-3 colleges, I wouldn't think a lot of players would go D-3 to D-1. |
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2020 13:35:24 GMT -5
Maybe more from D3 to D1 ? That's a huge jump, isn't it? Even though there are a lot of D-3 colleges, I wouldn't think a lot of players would go D-3 to D-1. Yes, very few. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 21, 2020 13:44:05 GMT -5
While they may not transfer because they’re already at top flight academic schools, I think that the ten best players in the NESCAC could play Division 1 basketball if they really wanted to.
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Post by joe on Mar 21, 2020 14:01:04 GMT -5
While they may not transfer because they’re already at top flight academic schools, I think that the ten best players in the NESCAC could play Division 1 basketball if they really wanted to. Perhaps for non-PL schools. I’ll bet more players than 10 could play in the PL or similar bottom tier league. |
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Post by timholycross on Mar 21, 2020 14:23:32 GMT -5
While they may not transfer because they’re already at top flight academic schools, I think that the ten best players in the NESCAC could play Division 1 basketball if they really wanted to. Austin Hutcherson, Wesleyan, entered Illinois with Granderson. Apologies if mentioned already. |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 21, 2020 15:10:52 GMT -5
While they may not transfer because they’re already at top flight academic schools, I think that the ten best players in the NESCAC could play Division 1 basketball if they really wanted to. Perhaps for non-PL schools. I’ll bet more players than 10 could play in the PL or similar bottom tier league. The PL ranks #23 or #24 among 32 D-1 conferences |
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 21, 2020 17:58:33 GMT -5
the Red Sox should hire you. “Praise on way in, bash on way out.” Nope. I was honest on the way in and on the way out. He was a very late signee, probably out of desperation, with a limited skill set. I thought only Carmody had desperate late signings of non D-1 caliber players. Does Bucknell have to pay Carm a royalty? |
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2020 18:24:33 GMT -5
Nope. I was honest on the way in and on the way out. He was a very late signee, probably out of desperation, with a limited skill set. I thought only Carmody had desperate late signings of non D-1 caliber players. Does Bucknell have to pay Carm a royalty? Just to clarify, I don’t think he was a “non-D1 caliber player”. But at the time he committed - which was April 2018 near the end of his senior year in high school - I was not happy because I would’ve preferred to hold onto the scholarship for a Transfer or else to seek out a better player the next fall. He is an OK player to be a team’s fourth or fifth option off the bench for the next two years, so I guess that makes him a D1 player. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 21, 2020 20:15:33 GMT -5
I thought only Carmody had desperate late signings of non D-1 caliber players. Does Bucknell have to pay Carm a royalty? Just to clarify, I don’t think he was a “non-D1 caliber player”. But at the time he committed - which was April 2018 near the end of his senior year in high school - I was not happy because I would’ve preferred to hold onto the scholarship for a Transfer or else to seek out a better player the next fall. He is an OK player to be a team’s fourth or fifth option off the bench for the next two years, so I guess that makes him a D1 player. Sounds like the first big off the bench for HC. |
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Post by HC92 on Mar 21, 2020 22:19:42 GMT -5
Harvard’s Seth Towns headed to The Ohio State University.
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Post by trimster on Mar 22, 2020 14:50:03 GMT -5
Syracuse has 4 guards enter the portal in the last 20 hours jack Forrest a 6’5 SG from Columbia also entered I wonder how many 18 and 19 year old kids are playing “recruiting roulette” right now. These would be kids with D1 basketball scholarship offers sitting on the table right now who see all of the transfer activity in the portal and delay making a commitment with the hopes the local college or university or a higher level of the aforementioned academic institution will come knocking on the door when a scholarship unexpectedly becomes available. Seems like this could keep the transfer portal humming a year from now when kids end up at a college or university that wasn’t near the top of their list. Of course it can be a two way street. Coaches my grow tired awaiting a recruit’s decision and see that Jimmy Jones from the portal wants to come to their school for the last 2 or 3 years of their eligibility and a scholarship comes off the table for a high school/prep school student-athlete. With full-scale free agency on the horizon, this type of situation will only become more pervasive. |
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Post by notjuanjones on Mar 23, 2020 13:30:34 GMT -5
G Chuck Champion transferring from Loyola. Grad transfer with a year left after missing all but nine games due to injury (shoulder, IIRC).
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Post by DiMarz on Mar 23, 2020 15:21:36 GMT -5
If we are going to take a transfer, it would be ideal to get a kid with 3 years of eligibility left..But that is very limiting...so if we get a kid with 2 years left, he better be an impact player....As far as admissions goes, if TPTB want to gain national exposure, they will have to help out teams...Right now HC losses kids to the Ivy's and other top academic schools...Seems like the HC teams are playing with one hand....
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Post by bison137 on Mar 23, 2020 15:26:13 GMT -5
.Seems like the HC teams are playing with one hand.... That’s exactly what people at Lafayette, Colgate, and Buchnell say. |
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Post by sarasota on Mar 23, 2020 17:33:51 GMT -5
.Seems like the HC teams are playing with one hand.... That’s exactly what people at Lafayette, Colgate, and Buchnell say. Right. Except we are LOSING to those teams. |
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Post by HC92 on Mar 23, 2020 17:37:52 GMT -5
If we are going to take a transfer, it would be ideal to get a kid with 3 years of eligibility left..But that is very limiting...so if we get a kid with 2 years left, he better be an impact player....As far as admissions goes, if TPTB want to gain national exposure, they will have to help out teams...Right now HC losses kids to the Ivy's and other top academic schools...Seems like the HC teams are playing with one hand.... Tough to add more bodies to the incoming freshman class which currently stands at four with additional offers still on the table. |
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