2025 Transfer Portal Watch

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Bad Gopher said:
That's exactly the point. Last year's team should have been NIT material. In fairness, Mike Mitchell's injury derailed them early, and he never regained form. But they showed what they were capable of by beating some good teams. With more consistency, who knows? Coaching matters.

My assessment is that how they round out the roster with those last six scholarships will be the difference between them being an NIT contender and an NCAA contender.
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I'm agreeing with you. He will round off the roster and with him and his staff at the helm more wins will follow
 

Hearing Barnstable from UST could be heading to Tulsa? A step down from UST .. Tulsa KenPom was in the high 200’s… must not of got the response he thought… interesting if that’s where he lands
 

I probably said this in this thread somewhere else, but Washington had almost the exact parallel to Minnesota last year (hired a MWC coach with a good reputation and had to build almost an entire team from the portal). They had 4 conference wins.
 


Roland Brooks said:
Hearing Barnstable from UST could be heading to Tulsa? A step down from UST .. Tulsa KenPom was in the high 200’s… must not of got the response he thought… interesting if that’s where he lands
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Well, the AAC is a better league than the Summit, but yeah, not what he was probably aiming for.
 

formerlybis said:
I probably said this in this thread somewhere else, but Washington had almost the exact parallel to Minnesota last year (hired a MWC coach with a good reputation and had to build almost an entire team from the portal). They had 4 conference wins.
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We can hope. Dude is killing it ahead of his second season.
 






GoldenMAV30266 said:
3 years of pretty pedestrian stats and low shooting percentages. Wouldn’t be mad if he committed elsewhere
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Feels like a depth piece, gotta fill out the bottom of the roster with bodies too, and at least he's got some power conference experience. I'd bet Utah State is promising a bigger role though.
 





GoldenMAV30266 said:
3 years of pretty pedestrian stats and low shooting percentages. Wouldn’t be mad if he committed elsewhere
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yup....we currently have 1 true guard on our roster. 7 spots filled, 8 spots to go. we will be targeting depth pieces that are ok in that role.....
 




As I’ve been seeing so many players in the portal who played a handful of games and then got injured, never to return for that season, I am wondering how many of these players are deciding to cash the season in, making sure they can retain their eligibility by not exceeding the games played limit, and revisit the portal at the end nd of the season for a fresh start and fresh paycheck. I have no idea if this is based in any reality—but from the injured players I am aware of, no one seems to be staying where they are at. A promising roster on paper can seemingly go poof if player X decides their tender hamstring needs a full season of recovery. If I recall correctly, Iowa State had a scenario where a key player this season decided to kick back to preserve his NBA prospects/preparation. With the money flowing through NIL, it seems inevitable that this will be (if not already) a reality in modern college hoops.
 

coolhandgopher said:
As I’ve been seeing so many players in the portal who played a handful of games and then got injured, never to return for that season, I am wondering how many of these players are deciding to cash the season in, making sure they can retain their eligibility by not exceeding the games played limit, and revisit the portal at the end nd of the season for a fresh start and fresh paycheck. I have no idea if this is based in any reality—but from the injured players I am aware of, no one seems to be staying where they are at. A promising roster on paper can seemingly go poof if player X decides their tender hamstring needs a full season of recovery. If I recall correctly, Iowa State had a scenario where a key player this season decided to kick back to preserve his NBA prospects/preparation. With the money flowing through NIL, it seems inevitable that this will be (if not already) a reality in modern college hoops.
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Somehow the contracts that must inevitably enter this have address the sandbagging temptation. Workers comp has an elaborate system for determining how much and what kind of work someone coming off injury can do. Should be possible to replicate in the pay for play era.
 

coolhandgopher said:
As I’ve been seeing so many players in the portal who played a handful of games and then got injured, never to return for that season, I am wondering how many of these players are deciding to cash the season in, making sure they can retain their eligibility by not exceeding the games played limit, and revisit the portal at the end nd of the season for a fresh start and fresh paycheck. I have no idea if this is based in any reality—but from the injured players I am aware of, no one seems to be staying where they are at. A promising roster on paper can seemingly go poof if player X decides their tender hamstring needs a full season of recovery. If I recall correctly, Iowa State had a scenario where a key player this season decided to kick back to preserve his NBA prospects/preparation. With the money flowing through NIL, it seems inevitable that this will be (if not already) a reality in modern college hoops.
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I believe this is what happened with Omot last year.
 

studentgopher94 said:
Feels like a depth piece, gotta fill out the bottom of the roster with bodies too, and at least he's got some power conference experience. I'd bet Utah State is promising a bigger role though.
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True, but I'd rather see that done with freshmen or sophs who may have some upside. At this point, this guy probably is who he is
 








Ski-U-Ham said:
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Are these for one year only?

If so, that places the most elite college players in a salary range equivalent to the middle of the first round of the NBA draft and those right below them are in the range of the low first rounders and second rounders. That's for 31+ games as opposed to 82+ games. How did we get to this place?
 


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