2024 Portal Watch

[cipsucks]

56 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

I'd add Lawrence to that list. 

 

Great point. I was focused on the three that have one year left.  Those three return, it's Katie bar the door next year.

[royalfan]

3 hours ago, roscoe said:

Hurt us in 1st meeting with 15 & 5 in 23 minutes as starter and seemed like all those rebounds were on offensive end. 80+ days later he scores 2 points playing 8 minutes off the bench. Wonder what happened? He shot 60.9% from field, 40.6 from 3 (13-32 so small sample size and shot 73% fts. This worth kicking the tires on?

What happened was we had a game plan for the talented lefty that was working great but rolled his ankle and they went with a smaller lineup that we couldn’t defend well or rebound well against as we couldn’t keep anyone I. Front of us like our undoing down the stretch.  He doesn’t roll ankle we win that game.  

[Huskerpapa]

Sort of interesting that Frankie qas taking his unofficial visit to Lincoln today and Fred is out of town.  Perhaps their paths crossed at some point.

[B-town hoopsfan]

I wonder how tough it is to recruit the portal when your not necessarily looking for a starter, sure PF or SG/PG may be open but how hard is it to pitch a big or small forward to transfer in to come off the bench? 

[Swan88]

10 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Sort of interesting that Frankie qas taking his unofficial visit to Lincoln today and Fred is out of town.  Perhaps their paths crossed at some point.

Frankie’s visit is tomorrow: “A source confirmed to HuskerOnline that Fidler has locked in an unofficial visit to Lincoln on Thursday.”

[Huskerpapa]

4 minutes ago, Swan88 said:

Frankie’s visit is tomorrow: “A source confirmed to HuskerOnline that Fidler has locked in an unofficial visit to Lincoln on Thursday.”

Cool, that makes sense then.

[ShortDust]

54 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Sort of interesting that Frankie qas taking his unofficial visit to Lincoln today and Fred is out of town.  Perhaps their paths crossed at some point.

Thought it’s tomorrow.

 

Nvm I see it was already answered for ya. 

Edited March 28 by ShortDust

[ShortDust]

51 minutes ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

I wonder how tough it is to recruit the portal when your not necessarily looking for a starter, sure PF or SG/PG may be open but how hard is it to pitch a big or small forward to transfer in to come off the bench? 

You pitch competition, no one has a for sure starting spot locked up.

[Quiet Man]

8 hours ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

I wonder how tough it is to recruit the portal when your not necessarily looking for a starter, sure PF or SG/PG may be open but how hard is it to pitch a big or small forward to transfer in to come off the bench? 

Every position is always up for competition. 

[thrasher31]

8 hours ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

I wonder how tough it is to recruit the portal when your not necessarily looking for a starter, sure PF or SG/PG may be open but how hard is it to pitch a big or small forward to transfer in to come off the bench? 

Like others have said, competition. But I wouldn't be shocked if they look at a guy or two that didn't workout at their previous stop after one year similar to CJ Wilcher. No clue on who that would include, but a 3 year guy that can develop over those 3 years makes sense. 

[nustudent]

9 hours ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

I wonder how tough it is to recruit the portal when your not necessarily looking for a starter, sure PF or SG/PG may be open but how hard is it to pitch a big or small forward to transfer in to come off the bench? 

This is my concern about replacing Rice and Wilcher.

It's not that their talent is irreplaceable, but most transfers aren't coming in to be rotational players, especially talented transfers.

[ShortDust]

 

[hhcmatt]

We are in a significantly better place in terms of landing guys out of the transfer portal than we were last season. Hopefully that means we are able to land an even better group.

[Fullbacksympathy]

Fidler and Ewin would be crazy additions, and definitely possibilities.  

[hskr4life]

9 hours ago, ShortDust said:

You pitch competition, no one has a for sure starting spot locked up.

You can also show them highlights of CJ Wilcher in Jan/early Feb… or JLaw when he went to the bench.  For our team especially, starting does not equal “the most” playing time.

[millerhusker]

Pharrel Payne also in the portal now. Bummer for Ben Johnson. Two in-state guys leaving. They were looking to have tourney aspirations next year as nearly their entire rotation could've returned. 

[Norm Peterson]

23 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

Tarris Reed, Mich

Frankie Fidler, Omaha

Koren Johnson, Wash

William Kyle, SDS

JP Pegues, Furman

Tony Perkins, Iowa

 

OUT:

 

Keisei

Allick

Boogie

Ramel*

Eli*

Blaise*

CJ*

 

IN:

 

Janowski

Frager

 

I'm sure we've reached out to more than what's quoted above, but that's all I saw with a twitter search of "Nebraska portal." Ideally, I'd like to see us bring in freshmen and develop them over the course of their careers. In the era of NIL deals and the transfer portal, that appears to be an aspirational goal that isn't very realistic.

 

So, the second choice would be to grab a kid who's got at least 2 years of eligibility left and has demonstrated some development already. Problem with that is that competition for those guys is pretty stiff. Transfers with one year seem plentiful but our success rate with them hasn't been great. And, finally, Jucos are still a possibility but they've also been more miss than hit for us.

 

We've got a lot of spots to fill, though, so I'm sure the coaches are getting after it.

 

* = portal departure

 

 

[Huskerpapa]

1 hour ago, ShortDust said:

 

Has anyone heard the outcome of the investigation into his single car fatality accident? 

[49r]

1 hour ago, hhcmatt said:

We are in a significantly better place in terms of landing guys out of the transfer portal than we were last season. Hopefully that means we are able to land an even better group.

 

TBH I would be real happy if we could equal the group we landed in last year's cycle.

[Norm Peterson]

I'm hearing of another departure. Not from the rotation guys.

[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

Just now, Norm Peterson said:

I'm hearing of another departure. Not from the rotation guys.

 

Well that leaves Diop or Ulis 

[thrasher31]

6 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said:

I'm hearing of another departure. Not from the rotation guys.

Ulis would be my guess. Maybe diop if he wants a better shot at minutes. Ulis is my guess though

[millerhusker]

22 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said:

 

OUT:

 

Keisei

Allick

Boogie

Ramel*

Eli*

Blaise*

CJ*

 

IN:

 

Janowski

Frager

 

I'm sure we've reached out to more than what's quoted above, but that's all I saw with a twitter search of "Nebraska portal." Ideally, I'd like to see us bring in freshmen and develop them over the course of their careers. In the era of NIL deals and the transfer portal, that appears to be an aspirational goal that isn't very realistic.

 

So, the second choice would be to grab a kid who's got at least 2 years of eligibility left and has demonstrated some development already. Problem with that is that competition for those guys is pretty stiff. Transfers with one year seem plentiful but our success rate with them hasn't been great. And, finally, Jucos are still a possibility but they've also been more miss than hit for us.

 

We've got a lot of spots to fill, though, so I'm sure the coaches are getting after it.

 

* = portal departure

 

 

I believe we've reached out to Sean Pedulla

[B-town hoopsfan]

I am so bummed if it is Diop 

[hhcmatt]

10 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

Has anyone heard the outcome of the investigation into his single car fatality accident? 

 

I would assume that the lack of news about this means we're talking tragic accident as opposed to something like a DUI.