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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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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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