NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[lillurk]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I’ve talked myself in wanting love. @Chris007 Whatve you heard 

I’M IN TOO LET ME WATCH THE FASTEST BACKCOURT ON EARTH

[Scotty R]

26 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

And I will.  I’m hanging on to hope that aces are up sleeves because there is plenty of NIL to put our best foot forward. But some of these portal guys are let’s say underwhelming. 
 

I’ll never give up the hope.  Us diehards have been through it all.  

You can't just look at the name of the schools or even stats all the time when looking at transfers. 

Baylor Championship team 

Teague- UNC Asheville averaged 15pts 

Flagger- Presbyterian 14pts 

Mitchell- Auburn 4 pts 

Miami team has starters that came from Arkansas St and George Mason 

[lillurk]

1 minute ago, lillurk said:

I’M IN TOO LET ME WATCH THE FASTEST BACKCOURT ON EARTH

Seriously my heuristic for every transfer is: Dude or Not a Dude? As I wrote elsewhere you need 7+ dudes to be a final four contender. IU’s 3 returning dudes: X, Trey, Malik.

Gunn and Banks may turn into dudes next year (eventually both will, the question is whether they would as sophs). Sparks can be a dude as 3rd big.

Love? Absolutely a dude. What CMW has done with X? JR Smith? Josh Smith? Love would not be a unique challenge for him.

[hoosiersoxfan]

Love is a shot chucker but a very talented player.  With the right coaching he could be as good as any college guard in the country.

[Scotty R]

26 minutes ago, dwtaylor1055 said:

IU has contacted Love per Rabby

Talent wise it would be great but hope Woodson can coach him out if his shot selection and attitude 

[Chris007]

11 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I’ve talked myself in wanting love. @Chris007 Whatve you heard 

We’re talking to him & he’s interested. So we’ll see what happens.

[lillurk]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

We’re talking to him & he’s interested. So we’ll see what happens.

LOOKING RESPECTFULLY

[Stuhoo]

Love is also a Midwestern kid. I like this.

We need Ledlum for locker room leadership to make this potentially super sweet. Payton Sparks helps the locker room already. 

[RaceToTheTop]

4 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

If I felt we had a strong core of leaders I might feel differently about Love.

Someone mentioned Belichick sometimes taking fliers like that and it's because the strong core in the locker room allowed for a flier here and there.

The ceiling is certainly there, though.  I get the shooting concerns.  But from a defensive standpoint, he's a plus defender.  When Roy Williams coached him, he called him one of the best defensive guards he's seen.

It could backfire or it could succeed wildly.  But we've had a lot of players who basically had a ceiling that wasn't good enough -- particularly at the guard position.  Xavier Johnson was one of those guys who came to IU whose results at Pittsburgh didn't match his talent level and I think the staff has succeeded with him.

[Scotty R]

3 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Seriously my heuristic for every transfer is: Dude or Not a Dude? As I wrote elsewhere you need 7+ dudes to be a final four contender. IU’s 3 returning dudes: X, Trey, Malik.

Gunn and Banks may turn into dudes next year (eventually both will, the question is whether they would as sophs). Sparks can be a dude as 3rd big.

Love? Absolutely a dude. What CMW has done with X? JR Smith? Josh Smith? Love would not be a unique challenge for him.

I don't think Trey would be a dude on a championship caliber team maybe the 7-8 type player

 

[Henryville Hoosier]

14 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I’ve talked myself in wanting love. @Chris007 Whatve you heard 

You need a lot of $$$ to buy love.

[RaceToTheTop]

Just now, Scotty R said:

I don't think Trey would be a dude on a championship caliber team maybe the 7-8 type player

 

To be fair, he said you 7+ dudes to be a final four contender......so if Trey were the 7-8 type player on a championship caliber team, he qualifies by that standard as a dude.

[lillurk]

Just now, RaceToTheTop said:

To be fair, he said you 7+ dudes to be a final four contender......so if Trey were the 7-8 type player on a championship caliber team, he qualifies by that standard as a dude.

Right, he can be a defensive pest as your least-important offensive option as a starter, or a high-minute bench guy on a good team.

E.g. If you start X/Love/Johnell Davis/Leflum/Reneau, Trey can be your best perimeter bench player and you’d be prettttttttty good

[Scotty R]

2 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Right, he can be a defensive pest as your least-important offensive option as a starter, or a high-minute bench guy on a good team.

E.g. If you start X/Love/Johnell Davis/Leflum/Reneau, Trey can be your best perimeter bench player and you’d be prettttttttty good

Where do you get that Davis would be on our roster 

[ISP]

2 hours ago, str8baller said:

Mostly an IU fan created rumor but I did watch the game with some local Badger fans last night and they were ripping him for his lousy second half of the season. That narrative mostly started after the paper put an article on the front page sort of blaming him for having some bad games.  
 

It was kind of odd, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if it pissed him off. Everyone is different and he may be the type of guy to just ignore that kind of stuff.  
 

I don’t know what the NIL opportunities are up here but you’d have to think he’d be the type of home state kid that could cleanup by transferring to a place like IU.  
 

Obviously all that is speculation, but I foresee that type of speculation to be the norm from here on out in the new world of the portal and NIL. 

I can tell you with confidence that IU is Essegian’s dream school. If Woody offered him a scholarship he would transfer. Obviously it would all have to be done through back channels, but the door is open on one side. Trust me on this one. This could be revisited next off season as well.

Edited March 29, 2023 by ISP

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, ISP said:

I can tell you with confidence that IU is Essegian’s dream school. If Woody offered him a scholarship he would transfer. Obviously it would all have to be done through back channels, but the door is open on one side. Trust me on this one. This could be revisited next off season as well.

#Bold

#fireGardHe’sATurd

[IU_FanClub]

For the love of God no more Essegian talk please lol. There’s nothing this fanbase loves more than an average white guard from Indiana that wasn’t recruited by IU 

[Alford Bailey]

X, Love and Davis is a FF backcourt. Where do I sign up. Add Essigian letting hair his grow out Alford feathered style. Too much sauce?

[Stuhoo]

Just now, Alford Bailey said:

X, Love and Davis is a FF backcourt. Where do I sign up. Add Essigian letting hair his grow out Alford feathered style. Too much sauce?

X, Love, and Gallo is a championship level backcourt.. 

Especially defensively.

[Parakeet Jones]

17 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

You need a lot of $$$ to buy love.

That’s a story as old as time.