2024 Portal Watch

[hhcmatt]

9 minutes ago, millerhusker said:

Hickman would be a good addition. However, he’s from Bloomington and all his family is there. Indiana did an in-home with him and he’s planning to go visit IU. I don’t like that he wouldn’t visit Lincoln until after the dead period now. 

 

Hopefully we aren't here to be a stalking horse for NIL negotiations to his dream school

[jimmykc]

KU lands Zeke Mayo from South Dakota State. (He is from Lawrence). Hopefully his teammate, Kyle, will be closer to home as well when he comes to Lincoln.  

[hhcmatt]

We have a top 50 HS senior in portal watch.  We'll see if we can get him to visit but for now we're just on the phone call list.

 

 

[basketballjones]

This probably belonged in this threat, not the JL specific one. 

 

My take on the transfer portal, is that most teams are basically saying, "we're going to fight to keep (pay, promise starting position) anyone who has shown above replacement value production." We really only have 3 of those guys on the roster. Gary, Mast, and Williams. Everyone else is very replaceable from a statistical perspective. 

 

JL (who I love and think still has massive potential) averaged 6.9ppg this year on 42% shooting from the field. On paper, you should pretty easily be able to replace a 6.9ppg guy. Btw, major props on JL for 6.9 on .420 shooting - HEY-O. 

 

Essentially, if you aren't promised to start and/or given a massive NIL deal, you're considered replaceable. Unfortunately, this really sucks as a fan, as we tend to get attached to these guys. But from a strictly "on paper" perspective, they're just numbers, and you should pretty easily be able to replace a guy who only gets > 8ppg. 

 

Losing guys like CJ and JL really sucks because as fans we've learned to love and appreciate them - but statistically speaking - we should very easily be able to replace them with non-tweener athletes with similar or better production. In theory at least. 

[Dead Dog Alley]

1 hour ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Shouldn't we be officially finished with the "extra year" upon this upcoming season's end?!

 

 

Nope.  But they'll be extremely rare.  It would have to be guys that were true freshmen in 2020-21 and then redshirted afterwards.

[Cookie Miller Wasn't Dirty]

6 minutes ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Nope.  But they'll be extremely rare.  It would have to be guys that were true freshmen in 2020-21 and then redshirted afterwards.

I still can’t believe they made that rule. Even at the time I thought it was ridiculous. Too many decisions are made without considering the consequences. Every high school senior in 2020-21 got screwed because the kids a year older than them got to redo their freshman years.

 

It would’ve been one thing if the 2020-21 season was actually canceled. But it wasn’t. 

[hhcmatt]

Take with a grain of salt about NIL as this is apparently what some coaches are relaying to a guy who runs a HS scouting service. 

 

 

 

 

[REDZONEDAN]

2 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Hopefully we aren't here to be a stalking horse for NIL negotiations to his dream school

I guess the question is, does he want to beat Indiana, or lose to Nebraska.

[OmahaHusker]

35 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

Take with a grain of salt about NIL as this is apparently what some coaches are relaying to a guy who runs a HS scouting service. 

 

 

 

 

 

KU has a reported NIL roster budget of around $7 million for basketball. It's stupidly massive. I think Dickinson got like $3-$4 million. Unreal. 

Edited April 3 by OmahaHusker

[HuscurAdam]

6 minutes ago, REDZONEDAN said:

I guess the question is, does he want to beat Indiana, or lose to Nebraska.

 

Hopefully they can get him on campus for a visit. Then when watching film make sure all of the cut-ups are from our 3 wins against Indiana. 

[Vinny]

AJ Storr: “So, I would love to bring my talents to Lawrence. I just want $1,000,000 to do it.”

 

Kansas: “I bet you do.” 

[49r]

10 minutes ago, OmahaHusker said:

 

KU has a reported NIL roster budget of around $7 million for basketball. It's stupidly massive. I think Dickinson got like $3-$4 million. Unreal. 

 

That's a lot of money to finish middle of the pack in the Big 12 and then flame out in the NCAA tourney.

[OmahaHusker]

Just now, 49r said:

 

That's a lot of money to finish middle of the pack in the Big 12 and then flame out in the NCAA tourney.

 

Preach. 

[Dead Dog Alley]

41 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

That's a lot of money to finish middle of the pack in the Big 12 and then flame out in the NCAA tourney.

 

Or, one could say, their worst team since 1989 still managed to win an NCAA tournament game.

[49r]

1 minute ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

 

Or, one could say, their worst team since 1989 still managed to win an NCAA tournament game.

 

Yeah, mostly because of the name on the front of their jersey they were gifted a 4 seed, about three seed lines above where they should have been.  And even then they barely managed to eke out a win over the 13.

[hskr4life]

45 minutes ago, 49r said:

 

That's a lot of money to finish middle of the pack in the Big 12 and then flame out in the NCAA tourney.

Maybe why they told Storr “nahhh”

[Dean Smith]

Didn't make the cut

 

 

[tcp]

After further consult with my non-existent peeps, I'm opting not to adopt yet another team where I root for the laundry, not the players. One's more than enough for me. 

 

It's time to just read amateurism as a concept its last rites. 

 

To (incredibly loosely) paraphrase Richard Nixon: "We're all NILers now..."

 

[Bugeaters1]

 

[AuroranHusker]

4 hours ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

Nope.  But they'll be extremely rare.  It would have to be guys that were true freshmen in 2020-21 and then redshirted afterwards.

 

6th yr. players like a Boogie, I suppose...

 

[Handy Johnson]

Bronny James has Entered the Portal. 

[Navin R. Johnson]

18 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

 

 

Anyone know why he was suspended this year? (for road games)  I thought it might be for misspelling Doug.

[49r]

12 minutes ago, Handy Johnson said:

Bronny James has Entered the Portal. 

 

[hhcmatt]

3 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

 

Anyone know why he was suspended this year? (for road games)  I thought it might be for misspelling Doug.

 

Academics related. Could have transferred to Arizona St but he should be good at KSU.

[Navin R. Johnson]

3 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Academics related. Could have transferred to Arizona St but he should be good at KSU.

 

I guess that would explain the road only suspension.