2025 Transfer Portal Thread

[Milehigh_Vol]

Wonder if this will change Rice commitment...

Hate it for the kid.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

If anything that probably makes Rice commitment even more firm, less competition for PT most likely, clearly the decision wasn’t about winning.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Regardless of recruiting or basketball - that is awful to hear I hope Alijah recovers!

 

[Legion of Doom]

Yeah that is terrible news. Hope kid will be ok.

 

[Milehigh_Vol]

Regardless of recruiting or basketball - that is awful to hear I hope Alijah recovers

For sure, I met his dad his second year in the league, super nice guy really.

Praying for the family

 

[ChiPAVOL]

College sports are so much better than they ever used to be, and anybody who says otherwise is lying. This is the best drama since Battlestar Galactica.

Agreed. Transfer portal is like a real soap opera for us.

 

[i2amavol]

Unlike with Rice and some others this year, should we not be capable of outbidding our competition for Adams at this point? If so, we should be able to win on money AND playing time. No reason not to feel confident here.

 

[GoneViral]

not sure if I agree with this one lol

if anything this tweet proves how ridiculously stupid this sport has become

Embrace the chaos. College sports fans get exponentially more drama now. Just wait until a Heisman trophy winner transfers from one school to their mortal enemy. It's gonna be epic.

 

[CatFan4Life!]

For sure, I met his dad his second year in the league, super nice guy really.

Praying for the family

Agreed. Report I just saw said the induced coma was from smoke inhalation because the Cyber Truck caught on fire-- suffered no bodily injuries though. Makes me hopeful that he will be OK.

 

[VolOnthePlains]

Agreed. Report I just saw said the induced coma was from smoke inhalation because the Cyber Truck caught on fire-- suffered no bodily injuries though. Makes me hopeful that he will be OK.

Elon Musk, count your days you rat

 

[TrippieRedd]

guess we’re going all in on Adams

 

[nateernst]

guess we’re going all in on Adams

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I’m not mad about it… as long as we land him lol

 

[Derek Reese's jumpshot]

Agreed. Report I just saw said the induced coma was from smoke inhalation because the Cyber Truck caught on fire-- suffered no bodily injuries though. Makes me hopeful that he will be OK.

He also crashed into something and destroyed the truck. I'm going to guess he was driving extremely fast to do that. Honestly, that's probably the worst possible vehicle to let a kid drive and is borderline negligent. It's huge, insanely fast and powerful, and poorly built. I enjoy driving EVs (not the CT), but they are NOT for kids. Way too heavy and fast.

 

[Derek Reese's jumpshot]

I’m not mad about it… as long as we land him lol

I think I'd still like to see us really going after another 1-2 guys after Rice screwed us.

 

[VolHoopsInTheMix]

How does this happen if true? Why would Ky have so much more to spend on their roster than everyone else. Seems unfair imo.
They don't go past sweet 16 yet they get rewarded more money to buy a final 4? Why. I'd assume the final schools like Florida & Houston would have more to spend, even Duke + Auburn. And yes us the national college town of the year.

 

[Legion of Doom]

if you watched the SEC 16 podcast you would hear then talk about how the Cats overpaid for several guys. They have way worse shooting and their big portal guy has a torn ACL.

 

[T2P_Priceless]

How does this happen if true? Why would Ky have so much more to spend on their roster than everyone else. Seems unfair imo.
They don't go past sweet 16 yet they get rewarded more money to buy a final 4? Why. I'd assume the final schools like Florida & Houston would have more to spend, even Duke + Auburn. And yes us the national college town of the year.

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They don't spend on football I guess

 

[Chaz-Vol]

How does this happen if true? Why would Ky have so much more to spend on their roster than everyone else. Seems unfair imo.
They don't go past sweet 16 yet they get rewarded more money to buy a final 4? Why. I'd assume the final schools like Florida & Houston would have more to spend, even Duke + Auburn. And yes us the national college town of the year.

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Schools like Kentucky, Duke, Louisville care much more about b-ball compared to football and can move NIL money from there and focus on basketball. Same for Georgia and Ohio state for football.

 

[Legion of Doom]

Their roster is good and solid but no elite players. Honestly their roster looks way less scary from outside the arc where they killed us in regular season.

 

[VolHoopsInTheMix]

if you watched the SEC 16 podcast you would hear then talk about how the Cats overpaid for several guys. They have way worse shooting and their big portal guy has a torn ACL.

So I'm understanding that they are entrusted with over 2x the amount as pretty much everyone & are horrible stewards of their resources? Still doesn't make sense WHY they get so much more than everyone else to spend on a roster. They haven't earned the right to more than double others pay in post season play

 

[bleedingTNorange]

How does this happen if true? Why would Ky have so much more to spend on their roster than everyone else. Seems unfair imo.
They don't go past sweet 16 yet they get rewarded more money to buy a final 4? Why. I'd assume the final schools like Florida & Houston would have more to spend, even Duke + Auburn. And yes us the national college town of the year.

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This is a really simple concept

 

[bleedingTNorange]

So I'm understanding that they are entrusted with over 2x the amount as pretty much everyone & are horrible stewards of their resources? Still doesn't make sense WHY they get so much more than everyone else to spend on a roster. They haven't earned the right to more than double others pay in post season play

I’m not sure you’re understanding where the money is coming from…

 

[dknash]

I work for the SEC and I put an extra 0 on Kentucky's budget. That's my bad. I'll fix it next year.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Bama On3 mod just said they aren’t recruiting Darius Adams…

 

[VolHoopsInTheMix]

This is a really simple concept

Bet so for those seasoned with nil knowledge. This is the part of cbb I don't understand rn so I asked - the amount of money a school receives to spend on their roster should be based on how good & successfully they are. Has the program earned that money?