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    Dawson Garcia Entering The Transfer Portal

    No I'm very pervious to others' views. Bringing Garcia at MN into an ethics stance against college basketball players playing extra years may have confused me, much like my wife's use of exclamation points. I am 100% with those against perpetual eligibility, but the powers that be have never...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    But does he love the uniform?
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    Dawson Garcia Entering The Transfer Portal

    I am shocked to hear that people posting on this board are saying Garcia should move on or he isn't worth signing. Regardless of the reason, here are Torvik's analytically derived top 30 players in NCAA bb this past season: Stirtz Drake Thornton OSU Kalkenbrenner Creight Flagg (Dook)...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    I get your point, but it is the same "high road" example that the Univ. of MN took initially with NIL. -- We are against paying college athletes because the purity of amateur sports would be stained. It comes down to what we would want in our fantasy world/ideal case scenario VS wanting to...
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    2025-26 Gopher Mens Basketball Roster

    Purely hypothetical, looking at the current list of players I have to assume MN has spent about $3M thus far on Asuma, Crocker-Johnson, Omot, Durkin, Vaihola, Reynolds, and Willis, Jr. The needs remaining are C, PF, CG for rotations. I am expecting MN to make a "splash" signing at Center rim...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Freitag passed on MN when Asuma committed and was garnering more momentum as a legit 3/4-star recruit. Couldn’t see Freitag as Gopher at this point unless it was for PJ.
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Lu'Cye Patterson in portal further emphasizes a likely NCAA 5th year allowance to be ruled in June....
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    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...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    I told myself I wasn’t going to do that this year, yet here I am.
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    Shama: Jim Dutcher "recently renewed his driver’s license and eats what he wants."

    Great to hear! Fantastic memories as a high schooler going to Jim Dutcher BB Camp at St. Olaf. Phil Saunders taught me the finer points of shooting free throws. Watched some great teams in the Barn but none top '76-'77 team (24-3/15-3 conf) with three 6'10" guys and starting five: Mychal...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    Terrance Brown to Utah. He played well against MN in FD game. I can understand if Niko or he passed on MN. Big Ten body maybe not ready, and more volume shooter like Caleb was esp against us. MN kid.
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    Dawson Garcia returning

    If there is any credence to my prev post, I would anticipate the NCAA to make its announcement allowing a 5th year of eligibility after the NBA draft day 2–after June 26. There must be some stipulation in the NCAA settlement regarding athletes to be paid over “four years”. Allowing 5 years...
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    Dawson Garcia returning

    Sounds like somebody knows something. Otherwise why wouldn’t Wolfson just say, “no”. Theoretically, the NCAA payout to past players would be decreased by allowing a 5th year to the guys that were freshmen around 2019. The court case mandated in July 2021 payments of $2.75 billion to athletes...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    We need a big dude, and he does have the rare ability to shoot better from the field than the free throw line. I trust he's on the board in the War Room. :)
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    With guys leaving Michigan St., it makes me wonder if Izzo let them know ahead of time that he is going to retire.
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    I respectfully disagree. In the current portal era, a team CAN effectively build a successful NCAA Tournament caliber team in a short time. The next month or two will seem like an eternity to me. Historically through recruiting HS athletes it has taken years to develop and build prolonged...
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    All Things Christian Wiggins Recruitment Thread (Wayzata Guard, 2026)

    Recruiting is way more than throwing money at the guys with big statistics. Maybe certain kids don't study and can't get into a particular school, maybe he and mom just want to stuff the stat sheet, maybe after meeting the family the coaches smell weed in the house, or maybe the kids feels he...
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    2025 Transfer Portal Watch

    He’ll follow God’$ plan
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    The NIL Collective: Minnesota

    Ok, “Endowment” 😁



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