2025 Transfer Portal Thread

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Grahamland said:
Rice is getting roasted in the comments on his Instagram post about USC.
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Commenting on recruits and players twitters and instagrams is loser behavior. Guy wants to make millions living in LA. Muss kind of sucks as a coach and USC not great but not going to fault him for picking money and cool city.
 
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Alright, last one, Blake Harper from Howard. 6'8 listed as a guard shot 40% from 3 and averaged about 19 ppg, only a Freshman. There are still PLENTY of options the more I look into it, the staff is going to get us right (talking mostly to my pissed off self about missing on Rice).
 
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nateernst said:
Alright, last one, Blake Harper from Howard. 6'8 listed as a guard shot 40% from 3 and averaged about 19 ppg, only a Freshman. There are still PLENTY of options the more I look into it, the staff is going to get us right (talking mostly to my pissed off self about missing on Rice).
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Creighton, OSU, LSU, or back to Howard.
 
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RyanWalkerPGH said:
Ultimately, with Miles/Chaikin/Gainey this feels like a Top 10-15 roster. With Rice, I think it would've been comfortably Top 5 and a true title contender.

Trying not to be bummed lol was hoping for a better team than last season to really make that Final 4 push.
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Probably outside the top 15.

Don’t have a go to scorer, and we need to see how Ament actually turns out
 
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RyanWalkerPGH said:
Honestly, you might be right. Even after Ament committing, I saw several preseason rankings with Tennessee in the 15-25 range.
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I’ll ignore all of the comments that follow, but honestly our roster as it stands is kinda like ?????

Gillespie…..then what after that?

We have Ament and a bunch of solid pieces that provide depth.

- We don’t know how Carey will actually turn out other than him being a hard nose guy
- We don’t know how JP will turn out coming back
- We know we’re gonna get nothing but defense from Okpara
- We don’t know how Ament will turn out and take to Barnes hard coaching
 
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I would think a lot of focus turns to these top 3 names, and that there will likely be some talking to agents behind the scenes to see if they can get a guy into the portal.

Alex Chaikin
Duke Miles
Jestin Porter
Malik Thomas
Rakease Passmore
Jayden Stone
Jaiden Glover
 
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TrippieRedd said:
I’ll ignore all of the comments that follow, but honestly our roster as it stands is kinda like ?????

Gillespie…..then what after that?

We have Ament and a bunch of solid pieces that provide depth.

- We don’t know how Carey will actually turn out other than him being a hard nose guy
- We don’t know how JP will turn out
- We know we’re gonna get nothing but defense from Okpara
- We don’t know how Ament will turn out and take to Barnes hard coaching
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Couldn't agree more. Just hard to see where your scoring is coming from if Ament hits a wall at this level.
 
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RyanWalkerPGH said:
Ultimately, with Miles/Chaikin/Gainey this feels like a Top 10-15 roster. With Rice, I think it would've been comfortably Top 5 and a true title contender.

Trying not to be bummed lol was hoping for a better team than last season to really make that Final 4 push.
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I’m sorry but what? Rice wasn’t even all conference last season and Ament is a projected top 5 pick. I just am not seeing how Rice makes us a title contender but Ament is just keeping us ranked
 
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hbvol1982 said:
Rice said he wanted to play for a winner, and go farther that MD did last year. USC had a losing record last year. Watch what they do, don’t listen to what they say. This was 100% about the cash…
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Wish a kid would be honest and just say they had the biggest amount of $$$ on the table and I took it
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
A tradition unlike any other…we’ll be lucky to even have a Top 25 team, wtf were Barnes and his staff thinking. Fast forward a few months, wow we’ve got a Top 5 team, I always knew we’d be good, I’ll be really mad if we don’t get a 1 seed this year.
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But it is moments like losing out on Rice and Freeman that prevent us from ever getting said 1 seed. I love how amazing Tennessee basketball has been recently and never want to take 2 elite eights in a row for granted. But we are knocking on the door of overcoming the biggest hurdle in this program's history, and I want us to go all in for the best chance possible to do so.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
I would think a lot of focus turns to these top 3 names, and that there will likely be some talking to agents behind the scenes to see if they can get a guy into the portal.

Alex Chaikin
Duke Miles
Jestin Porter
Malik Thomas
Rakease Passmore
Jayden Stone
Jaiden Glover
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I would love to have both Chaikin and Thomas from that group. Is that even feasible? Or is it 1 or the other?

Miles and Porter just don't excite me a whole lot. Stone appears to be a volume shooter. Lots of points on lots of shots. I don't know anything about Glover.
 
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