2026 Vols Transfer Portal Thread

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#5,978
MoCo_Vol said:
My point is Rick Barnes and his style of play doesn't really utilize them well. Hell in his entire career Barnes has only had 3 true 7' bigs... Mihm at Texas, Allenspach at Clemson & Uros here...

Chris Mihm who he inherited at Texas is probably his best 7' big and that's been it in his 3+ decades of coaching.
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Is it possible that his inability to reach the final four is due in part to his lack of bigs? All the final four teams this year had pretty impressive bigs.
 
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Vols410 said:
If you have five shooters on the floor, big guys like Edey/Mara get exposed on the perimeter. We’ve never had that, so Michigan/Purdue just park their bigs in the paint.

You don’t beat those teams with size. You have to beat them with transition and shooting.
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sometimes you do, sometimes you don't
 
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oldaaucoach said:
sometimes you do, sometimes you don't
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Yeah. I hear where you’re coming from. Just not in the “you need a big” camp. There’s only so many skilled 7-footers out there. Maybe 1-2 a year that really change a game. I don’t want a team philosophy that depends on that. I’d rather make Mara guard somebody on the perimeter and open up lanes.
 
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swchandler1988 said:
That’s what i meant, like hopefully they’ve played their flush and we’re sitting on a full house
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If we somehow land Tanner, Hill, Harelson, Juke, and Washington. I think that fills up the roster unless the other walk-on or Burg go somewhere. Do you think we plan on adding another big or is Harelson the other small ball big?
 
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Lankykong said:
I think 6’10 and fairly athletic is better than 7’ stiff. People get stuck on the 1-2 inches when wingspan can make up for it pretty easily.

In addition, power doesn’t have to come from height, guys built like a tank like Jalen Carey would be powerful enough compared to what we’re talking about
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Historically Barnes' best bigs have been 6'10" or 6'11" guys that are pretty athletic.

But when he's really had success it has been with guys like Jordan Hamilton, Tristan Thompson, Damion James... all 6'7" or 6'8" guys with some strength and a willingness to rebound hard.

His FF team was built with 4 frontcourt players, 2 that were 6'8" and 2 that were 6'9" the heaviest one was Klotz at 245lbs
 
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All Vol! said:
One perhaps over simplified theory I have of why Tanner hasn't made a move is that I'm remembering @Stoerner Fumbles sharing that he has expressed a keen interest in what kind of roster he'd be surrounded by in Knoxville. Maybe commitments from Haralson and Hill Jr. in addition to our already top 3 portal class could get him over the top?
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I do think this could be part of it...and honestly this is one of the quickest portals I've seen us land guys.

3 already with another likely happening tonight or tomorrow...now why is Juke stalling?!?
 
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oldaaucoach said:
Is it possible that his inability to reach the final four is due in part to his lack of bigs? All the final four teams this year had pretty impressive bigs.
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Your opinion is yours to have, but Rick Barnes isn't a 7' 260lb monster big coach...🤷‍♂️

My opinion is I'd rather the HOF coach build the roster around what he believes works best for how he coaches.
 
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GSPVol said:
Donning my Trippie hat, let's get Haralson tonight, Juke tomorrow then Tanner decides to lead this huge portal haul and enters the portal and commits Friday.
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Do you all remember 2020 when all we had to follow was football recruiting and we lined up a commit a day for like an 8 day stretch? Good times…
 
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Lankykong said:
I think 6’10 and fairly athletic is better than 7’ stiff. People get stuck on the 1-2 inches when wingspan can make up for it pretty easily.

In addition, power doesn’t have to come from height, guys built like a tank like Jalen Carey would be powerful enough compared to what we’re talking about
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We have not been able to stop a 7+footer in the elite eight the last 3 years because we could not out score, rebound or block shoots against them.
 
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All Vol! said:
One perhaps over simplified theory I have of why Tanner hasn't made a move is that I'm remembering @Stoerner Fumbles sharing that he has expressed a keen interest in what kind of roster he'd be surrounded by in Knoxville. Maybe commitments from Haralson and Hill Jr. in addition to our already top 3 portal class could get him over the top?
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That makes sense but maybe those guys want to know Tanner is coming before they commit. Chicken or the egg, so to speak.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
We have not been able to stop a 7+footer in the elite eight the last 3 years because we could not out score, rebound or block shoots against them.
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We couldn't stop Zach "everyone near me draws a foul, but I never commit any" Edey...

Houston had no bigs, and Michigan spanked us with a 6'9" Point Forward in his 6th year of college ball
 
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cncchris33 said:
I think if you surround Hill (as the PG) with enough ball-handlers and scorers, you can make it work. The one concern is asking someone who isn't really used to facilitating offense to become that distributor to your posts. We like to run those lob options for guys like Okpara and Aidoo. We recruited Rubin who has that same offensive profile. That is where he is expected to make his mark on offense (in other words, he's not a post up offensive threat). A true PG is more functional running offense for a guy like that. Can Hill transition quickly to become that?
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Brown did a pretty good job throwing that lob from the short roll
 
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