All Things 2026 Transfer Portal Thread

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bga1 said:
Where is Xavier getting all of that cash from? Is Rick Sr pitching a few million in?
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I listened to a podcast recording of Richard...somewhere on the www (was it the KFAN interview or another?) that took place during the NCAA Tournament. He said at the beginning of last season he was very direct with boosters and administration...if this is all the money we have to spend we cannot expect to compete in the NIL era. Xavier is a basketball school....they wanna win so they did raise more money.

He said this again timeline wise, during the NCAA Tournament...he was at that time very confident that Xavier was going to have a really good portal class. He knew.... the back and forth was between the lines...and I'm guessing...but Richard knew Tru Washington was coming....he knew they had something going with the big guy they signed when the portal opened.
I think they did raise some more money but they were done playing and he was focused on connections with agents and guys he knew....they were prepared...had a plan of who they were targeting. So, I think preparation groundwork maybe more than big money....but they got more money than they had last year too...but I think most all other schools do too.

This last guy they signed...Westry...had 11, 10 and 15 assists the last 3 games of the year....avg 15.5ppg...can't shoot 3's....but he's 6'6". All 4 portal guys averaged double figures. Pozzato was hurt...averaged 15ppg at Evansville. Milicevic came from New Mexico to Xavier and was 12.4ppg last year. And 4 intriguing freshmen....they got a nice group with about 5 spots left.
 






bga1 said:
Where is Xavier getting all of that cash from? Is Rick Sr pitching a few million in?
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While all schools can pay up to $21 million in revenue sharing, Xavier and other teams in the Big East don't have football eating up 75% or more of that. If Xavier is paying up to the $21 million cap (big if), their basketball team probably has close to $15 million more than Minnesota from the get-go, not including NIL donors.

Even if Xavier doesn't spend up to the $21 million, I'd guess they have a lot more going to basketball than Minnesota does.
 

Hates Monikers said:
While all schools can pay up to $21 million in revenue sharing, Xavier and other teams in the Big East don't have football eating up 75% or more of that. If Xavier is paying up to the $21 million cap (big if), their basketball team probably has close to $15 million more than Minnesota from the get-go, not including NIL donors.

Even if Xavier doesn't spend up to the $21 million, I'd guess they have a lot more going to basketball than Minnesota does.
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Their budgets are hurting though more than a Big Ten school though, and they still have to fund other programs. Big Ten schools, including MN, have more money for basketball than Xavier and almost all Big East schools.
 




MTBeaudry said:
Who cares this is Gopherhole not hoosierhole! Whats going on with Evans and the big guy / Matas
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You can't give information if you don't have any. That's why people are defaulting to talking about other programs.
 


Hates Monikers said:
While all schools can pay up to $21 million in revenue sharing, Xavier and other teams in the Big East don't have football eating up 75% or more of that. If Xavier is paying up to the $21 million cap (big if), their basketball team probably has close to $15 million more than Minnesota from the get-go, not including NIL donors.

Even if Xavier doesn't spend up to the $21 million, I'd guess they have a lot more going to basketball than Minnesota does.
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Well, they can pay up to 21 million or a percentage of their athletic department revenue, whichever is less (I believe). In 2024 their athletic department revenue was just under 40 million, while the U of M was at 151 million. So with 22% being that max percentage the most X could have in revenue sharing would be about 8 million- if they put it all to men's basketball.
 





Tucker32 said:
Their budgets are hurting though more than a Big Ten school though, and they still have to fund other programs. Big Ten schools, including MN, have more money for basketball than Xavier and almost all Big East schools.
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Are they even allowed to spend $21 million? I thought his was a calculation based on a % of the conference media revenue.
 

TimetoWin said:
Per RJ, Matas is worried about his minutes here, so will likely go elsewhere.
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It is hard to imagine a high major where he would have a better shot at minutes at the center position, unless the coaches told him that Mpoyi has the inside track at being the center (which I can't imagine they would say at this point). If someone is worried about competing with Grayson Grove, who pinched in admirably, then I would be worried about how good the player is.
 
