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    Curtis twins at St. Louis Park, how good are they?

    You are probably right. Perhaps in this landscape coaches look at guys that are a little raw on the skill side and say- they need to play in games and I don't have playing time for guys that aren't ready. If they are good at a lower level, I'll deal with trying to recruit them then and steal...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Outside of Garcia- I firmly believe we will have a better roster than last year, a better system and a better coach.
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    Dawson Garcia Entering The Transfer Portal

    It feels like he is going to get another year. There certainly is a current hole in the roster that fits him well and I kind of feel like he could still be a Gopher. He has sacrificed a lot in the past to be here and it is likely we have enough money to make him happy to do it again here. This...
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    2 college basketball teams are out-spending the field in men’s transfer portal, and the numbers are wild

    Right now, big donors are drunk on the idea that they can buy hometown U a title with their cash. It's a new toy. I wonder how long they will continue to do this at this level. I hope at some point some sort of cap goes into place or the goose that laid the golden egg will get destroyed.
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    Dawson Garcia Entering The Transfer Portal

    Remember the APR era? Wow, gone are those days.
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    Dawson Garcia Entering The Transfer Portal

    I think he had to in order to protect his value. It is likely that he wants to stay with the Gophers but he understands that Niko has to fill out his squad and can't wait for the ruling on Dawson. What if the Gophers don't have a 1 million + slot available by that time?
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Garcia has not put his name in the portal, if I recall- so if that were the case- perhaps we already have struck deal with him assuming he can get the added year. Did he put his name in for the NBA draft? I would assume so... This adds another question- if a guy enters the NBA draft but doesn't...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    As of last week, there were still about 40-50 of the top 150 players left and more were coming into the portal. Some of the big time schools will have filled out their core and spent a lot of money doing so. We are going to be a logical stop for a good shooter and a good big. I hope we have...
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    NIKO Has Raised More NIL Money than ALL of Last Year

    I don't think it is going to be rough. Outside of Garcia - unless we keep him- I think this talent incoming appears to be better across the board than what we had last year. Niko will have a better system and we will shoot better. There is some speed here, which Ben just didn't get much of...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    He's got a couple of guys that can drive and dish in Wills and Reynolds, now he needs more shooters like Durkin.
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    St. Thomas

    It is not now comparable to X and Cincy, but that is because the two teams reside at different levels. St Thomas wants to go higher and that could mean that in the future there is a rivalry instead of a big brother/little brother relationship. At some point Gopher fans are going to tire of St...
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    Nolan Groves

    He would have been a nice get by all accounts. That said, what we need is a couple bigs and a sharpshooter. My guess is that we will get them.
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    St. Thomas

    I think that the presumption here is that St Thomas is not now and never will be in our class level and therefore not a competitor. In the future, they might be, especially if they end up in the Big East. Personally, I think St Thomas stuff should be elsewhere. Imagine Cinncinatti having Xavier...
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    NIKO Has Raised More NIL Money than ALL of Last Year

    Do you think for even a nano second that coaches have not been pursuing NIL money from boosters until now?
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    Dawson Garcia returning

    Can't he just say he played for North Carolina?
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    Will you still be invested at the same level of fandom for men’s college hoops in the future as you are currently, based on all the changes now??

    I'll support them with season tickets as long as they are successful (reasonably so at least) in this new landscape. I had seasons for close to 40 years and dropped them last year. Now I am getting them again and so are others. I was just told by the box office that they have already had 300 new...
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    NIKO Has Raised More NIL Money than ALL of Last Year

    Well yeah...that's why you hire a coach and that is why it makes such a difference at all levels with a struggling program like ours. Except for the fact that they didn't get any, that Ben is known to not have engaged in it and he didn't inspire such support with his performance in the W/L column.
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    NIKO Has Raised More NIL Money than ALL of Last Year

    He didn't have the vision to go after it. Obviously, Fleck was modeling it and Ben chose not to jump on the train. The administration, as usual was absent regarding NIL.
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    Niko’s roster construction

    Tucker offers good info.



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