2025 Transfer Portal Thread

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StickMan said:
It sorta drives me crazy when people do this. What are we basing this on? Unless you attended several practices, you have very little idea of his potential. And, even practices are difficult to form definitive conclusions. I have no idea - he may indeed turn out to be a total bust. But I don't recall him ever playing more than three or four minutes at a time, and that's just not going to be enough to make an educated assessment. You may say if he was any good, Barnes would have played him more. But Barnes has a history of playing the best players.
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#fixedit
 
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StepCross said:
This is not correct. They are very strategic with their pool of money. They paid a fair price for Gillespie but they didn’t have to overpay, for reasons. Carey was a moneyball get, the market value for him was much lower than our staff’s opinion of him. And that leaves wiggle room to spend elsewhere.

At one point the staff likely thought they might be able to get a value pickup in freeman—a d2 player in harrogate, TN. But his stock blew up, so now they’ll have to pay market value. Which they still might do, he’s a good player.

Also keep in mind we don’t even have a full starting roster. At the moment it’s Gillespie and two posts (Carey and okpara maybe). We would have had to pay for wings whether they were transfers or returnees—that’s the reality—so we have budget to do that. And we will have, every year. It’s not even a question.

This is also why this staff prefers not to get into bidding wars. They want to build a whole team, and they want to sustain success into the future. If Louisville overpays for mcneely, we move on. We trust our staff to find court value that matches or exceeds the dollar value, and we aren’t interested in torpedoing the front court (say) to overpay for one shooting guard.

And because of the savings, we are able to do things like make a competitive offer to ament.

Or to fill the wing and backup wing spots if ament turns us down.

We are not going to flashy-bid, but we will definitely compete.
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Take Nico and punt his @$$ and put the $$$ savings to a few BB players!! JMO
 
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VolterWhite said:
Calm down. Not like I demanded it that second lol. He can do it whenever. Or he can choose not to. Doesn’t hurt to ask…
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
No news this morning. Should hear something about Rice end of Sunday or Monday morning. We just have to sweat Freeman visiting Pearl. He said he wouldn’t do anything without consulting us first, but that doesn’t always hold up.
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We just had $2-3m free up, let’s get all these guys!
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Let’s be fair, you said that after the situation had gotten so bad that it was obvious where this was headed. You didn’t need sources to see Nico bolting.
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That is fair, but also things are very fluid with recruiting and NIL so I don't like posting stuff like the starting qb is gone if I dont feel 90% or better about it.

I know that NIL groups was freaking out about money when we was recruiting for basketball, said there is a large amount thats is in limbo.

That turned out to be Nico, which is now gone.

I'm just happy we stood our ground with the money.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Added Passmore & Hausen…


Point Guards:
Ja’Kobi Gillespie-COMMITTED TO TENNESSEE
Jordan Marsh
Barrington Hargress
Jaland Lowe
Silas Demary
Jayden Reid
Donovan Dent
Budd Clark
Jalen Jackson

Guards:
Rodney Rice
Gabriel Pozzato
Donovan Atwell
Lamar Wilkerson
Alex Chaikin
Brendan Hausen
Rakease Passmore
Malik Thomas
Sebastian Mack
Vyctorious Miller
Quante Berry
Jacari White
Josh Dix
Isaac McKneely
Adrian Wooley
Treysen Eaglestaff

Wings:
Elyjah Freeman
Nick Dorn
Lejuan Watts

Posts:
Jaylen Carey-COMMITTED TO TENNESSEE
Alvaro Folgueiras
Davis Bynum
Nehemiah Turner
Alex Steen
Jacob Cofie
Lathan Sommerville
Kaleb Banks
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I wonder if there is any interest in Ian Jackson from UNC.
 
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Milehigh_Vol said:
That is fair, but also things are very fluid with recruiting and NIL so I don't like posting stuff like the starting qb is gone if I dont feel 90% or better about it.

I know that NIL groups was freaking out about money when we was recruiting for basketball, said there is a large amount thats is in limbo.

That turned out to be Nico, which is now gone.

I'm just happy we stood our ground with the money.
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Assuming we don't drop part of his money on a portal QB... To be honest, I'd rather get depth in the portal, roll with Merk for this year, take whatever lumps we take and build for the future. And then use Nico's money to up the offer to Ament and Freeman and other 😂
 
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VolFan_stuck_in_the_901 said:
Assuming we don't drop part of his money on a portal QB... To be honest, I'd rather get depth in the portal, roll with Merk for this year, take whatever lumps we take and build for the future. And then use Nico's money to up the offer to Ament and Freeman and other 😂
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Looks like that’s not a great assumption, from espn story

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