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MTBeaudry said:
Who cares this is Gopherhole not hoosierhole! Whats going on with Evans and the big guy / Matas
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Except you must not be reading the title of the thread: All things 2026 Transfer Portal Thread. There is a Gopher centric thread, this ain’t it.
 



bga1 said:
Well, they can pay up to 21 million or a percentage of their athletic department revenue, whichever is less (I believe). In 2024 their athletic department revenue was just under 40 million, while the U of M was at 151 million. So with 22% being that max percentage the most X could have in revenue sharing would be about 8 million- if they put it all to men's basketball.
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Thx for explaining how this works with schools that have no football program. Otherwise schools like Marquette, Xavier, and Gonzaga could spend the bulk of $20 million just on basketball, outspending everyone else for players. The system still is a farce, with the well funded big boys having huge advantages over everyone else.
bga1 said:
Well, they can pay up to 21 million or a percentage of their athletic department revenue, whichever is less (I believe). In 2024 their athletic department revenue was just under 40 million, while the U of M was at 151 million. So with 22% being that max percentage the most X could have in revenue sharing would be about 8 million- if they put it all to men's basketball.
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Geez, Louisville is killing it. Karter Knox another addition for the birds.
 

Ski-U-Ham said:

Hasn't played in 2 years
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Great kid. He was injured but he was a mentor to the younger kids. I wouldn’t consider him a guard. He more of an undersized four. Not much of a shooter. Biggest strength is rebounding. He did start on an Elite Eight team. Was going to be behind Mirkovic at the four and Stoyakovic at the three. Needs to go somewhere that he can get big minutes after missing two seasons.
 

Basketball Portal Budgets In the Athletic...
"Gotta have $10M or more to field a competitive roster."
"Teams can get the money".... most teams get $4M from revenue sharing...that's automatically approved. But now the other $6M is NIL, it has to be approved by the clearing house. Nobody knows how you get approved because everybody gets denied but you keep sending it in and usually eventually it gets approved but there is no guidelines for what gets approved.
The problem is the budgets have gone way over the automatically approved rev share money.

So most deals are NIL money. Most teams promise the money to the players and figure out how to get the deals approved later or even how it will be funded.
I have no idea what happens when teams can't get their NIL deals approved .... say in January.
You are probably making payments to the player ? But they are now denied for the final time and the school is supposed to do what? and ...then what?
Seems likely the NCAA just caves and approves deals? ...eventually. Seems unlikely they disband all the teams in the Top 25 for paying players too much money through NIL.

Also, there are soooo many deals it takes forever beyond it almost automatically always gets rejected to start so they can buy more time.
More messed up than anybody could imagine.

Big East has a huge advantage....they just need the money because without football their deals get approved through the $20M automatic revenue sharing approval process. So if you are an agent and want to be sure your player gets their money...get your guy on a Big East team or in a school without football.
Man....what a mess.

Give football $20M revenue sharing. Give basketball an approved $10M (it could be privately funded, but it is capped at $10M for 3 years to study) and do away with away NIL through the school...let agents make their own NIL deals with businesses that the agent clears with the NCAA.
Would it work? Level the playing field? Still gives players NIL opportunities ... establish some rules what's approved in NIL. Can't be like this.
 
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60's Guy said:
Basketball Portal Budgets In the Athletic...
"Gotta have $10M or more to field a competitive roster."
"Teams can get the money".... most teams get $4M from revenue sharing...that's automatically approved. But now the other $6M is NIL, it has to be approved by the clearing house. Nobody knows how you get approved because everybody gets denied but you keep sending it in and usually eventually it gets approved but there is no guidelines for what gets approved.
The problem is the budgets have gone way over the automatically approved rev share money.

So most deals are NIL money. Most teams promise the money to the players and figure out how to get the deals approved later or even how it will be funded.
I have no idea what happens when teams can't get their NIL deals approved .... say in January.
You are probably making payments to the player ? But they are now denied for the final time and the school is supposed to do what? and ...then what?
Seems likely the NCAA just caves and approves deals? ...eventually. Seems unlikely they disband all the teams in the Top 25 for paying players too much money through NIL.

