2025 Transfer Portal Watch

[bga1]

I'm a fan. Go get him.

43% 3 pt shooter- 83% Ft shooter

Yes please!

 

[bga1]

Instate recruiting has been bad ever since Minnesota started producing multiple high major players. Not a secret. Will be even harder now that there will be fewer opportunities for younger players.

Actually it may well improve. We have a better coach and with less high D1 opportunities they may stay home more.

 

[Holy Man]

Actually it may well improve. We have a better coach and with less high D1 opportunities they may stay home more.

True. Hopefully they stick around as well.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Soft...if Izzo couldn't toughen him up, he's in for an eye opening. Just wants to sit on the perimeter and shoot threes.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Instate recruiting has been bad ever since Minnesota started producing multiple high major players. Not a secret. Will be even harder now that there will be fewer opportunities for younger players.

Bell and ElAmin. Neither will work in this town again!

 

[ShushPush]

Instate recruiting has been bad ever since Minnesota started producing multiple high major players. Not a secret. Will be even harder now that there will be fewer opportunities for younger players.

Which is why I am personally grateful for St. Thomas becoming a second destination for DI talent. Minnesota can afford this second DI school.

 

[Bad Gopher]

Some buzz of Heide getting more than we were willing to pay.

Here come the swarm of "Obviously Niko didn't want Heide" posts.

It was bound to happen on one of these fronts. The Gophers have some money, but if a rich program is willing to overpay...it's not much different than the free agent market in the pros. No team ends up with their entire wish list. If his folks still lived here, that would be one thing, but I think they live south now; do I remember that right?

 

[bga1]

Some buzz of Heide getting more than we were willing to pay.

He’s not a player we should be breaking the bank for.

 

[Bad Gopher]

He’s not a player we should be breaking the bank for.

Yeah, he would've looked good in a Gopher uni, but less than 5 ppg: it's far from a sure thing he'll reach his potential.

 

[topos]

Yeah, he would've looked good in a Gopher uni, but less than 5 ppg: it's far from a sure thing he'll reach his potential.

Especially when our first two gets are 6’8ish 3/4s.

 

[Married@SiebertField]

Bell and ElAmin. Neither will work in this town again!

Clem was candid about missing out on Troy Bell but he was the exception to the rule from
1986-1999. Clem started “plus 1” in the Minnesota recruiting category having brought Brett McNeal to Western Kentucky. With a free transfer rule McNeal wouid have been hugely helpful to the 1986-1987 backcourt with Gaffney & Zurcher and the 1987-1988 backcourt with first years Newbern & Lynch (along w/ Gaffney). (In my world in which Gopher basketball players with underappreciated-but-distinguished-careers are periodically honored at halftime, Ray Gaffney would be at the top of the list. IIRC, he was the only senior on the 1988-1989 squad. His senior night was a mid-week game against Michigan State before a modest crowd of 12,000 or so but Williams Arena roared for him that evening and Clem had tears in his eyes.)

 

[leib0039]

Michigan going to be a problem again next year

 

[Bad Gopher]