NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[Alford Bailey 12,363]

6 minutes ago, cthomas said:

The time investment in high school recruits is absurd compared to recruiting the portal. Given his coaching background, I could see CMW liking the portal option much better. It has that NBA free agency feel all over it. The upside is experience, maturity, performance record, and greatly reduced time expenditure. From a coaches viewpoint, what's not to like.

Downside is you may only get a guy for 1 year but yea it’s gonna be the way things go unless rules change.

[Hoosierfan1901 6,150]

8 minutes ago, kreigh8 said:

Is Essegian to IU still a thing? Athletically is he the type of player IU is looking for? His shooting numbers are pretty decent which combined that with 3 years of eligibility and being from Indiana, I can see the appeal

Never a thing in the first place 

[cthomas 6,346]

9 minutes ago, TeeterInNJ said:

I guess as long as we bring in ~2 HS kids a year who will stick around a while so we have some form of a core from year to year, I don't hate it... Gotta adapt to survive in the modern era of college basketball. Going to be pretty tough to build a program/culture with any real continuity taking a portal first approach though, I'd think. Hope we can make it work each season 

For the record, I don't love the portal. But as things stand, we have embrace it or get buried by it.

[kreigh8 2,037]

8 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Never a thing in the first place 

Thanks, saw it in another thread and was generally curious

[Golfman25 5,104]

26 minutes ago, TeeterInNJ said:

I guess as long as we bring in ~2 HS kids a year who will stick around a while so we have some form of a core from year to year, I don't hate it... Gotta adapt to survive in the modern era of college basketball. Going to be pretty tough to build a program/culture with any real continuity taking a portal first approach though, I'd think. Hope we can make it work each season 

The portal won’t get you studs like TJD.  Those guys go pro when they want to leave, whether after 1-4 years.  

[Stuhoo 79,864]

The portal gets you mentally strong 22 year olds, who will regularly kick the crap out of 18/19 year olds.

[RaceToTheTop 25,144]

To my line of thinking, if there was anything to Ward, Ledlum AND DeLoach all coming to IU that might mean Reneau would be transferring.  Zero knowledge of anything like that and I don’t see all three coming but the truth is I like all four of those players including Reneau.  Anyway, it will all get sorted out.

[RaceToTheTop 25,144]

Just now, Stuhoo said:

The portal gets you mentally strong 22 year olds, who will regularly kick the crap out of 18/19 year olds.

On the reverse side, it does get low to mid majors some talented players that would not likely have left a major to go there.  And last season’s tournament showed that it actually created more parity not less.  The losers still seem to be the incoming freshman though.

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,064]

35 minutes ago, cthomas said:

The time investment in high school recruits is absurd compared to recruiting the portal. Given his coaching background, I could see CMW liking the portal option much better. It has that NBA free agency feel all over it. The upside is experience, maturity, performance record, and greatly reduced time expenditure. From a coaches viewpoint, what's not to like.

I agree 100%.  Those that adapt to the changes in the best way reap the rewards.  Kentucky was early and the best in the one n done era of recycling top talent. They had pretty good results with it. The landscape has changed. More options out there to roster build.  
 

I also hope it somewhat tamed the dramatics of the high school kid having ALL the power and brings recruitments back to life a little.  
 

id say you always have roster spots 11-13 to play with.  But you want 1-10 to be dudes.  At least 1-8.  Anyway.  Scouting becomes even more important. 

[Henryville Hoosier 971]

[Stuhoo 79,864]

9 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

Ohhhhhh buddy.

[RaceToTheTop 25,144]

From the same Twitter account.  It’s not a huge one — 8300 followers — but still.

 

 

[Stuhoo 79,864]

29 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

The portal gets you mentally strong 22 year olds, who will regularly kick the crap out of 18/19 year olds.

Such as Chris Ledlum.

15 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

 

[Tasmanian Devil 1,526]

3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

From the same Twitter account.  It’s not a huge one — 8300 followers — but still.

 

 

Does he hav anything to say regarding Dalton Knecht?? :) ;)

[OliviaPope40 6,470]

My dad and I were talking about this last night but me our troubles started long before Sampson when the university thought holding Knight to a zero tolerance policy was going to work which it didn't had Knight not done what he did with Neil Reid he would've gotten to pick the next coach instead of letting the university decide it for him and the program would've been different than where we are now. I just don't know how different things would've been either had Sampson did what he did forget the argument that what he did is now legal that to me is beside the point and Dakich likely doesn't get a chance to coach. We also had the whole bumper sticker issue too which we also reported.

[JSHoosier 19,924]

1 minute ago, OliviaPope40 said:

My dad and I were talking about this last night but me our troubles started long before Sampson when the university thought holding Knight to a zero tolerance policy was going to work which it didn't had Knight not done what he did with Neil Reid he would've gotten to pick the next coach instead of letting the university decide it for him and the program would've been different than where we are now. I just don't know how different things would've been either had Sampson did what he did forget the argument that what he did is now legal that to me is beside the point and Dakich likely doesn't get a chance to coach. We also had the whole bumper sticker issue too which we also reported.

If RMK picked the next coach we may have ended up with Pat Knight coaching....

[MikeRoberts 6,942]

46 minutes ago, Golfman25 said:

The portal won’t get you studs like TJD.  Those guys go pro when they want to leave, whether after 1-4 years.  

I hear you but Oscar to UK was kinda on that level

[OliviaPope40 6,470]

[go iu bb 5,586]

40 minutes ago, OliviaPope40 said:

My dad and I were talking about this last night but me our troubles started long before Sampson when the university thought holding Knight to a zero tolerance policy was going to work which it didn't had Knight not done what he did with Neil Reid he would've gotten to pick the next coach instead of letting the university decide it for him and the program would've been different than where we are now. I just don't know how different things would've been either had Sampson did what he did forget the argument that what he did is now legal that to me is beside the point and Dakich likely doesn't get a chance to coach. We also had the whole bumper sticker issue too which we also reported.

The zero tolerance policy worked exactly as the the administration wanted it to. They wanted Knight gone but were too cowardly to outright fire him so they made that policy so they could claim that it was with cause.

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To my line of thinking, if there was anything to Ward, Ledlum AND DeLoach all coming to IU that might mean Reneau would be transferring.  Zero knowledge of anything like that and I don’t see all three coming but the truth is I like all four of those players including Reneau.  Anyway, it will all get sorted out.

Ward?

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