2025 Transfer Portal Watch

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Bobek said:
Unless Mr. Lee’s is an obvious high major player with professional talent, If I was his parent I would be very unhappy that my son wants to transfer from Princeton. An Ivy League grad has a great resume to start an exciting and rewarding and well paid career in any field he chooses. But planning on a professional basketball career is dicey at best. If he is a good player he can still try the pro route once he graduates. You can never take away his Ivy League degree, but he could blow out a knee at the first practice at his new school. I wish him well, but ……
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Lol what?

You take a one-year 7-figure NIL deal every time. If he desires, he can return to school and finish his degree (if he hasn't already) as a millionaire, while his money works for him.
 

topos said:
Lol what?

You take a one-year 7-figure NIL deal every time. If he desires, he can return to school and finish his degree (if he hasn't already) as a millionaire, while his money works for him.
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If he can get it, but you never know how things will play out. I don’t blame him for trying. My obvious bias is to have my children well educated critical thinkers, which are in short supply these days. I know not everyone thinks that way, which the transfer portal verifies every day. Sadly hundreds of portal players will not find a well paying gig. I wish him well.
 


MaxyJR1 said:
I think the process will be carried out a bit more this year and most have the goal of being set for summer workouts. More visits and recruiting is being done this time as schools are the ones actually paying salaries for these athletes. Portal is open until April 22nd or 30 days after final game or coaching change.
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Portal open for entry or for signing? Theoretically there could be signings all summer, correct?
 

Bobek said:
If he can get it, but you never know how things will play out. I don’t blame him for trying. My obvious bias is to have my children well educated critical thinkers, which are in short supply these days. I know not everyone thinks that way, which the transfer portal verifies every day. Sadly hundreds of portal players will not find a well paying gig. I wish him well.
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I think very few will get a well paying gig. The ones we hear about are cashing in. But
ASun players are not getting life changing money when they transfer there. They may only get a free education. Good Heavens, young labor is getting oppressed.

Someone needs to do some digging about how many players are really getting paid to play. I bet in the large scheme of things, few are. And even if those who do, it will be minimal.
 


Bobek said:
Unless Mr. Lee’s is an obvious high major player with professional talent, If I was his parent I would be very unhappy that my son wants to transfer from Princeton. An Ivy League grad has a great resume to start an exciting and rewarding and well paid career in any field he chooses. But planning on a professional basketball career is dicey at best. If he is a good player he can still try the pro route once he graduates. You can never take away his Ivy League degree, but he could blow out a knee at the first practice at his new school. I wish him well, but ……
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Well, he's obviously a high major player. And he's a projected 2nd round pick, as of now. If I was his parent, I'd be thrilled that's he's in line to get a $2M payday somewhere soon, and the added exposure of playing at a high major school, if he doesn't declare for the NBA draft.

He could stay at Princeton, blow out his knee in the first practice and miss out on a huge payday.
 


Holy Man said:
I think very few will get a well paying gig. The ones we hear about are cashing in. But
ASun players are not getting life changing money when they transfer there. They may only get a free education. Good Heavens, young labor is getting oppressed.

Someone needs to do some digging about how many players are really getting paid to play. I bet in the large scheme of things, few are. And even if those who do, it will be minimal.
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I would think that the top 100 teams have most of their roster, if not all of it, getting some money.
How many are getting six figures or more? I'd guess 300-500 players in that category. Wild guess.

How many would you guess?
 

Maybe $5 trillion out of the stock market these last two days. There must be a couple of NIL donors who were impacted. Maybe the price for a starter at a second tier place will sag a bit.
 



bga1 said:
I would think that the top 100 teams have most of their roster, if not all of it, getting some money.
How many are getting six figures or more? I'd guess 300-500 players in that category. Wild guess.

How many would you guess?
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I’m throwing darts like you and everyone else, but guess your number is too high. I’d split your top figure nearly in half that maybe 60 teams have entire rosters getting something and a percentage of that getting a lot, which I would consider in the six figure range. I think a small number of guys will get seven figures.

I think the vast majority of players are getting nothing or close to it.

I would not want to be an AD who is managing salaries, revenue, and trying to keep the department in the black. My guess is ADs are agonizing about how to divide up revenue share and make sure non revenue sports are funded. I know people who are alums of non revenue sports at the U who are not at all happy with the situation now.

Most of the time my job is hard, but it’s a walk in the park compared to that.
 

Holy Man said:
Portal open for entry or for signing? Theoretically there could be signings all summer, correct?
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I think the portal is only open for entry during the specific windows but you can sign guys anytime up to whatever the deadline is to have your roster set for the upcoming season.

That said, I doubt there is really anything to stop guys from going into the portal basically anytime they want to in this current landscape.
 

MNVCGUY said:
I think the portal is only open for entry during the specific windows but you can sign guys anytime up to whatever the deadline is to have your roster set for the upcoming season.

That said, I doubt there is really anything to stop guys from going into the portal basically anytime they want to in this current landscape.
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I can’t wait until Duke has a training camp injury in late October and raids a Missouri Valley school to replace him just before the season. It’s not if, it’s when.
 







Bad Gopher said:
Additional info from Tony...

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For the record, Johnson-Arigu is not a guard, nor was he "4 star recruit" out of high school.

Enrolled at UofMiami June 2024, Iowa January 2025. Presumably on his third school less than a year after HS graduation. Wow
 


USAF said:
For the record, Johnson-Arigu is not a guard, nor was he "4 star recruit" out of high school.

Enrolled at UofMiami June 2024, Iowa January 2025. Presumably on his third school less than a year after HS graduation. Wow
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Please tell me USAF, how many stars are there on that 247 composite? Also, his coaches left, Larranaga at Miami and McCaffrey at Iowa, it makes sense.
 

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Holy Man said:
I can’t wait until Duke has a training camp injury in late October and raids a Missouri Valley school to replace him just before the season. It’s not if, it’s when.
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I've said before....at some point here we are going to see someone attempt an in season transfer in college basketball at the semester break and sue for immediate eligibility for that same season. Only a matter of time.

I mean there are still rules but seems like anything that gets challenged in court goes in favor of the athlete.
 

studentgopher94 said:
Transferred there mid-season after Miami coach left mid-year so was ineligible, now transfering again after Fran was fired.
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Thanks....was trying to piece together how he was an Iowa transfer when he played for Miami during the 24-25 season..... :)
 

USAF said:
For the record, Johnson-Arigu is not a guard, nor was he "4 star recruit" out of high school.

Enrolled at UofMiami June 2024, Iowa January 2025. Presumably on his third school less than a year after HS graduation. Wow
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Rated 3-star as a prospect (coming out of high school); 4-star as a transfer
 

Bad Gopher said:
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I remember him in the state state tournament and thinking he was the best player on the floor in every game he played. Word at the time was that he had gotten a lot of money to go to Miami and Ben didn’t even bother to offer. He’s crazy athletic and probably is a small forward., but he’s an interesting player and has plenty of talent. Can’t imagine he can demand too much money, and I’ll trust Medved to determine if he fits within the system. It is interesting that he had a CSU offer out of high school.
 


He only played a total of 43 minutes over 8 games for Miami, with several DNPs, before transferring to Iowa (who had recruited him previously). Miami was really bad, too, so it's a little concerning he couldn't get on the floor. If he weren't from MN...
 



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