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Post by trimster on May 2, 2024 6:28:12 GMT -5
According to Bart Torvik, 31 of the top 40 scorers at the mid-major level, have entered the portal as of 4-30.
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Post by trimster on May 2, 2024 6:03:30 GMT -5
Portal exceeds 2000 at 2007. I know that includes a good number of grad transfers thanks to Covid and walk-on as well, but that is more than 5 per D1 squad. Harvard’s second leading scorer, a 6’8” sophomore, is in the portal. Their leading scorer and IL ROY, has already transferred to Georgetown. A third underclassman Johnnie, is also in the portal. That is unheard of until now.
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Post by trimster on May 1, 2024 15:07:39 GMT -5
The Last Amateurs. Wow, it's like ancient history now. I actually knew that, but as we're talking about college kids who think 800K is too low an offer to stay at school, I just wanted to reinforce the idea that these kids are supposed to be amateurs. As much as I like see HC do well in hoops, I am glad HC isn't swimming in those waters. This stuff really has no business being part of the college scene.
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Post by trimster on May 1, 2024 7:05:09 GMT -5
It wouldn’t bother me if they went into next year with 12 scholarship players so they have two scholarships to work with this summer in their recruiting for the class of ‘29. BTW, next year begins in a month with the beginning of summer session.
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Post by trimster on Apr 30, 2024 18:03:58 GMT -5
Hopefully, this works.
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Post by trimster on Apr 30, 2024 17:45:14 GMT -5
1950 portalers. Not sure if the deadline is midnight tonight or 24 hrs later. Crazy number.
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Post by trimster on Apr 30, 2024 9:43:35 GMT -5
Loos like Gabe Warren and another kid HC offered last year, McGlothin, were teammates for a year or two at John Paul ll in Plano. McGlothin is headed to Richmond in the fall. From what I have read, JP ll has been one heck of a team in recent years.
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Post by trimster on Apr 30, 2024 6:51:17 GMT -5
Just read that a really solid program like Dayton has had 5 players enter the portal this Spring and has had 19 go portaling that their coach Anthony Grant has recruited in the last 6 years.
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Post by trimster on Apr 29, 2024 20:20:53 GMT -5
Committed to HC from Rice. 3 years. Another Texan.
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Post by trimster on Apr 29, 2024 18:03:09 GMT -5
Portal hits 1900. Now at 1907.
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Post by trimster on Apr 29, 2024 12:36:00 GMT -5
Ouch! It's almost like you don't want any of your young players to be too good. I was going to add if you are a low major program but that applies to mid majors as well.
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Post by trimster on Apr 26, 2024 14:36:24 GMT -5
It will always be the Providence Civic Centahhh to me Good news....a game that should be played nearly annually imo A reminder of an era bygone. The Patriot League KILLED Holy Cross hoops. It is what it is. I'm in the acceptance stage now. Series with BC, Providence and Uconn have made way for Maine, Quinnipiac, UNH, Stonehill and Sacred Heart. And we can't even win those games. Same here. Games with PC, BC, etc, infrequent as they are, just don't mean much to me any more. In most cases, we don't have much of a chance to win and the rivalries went by the boards many years ago. I was fortunate to see the ECAC New England days in the 70's and that was truly a special albeit brief, era. I can still name many of the opposition players from those days when HC generally battled 6 other programs from NE for the coveted 4 spots in the tourney.
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Post by trimster on Apr 25, 2024 19:09:47 GMT -5
Seton Hall has 8 players in the portal.
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Post by trimster on Apr 25, 2024 8:37:10 GMT -5
So far, USC leads the portal race with 7. Louisville is close behind with 6, and an expected 7th. I assume the numbers represent commitments from the portal. Drake has 11 players in the portal. I just read a comment on the Fairfield board along the lines of, “I can our roster taking shape soon.” Kind of sad that that many schools are largely rebuilding their roster every Spring.
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Post by trimster on Apr 24, 2024 17:47:38 GMT -5
Totino-Grace Boys Basketball @tgeaglesnest Patrick Bath ( @patrick_bath21 ) is a 2X state champion who averaged 16 & 10 as a senior. Redshirted (and added 25 pounds) for Missouri Valley Champion & NCAA Tournament participant. 4 years of eligibility.
This appears to be from his hs team's Twitter page.
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Post by trimster on Apr 24, 2024 17:37:46 GMT -5
Not sure he's the inside banger that we're looking for. VC has him listed at 6'9" and 0lb. Post: #189RE: 2024 CBB Transfer Portal (Yesterday 11:19 AM)mrjoolius Wrote: twitter.com/ThePortalReport/stat...kYrmg&s=19Not sure is this link will work but he appears to be pretty sturdy looking young man. He was listed at 210 when he entered college and a poster on the Bill & Mary board said he has added 25 lbs during his redshirt year. I know it's a posting on a board but based on the picture, he looks bigger than 210.
