2024 Portal Watch

[Norm Peterson]

Mike Sautter reporting we reached out to William Kyle as soon as he entered the portal. Among bigs, we've also reached out to Michigan Sophomore Tarris Reed.

 

Guards, the list is long.

 

And appears to be of pretty high quality. We don't have our sights set low, for sure.

Edited March 27 by Norm Peterson

[Norm Peterson]

Tarris Reed, Mich

Frankie Fidler, Omaha

Koren Johnson, Wash

William Kyle, SDS

JP Pegues, Furman

Tony Perkins, Iowa

 

 

[Huskerpapa]

...and lest we forget, we seem to have a good pulse on the foreign market of players.  There is a chance we are in play for a player or two 

[jimmykc]

We have to title this thread "Forrest Gump's Box of Chocolates".

[Navin R. Johnson]

 

[Navin R. Johnson]

I wonder where he will end up.

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

1 hour ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

I wonder where he will end up.

 

 

 

I think the tweet already said 'where'... 

[hhcmatt]

amazing

 

 

[49r]

Just now, hhcmatt said:

amazing

 

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

'Wat' PatMc.... dat you?

[Vinny]

He’s gonna follow his dad to Drake. 

[Vinny]

The conversation over in recruiting about which guard spot Janowski is going to slot into helped me solidify how I feel about the portal this year. I thought I wanted someone who can get to the line, and someone who can defend at the basket.

 

Now, I’m just hoping we are able to get guys we need to fill all the roles on the team, whether they’re the highest rated or not. If Fred and company see them fitting in a role, I want them. Come the first game, I don’t want our starting lineup to have anyone playing out of position because we NEED them to.
 

Last off season we were really one, maybe one and a half deep, at the point guard spot. That one player was ruled ineligible around August (?) and we didn’t have a solid backup plan, and had Lawrence as our starting PG. He did as well as could be expected given the situation. But I don’t want him, or anyone else, in that situation this year.

There will always be injuries, suspensions, and in the NIL age players could bolt at anytime. I hope through the portal this year, we’re able to build a roster that is robust to the inevitable player getting hurt, suspended, leaving etc. I think about how much it felt like our NCAA chances were gone when we thought Gary tore his Achilles. I don’t want a single incident like that feeling like we can’t overcome it.
 

Kudos to the coaches for milking 40 minutes of PG play out of a few different players and still getting us to the dance. Let’s go build a roster now that can just work on getting better together, instead of having to learn how to play new positions.  

[Huskerpapa]

36 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

amazing

 

 

He is sort of fragile given his medical history; but you know what, I would take him.

[Dead Dog Alley]

16 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

He is sort of fragile given his medical history; but you know what, I would take him.

Iowa might have a good scout assessment on him...

[AuroranHusker]

24 minutes ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Iowa might have a good scout assessment on him...

 

May be that he gambled too......

 

 

[tcp]

this whole thing feels like a choo choo barely hanging on the tracks...the NCAA has to be wishing it had an anti-trust exemption about now....

 

Edit: i acutally thought they were exempt....but that explains why NIL exists....so of course now there are people trying to get an exemption like that passed so they can put the NIL genie back in the bottle again...

 

going to be an interesting couple of years ahead to see if some sort of peace can be had between two deeply incompatible interests...

 

anyhoo, sorry for veering off with this comment....just wanted to fix my initial screw up...

 

hopefully this can be a decent standalone thread somewhere appropriate...

Edited March 27 by tcp

[millerhusker]

Tony Perkins and Ahron Ulis were roommates at Iowa. The dude is built like an outside linebacker, has good athleticism and diced us up for 15 assists this year. Nebraska fans have recently become enamored with the stature of Texas A&M's guards. Well, he's bigger than all of them. 

[hskr4life]

CJ Departs.

[huskercabby]

2 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

CJ Departs.

This is all starting to fall apart!

[hskr4life]

2 minutes ago, huskercabby said:

This is all starting to fall apart!

We haven’t lost any of the core 4 and I honestly felt he was more likely to leave than Rice.  Would not have been upset if either stayed though.  Hope he can go somewhere and crush it his last year.

Edited March 27 by hskr4life

[cornfed24-7]

6 minutes ago, huskercabby said:

This is all starting to fall apart!

Nope, just the portal era...get used to it

[Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty]

5 minutes ago, huskercabby said:

This is all starting to fall apart!

Oh come on. He had a great January then reverted back to his inconsistent shooting the final six weeks. When he’s hot you can put up with his poor defense and dribbling. When he’s not he’s a major liability.

 

I’d much rather have a more well rounded and consistent player, even if his overall 3P% is lower.

[cipsucks]

9 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

CJ Departs.

 

Disappointing, but not surprising.  I'm hoping Williams, Mast and Gary are channeling their inner 1994 Husker Football team themes.  Unfinished Business.  I believe they are.

[Milk]

Hard to believe the roster has been cut in half (including seniors) in less than a week.

 

Current Roster (scholarship players)

Gary

Mast

Williams

Lawrence

Diop

Uhlis

Janowski

Frager 

 Hoiberg * 

[millerhusker]

12 minutes ago, huskercabby said:

This is all starting to fall apart!

No, it's not. So far it's all been expected departures. Just a week ago everyone wanted athletic upgrades at our guard/wing positions. There is no doubt that will happen now.