Entirely possible you are right, there is so much unknown in all this. A lot of the onus gets put on the players because they are the ones choosing to enter the transfer portal and move from school to school. But the schools share in the blame for the craziness as well.
The ranking of portal addns to rosters, having MN #10 is not a "thing". leib0039 is correct as it is a numbers game based more on volume of transfers than roster quality moving forward.
A far better/fun purely analytic evaluation of the current rosters is available on Torvik. Go to Funalytics/Rostercast/Minnesota and the Gopher roster currently has a numerical "power rating" of .7551. That places MN roughly at a TRank of 75th in NCAA. Using "Add Anybody" feature, you can place anyone from the portal onto MN roster and see the analytic-based change of the team. I added a rim protector like fmr MN recruit Christian Reeves (7-0, Clemson) and it raised MN up a few spots nationally. You can see the influence certain players have on the AdjOff/AdjDef by the change in the team value. MN currently has AdjO 107.6, AdjD 97.6 which projects as reasonably balanced.
As a reality check, I looked at North Carolina current roster ranked .9500 projecting them about 8th in the country. AdjO 118.5, AdjD 91.8 highly skilled on both ends.
It makes me wonder what analytics and player ratings the coaching staffs are using in the "War Room" to evaluate who they should/shouldn't contact.
As an aside, despite the transfer portal closing in a week, anybody already in the portal at that time can sign with any team in the next 3 months. There is no urgency in signing players by 4/22, the urgency is on the players to get into the portal before that date. Grad. students or special exemptions extend the 4/22 date further.
And I said I wasn't going to do this again.
Well that would certainly qualify as a big fish if ends up at Kentucky.
6'8" Guard? Sign me up.
Wonder what took so long
wondering if commits will be slower this year as players wait on 5th year decision and rev share decisions.
Wondering if programs will keep scholarships open in case they can snag these players or retain existing ones.
i'm more on the side that NIL and rev share will dominate the decision making, as long as a chair is still available (roster spot). scholarship or no scholarship. 15 spots and six still open? i might wait a bit to see how the dollars shake out
I don't really care if the players get another year or not but would love to see things get to the point where the eligibility rules make sense the way they used to in the good ole days.
Badger offer?
Every other human being in American has lived under these "new rules" since at least the Civil War. You go about it in your daily life every time you hire, fire, apply for a job, quit, land a contract, etc. Students were slowly robbed by the NCAA since their inception. Maybe we should kill the beast entirely. Death to the organization known as the NCAA.I don't really care if the players get another year or not but would love to see things get to the point where the eligibility rules make sense the way they used to in the good ole days.
huh?
I thought I just read a statement the NCAA denying football players another year that they are taking eligibility rules seriously at least in part because perpetual eligibility denies others opportunities. There is no way they can rule on all these cases individually. It will be yes or no and when it is no, the court will decide.
I bet very few teams get near fifteen scholarships ever. 12-13 scholarships and a couple of walk ons with some cash associated with it. That’s a lot of bodies. No need to have a whole roster of scholarship players.
Every other human being in the United States has the right to determine their life as opposed to these college students who have to deal with the NCAA, an organization that does not represent their needs. I'll set up an LLC tomorrow to regulate your life tomorrow in the name of fairness to all the other sports bulletin boards. You can only transfer to another board to make a post if you apply in a narrow window in May and the board has to accept you. We are doing this to keep your amateur writer status pure.
Looks good. But not really. We need a 5 in the worst way. And another potential impact player.
WI, WA and MN ahead of IND and USC? I call shenanigans.