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Post by trimster on Apr 24, 2024 8:22:01 GMT -5
HC is one of many schools to have contacted a 6’9” frosh transfer from Drake and the state of MN named Patrick Bath. According to Verbal Commits, he had 5 offers coming out of hs. There is speculation from the Drake board that he was a walk on there. He redshirted this year and has 4 years of eligibility left. Colgate, American and William and Mary have also contacted him.
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Post by trimster on Apr 23, 2024 14:59:33 GMT -5
June 7 in Ky and June 8 in Indy.
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Post by trimster on Apr 23, 2024 14:55:42 GMT -5
Max is on the Kentucky team for the annual Kentucky-Indiana series of games Games as in plural?
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Post by trimster on Apr 23, 2024 14:54:33 GMT -5
Joe Octave to Stony Brook.
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Post by trimster on Apr 23, 2024 14:54:09 GMT -5
The trend seems to be liberalization of restrictions. After a few scandals the pendulum will probably swing back. I wonder if any schools will start reducing scholarships for bench players to give more to the stars. Perhaps the 1-4 players would get scholarship and NIL, the 5-8 rotation would get scholarships only and the 9-13 players would be walk-ons with the opportunity to compete for money in future seasons as all deals would be for one season at a time. It's like Aldous Huxley thought up NIL. Apology to the great Crusaders working so hard to give Holy Cross NIL with honor. The introduction of NIL is unsettling. The status quo certainly wasn't perfect however, so maybe college athletics will end up in a better place after trial and error with the new arrangements. Or they go the other way to use NIL money to recruit more players than allowed on scholarship to have in effect, 15-16 “scholarship” cagers.
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Post by trimster on Apr 23, 2024 12:03:09 GMT -5
If the staff can't sign 1 or 2 transfers they like this Spring, (preferably with 2 years of eligibility left), I'd rather they keep the schollies for use on high school jrs they are recruiting now. As it stands now, CK is the only scholarship rising sr on the team so if they use the 2 schollies available right now to fill out the roster, they will only be able to bring in 1 recruit in Sept of 2025. One player classes aren't a good thing. I'd rather they go with an 11 member scholarship roster next year and take steps to balance the classes than use the 2 scholarships right now on kids they aren't that high on. I have similar concerns. There's no obviously interested and talented xfer that anyone I know is aware of still considering HC. It's also nearly May. I'm not aware of a late '24 that's lined up either. We could end up with more wins in PL next year but that's not factoring in other teams' potential improvements. If we marginally improve, go nowhere and lose CK to graduation we might be in a two year hole unless Hare and Declan really improve. It's hard to believe there's not an eligible xfer that can rebound, defend and occasionally follow a miss or P&Roll lay-in that we can find. If we're right about our terrific rising soph and freshmen talent someone ought to be interested. I wouldn't use the word terrific just yet to describe our current and incoming frosh classes. I think the only frosh who came even remotely close to being named to the All Rookie PL team was Joe Nugent and obviously the 4 incoming recruits have yet to play a minute of college basketball.
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Post by trimster on Apr 22, 2024 14:16:20 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. If the staff can't sign 1 or 2 transfers they like this Spring, (preferably with 2 years of eligibility left), I'd rather they keep the schollies for use on high school jrs they are recruiting now. As it stands now, CK is the only scholarship rising sr on the team so if they use the 2 schollies available right now to fill out the roster, they will only be able to bring in 1 recruit in Sept of 2025. One player classes aren't a good thing. I'd rather they go with an 11 member scholarship roster next year and take steps to balance the classes than use the 2 scholarships right now on kids they aren't that high on.
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Post by trimster on Apr 22, 2024 11:33:22 GMT -5
Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing that prevents the Williames and Amherts from NIL payments either. Furthermore, agreeing with a bunch of like-minded institutions not to would probably bring legal action, wouldn't it? My way of saying I wouldn't dismiss making changes, but not until the ground is firmer. The way it is right now, then decision to go the NIL route isn’t in the hands of the people that run Amherst, Williams or any college. I think Charlie Baker wants to change that and bring it in house.
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Post by trimster on Apr 22, 2024 11:30:01 GMT -5
Two relevant items I just came across. Undergrad portal entries end May 1. Many NIL agreements expire in 1-2 weeks. Thus it is possible that there are still many high quality transfers to come soon. One of the college hoop pundits, (Goodman, Rothstein, etc.), noted the NIL expiration thing recently.
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