Also, there are soooo many deals it takes forever beyond it almost automatically always gets rejected to start so they can buy more time.
More messed up than anybody could imagine.

Big East has a huge advantage....they just need the money because without football their deals get approved through the $20M automatic revenue sharing approval process. So if you are an agent and want to be sure your player gets their money...get your guy on a Big East team or in a school without football.
Man....what a mess.

Give football $20M revenue sharing. Give basketball an approved $10M (it could be privately funded, but it is capped at $10M for 3 years to study) and do away with away NIL through the school...let agents make their own NIL deals with businesses that the agent clears with the NCAA.
Would it work? Level the playing field? Still gives players NIL opportunities ... establish some rules what's approved in NIL. Can't be like this.
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I’m glad I’m no longer a CBB fan, I’ll keep tabs on the Gophers, but that information describes something beyond asinine and embarrassing.
 

60's Guy said:
Basketball Portal Budgets In the Athletic...
"Gotta have $10M or more to field a competitive roster."
"Teams can get the money".... most teams get $4M from revenue sharing...that's automatically approved. But now the other $6M is NIL, it has to be approved by the clearing house. Nobody knows how you get approved because everybody gets denied but you keep sending it in and usually eventually it gets approved but there is no guidelines for what gets approved.
The problem is the budgets have gone way over the automatically approved rev share money.

So most deals are NIL money. Most teams promise the money to the players and figure out how to get the deals approved later or even how it will be funded.
I have no idea what happens when teams can't get their NIL deals approved .... say in January.
You are probably making payments to the player ? But they are now denied for the final time and the school is supposed to do what? and ...then what?
Seems likely the NCAA just caves and approves deals? ...eventually. Seems unlikely they disband all the teams in the Top 25 for paying players too much money through NIL.

Also, there are soooo many deals it takes forever beyond it almost automatically always gets rejected to start so they can buy more time.
More messed up than anybody could imagine.

Big East has a huge advantage....they just need the money because without football their deals get approved through the $20M automatic revenue sharing approval process. So if you are an agent and want to be sure your player gets their money...get your guy on a Big East team or in a school without football.
Man....what a mess.

Give football $20M revenue sharing. Give basketball an approved $10M (it could be privately funded, but it is capped at $10M for 3 years to study) and do away with away NIL through the school...let agents make their own NIL deals with businesses that the agent clears with the NCAA.
Would it work? Level the playing field? Still gives players NIL opportunities ... establish some rules what's approved in NIL. Can't be like this.
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Gonna disagree with what you said about the Big East’s advantage, because those schools are pretty small compared to the rest of the power 5. Compare Xavier to Ohio St. Yeah, Xavier can throw everything at basketball, and yeah, Ohio St has been publicly accused of starving basketball in favor of football. But OSU has 10x the enrollment. That translates into a way bigger alumni and donor base. OSU’s endowment is like 30x bigger. So even if OSU keeps neglecting basketball, a small slice of a huge pie can be about the same size as all of a much smaller pie. And despite being mostly private schools, I bet the Big East schools don’t have any sort of leg up in terms of ultra rich donors. Maybe Georgetown, being the only academically elite BE, is an exception.
 


FritoPendejo said:
Gonna disagree with what you said about the Big East’s advantage, because those schools are pretty small compared to the rest of the power 5. Compare Xavier to Ohio St. Yeah, Xavier can throw everything at basketball, and yeah, Ohio St has been publicly accused of starving basketball in favor of football. But OSU has 10x the enrollment. That translates into a way bigger alumni and donor base. OSU’s endowment is like 30x bigger. So even if OSU keeps neglecting basketball, a small slice of a huge pie can be about the same size as all of a much smaller pie. And despite being mostly private schools, I bet the Big East schools don’t have any sort of leg up in terms of ultra rich donors. Maybe Georgetown, being the only academically elite BE, is an exception.
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The advantage is in the approval process...the revenue sharing window. They can get all their deals up to $20M automatically approved. Everybody else approval wise has to go through the confusing, laborious NIL approval process for majority of their money deals.
You are correct...the Big East schools have less revenue than Big Ten schools...just an approval advantage if they do get the money together.
 




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