Good catch! After nearly a lifetime of living in MN, I can't break the habit! Edit has been made. I even highlighted in purple!
I am sure someone will do a breakdown (maybe already has) of all the players whose college careers have ended by entering the portal. With these past few years of massive expansion of the portal it would be really interesting to know what percentage of players, stayed put, moved up, moved down, or ended up out of the game due to it.
I’m curious how many of the ended careers are guys who were grad transfers trying to take the pandemic year. Really feel sorry for the guys who give up a free degree for a failed basketball dream.
At least in the case of grad transfers that don't find a home they had a career. But yeah, feel bad for guys who go searching for something better and end up finding nothing.
That’s life! Quitting a job with no guaranteed backup plan in place.
But in this case isn’t having a guaranteed school considered tampering?
That’s why they might want to remain on scholarship at their current school. There is no guarantee so it’s a chance they take. They’re not supposed to arrange an under the radar transfer before entering the transfer portal, though given the past and current corruption in college basketball it’s probably going on. I’m wondering if some NIL marketing group associated with a school can legally contact the transfer portal player to promote what they can offer. Even if that’s illegal it’s hard to believe it isn’t going on.
That's his point. Most who enter do not have any guarantees for landing. The good ones are assured (guaranteed) of landing somewhere.
Good for Stewart. Solid reasoning from my porch.
Things are picking up and we will probably have a new target or two by May 1st, the deadline to enter the portal without sitting out a season.
Information has become very tight over the last week or two. I actual think that much of it has to do with the fallout of the NIL drama that has been unfolding. Coaches and ADs are likely scrambling to work with their boosters to find out what they have to offer. NIL through outside parties has introduced a new variable to recruiting that is just mind-blowing.
Well....it has that feel but the reality is that we do have 4 spots open and need a second PG, so for that purpose I agree with it. Still it is awfully quiet on the SG front and that is concerning.
Transfer portal recruiting is a lot less 'fun' to me than HS recruiting. It really feels like a meat market crossed with musical chairs. There is no premium on building relationships.
For the Gophers, yes, otherwise it seems to me like it has picked up steam.
As was pointed it out it all depends on what we are recruiting Samuels to do. If we are recruiting him to start then yeah, things are maybe not going well and we are possibly getting kind of desperate to fill spots. If we are recruiting him to be a backup PG (seems likely) then those that are worrying about what this means should take a step back and let things play out.
In my monitoring of the portal, the last 7-10 days has slowed in terms of news. Players have taken visits and there is a trickle of commitments.
Doesn't suggest struggling. Ben needs to discuss the role he would play and if he has the right attitude to be the backup to Coop, giving us 3-minutes stretches of hell on wheels. Smart move by coach.
Sounds good. Seeing Shannon, Aimaq, Llewellyn, Freidel committing these last couple of days starts triggering my restlessness.
I am in the same boat. The pacing of recruiting the portal is not my cup of tea. It is extremely hard to find decent information because things move really fast and most transfers aren't giving a lot of interviews or indications what they are looking for. Leads to throwing a bunch of rumors around until something sticks.
Johnson doesn't seem to mind doing things a little different. Some have gathered that he may be favoring the high school recruits for this position. These are HIS first high school recruits... maybe he wants to get Carrington and Henley some major run this year and have some solid but unspectacular backups ready to steady the ship if needed? Maybe he feels confident in some of the '23 guards and is fine with a stop gap this year?