Basketball Transfer Portal '25

[red_n_black_attack]

Why would he want to leave? Dickerson is leaving. Fiory would have the starting 5 position all to himself on a consistently top 15 team. What is he unhappy about?

Maybe he was being paid last year's starting center rate and KU wouldn't give him a pay bump

[GoBearcats31]

We've contacted Tyeree Bryan, a 6'5 wing from Santa Clara. Bryan is the best player we've connected with so far. He put up a 5.9 BPM this year thanks to 43% shooting from deep, a solid 7% OReb rate for a wing, and a turnover rate under 10%. He's a low usage offensive player, but the metrics indicate he's a great glue guy.

Supposedly there may be something here. And it looks like he attended the same HS as Jizzle James for what it is worth.

[London 'Cat]

Maybe the NCAA opened up a can of worms that it is not really capable of managing with the portal system. I have no problems with names, images, and likeness (NIL) for college kids to make a little money. But the amount money that is being thrown around is insane. Also, NIL money is not intended to be pay for play. NIL money is all about college kids doing commercials, appearing in magazines, or having their name associated with some product.

However, it appears that college sports have indeed evolved into pay for play. With the portal system, NIL, and pay for play, college basketball rosters will gravitate towards instability from one year to next. Here is the bad part. The NCAA does not appear to be doing anything about it.

This is the understatement of the year, even this century. NIL is out of control, the transfer portal should not open until after the NCAA tournament and until those become rules, it will be absolute chaos. I said it before and I will emphasize this again - the NIL and the transfer portal are all designed to bring back the blue-bloods. They have the most resources available for NIL and players are going to the highest bidders at the blue-blood schools. The blue-bloods got tired of becoming secondary in the NCAA tournaments and want to quash the cinderellas to maintain control of the money generated by the tournament. Plain and simple, money rules. It's unfortunate and it has ruined college basketball and will do so in every other form of collegiate athletics.

[Gmann]

This is the understatement of the year, even this century. NIL is out of control, the transfer portal should not open until after the NCAA tournament and until those become rules, it will be absolute chaos. I said it before and I will emphasize this again - the NIL and the transfer portal are all designed to bring back the blue-bloods. They have the most resources available for NIL and players are going to the highest bidders at the blue-blood schools. The blue-bloods got tired of becoming secondary in the NCAA tournaments and want to quash the cinderellas to maintain control of the money generated by the tournament. Plain and simple, money rules. It's unfortunate and it has ruined college basketball and will do so in every other form of collegiate athletics.

It's not an aberation either that all top tier, blue blood programs are in the elite 8/final 4. There's no way tier 2 teams and cinderella schools will be able to make a deep run going forward. What a shame!

[zykarious]

Imagine if major league sports didn't have a salary cap and every player was on a one year contract. That's essentially what the NCAA now. Lower money pro teams overcome less money with cheap multiyear contracts on players they developed or trading away top players and getting value in return. In the NCAA, that doesn't exist. You get at most one year from a guy who may have taken multiple years to develop, before he can head off for much greener pastures, you can't stop him or get anything in return.

I think it's part of why we've gone so hard for Wes. Lower money teams need something other than money to entice players to come/stay. Culture can help with that and culture/relationships is where Wes excels.

Chad guesstimates that our NIL budget for basketball is 6 million, there are some players in the portal who are rumored to be asking for more than half of that. People say the NCAA has become a pro-league, but the pro leagues put a lot more effort into maintaining competitive balance. The NCAA has become the ultimate pay-to-win league and until that is changed, it's an uphill battle for whoever our coach is.

[red_n_black_attack]

It's not an aberation either that all top tier, blue blood programs are in the elite 8/final 4. There's no way tier 2 teams and cinderella schools will be able to make a deep run going forward. What a shame!

Fortunately we can regain our blue blood status

[Lobot]

Tipton just posted that we reaching out to Kam Craft formerly of Miami OH and Xavier. So far he's only scheduled visits to Dayton and Depaul.

[Lobot]

Justin Bodo Bodo is the portal from High Point. 7'0 rim protector in the Aziz mold. He has connections to Jaylen Stowe on staff at UC. We have not contacted him yet but I think we probably will

[longtimefan]

Imagine if major league sports didn't have a salary cap and every player was on a one year contract. That's essentially what the NCAA now. Lower money pro teams overcome less money with cheap multiyear contracts on players they developed or trading away top players and getting value in return. In the NCAA, that doesn't exist. You get at most one year from a guy who may have taken multiple years to develop, before he can head off for much greener pastures, you can't stop him or get anything in return.

I think it's part of why we've gone so hard for Wes. Lower money teams need something other than money to entice players to come/stay. Culture can help with that and culture/relationships is where Wes excels.

Chad guesstimates that our NIL budget for basketball is 6 million, there are some players in the portal who are rumored to be asking for more than half of that. People say the NCAA has become a pro-league, but the pro leagues put a lot more effort into maintaining competitive balance. The NCAA has become the ultimate pay-to-win league and until that is changed, it's an uphill battle for whoever our coach is.

I remember when the value of a college degree via scholarship was considered to be a good deal for athletes. It’s hard to imagine this current situation being fixed with all the competing agendas in college athletics. The NCAA no longer controls the game, nor does anybody else. How long before some team brings in a non-student just to play, then sues in court to overthrow the rules altogether?

[GoBearcats31]

Joe Tipton:

”Miami (OH) transfer wing Kam Craft has scheduled the following visits, per his agent Adam Papas:

Dayton: March 31st
DePaul: April 12th

Craft is also receiving interest from Clemson, Oklahoma State, Florida State, Rutgers, Michigan, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt, and others.”

[bearcatbret]

I am not sure this will eliminate all schools but blue bloods. In basketball, you just need a few really good players and a good coach. Since there are only 5 starters, a rich school can buy a team. The sad thing is that I would take a Steve Logan over any of our current players. Logan was the first pick of the second round and never made much after college. The college players are making more than they would playing at some level of pro status. I think that the system will at some point self-adjust back to some sense of normalcy.

[Gmann]

Does anyone on the forum have an estimate of where we rank in NIL budget within the Big 12 or is that information just not available?

[GoBearcats31]

Does anyone on the forum have an estimate of where we rank in NIL budget within the Big 12 or is that information just not available?

Chad Brendel posted this on BCJ in late January:

“Had some conversations on this topic today, so I figured I'd share how multiple sources around the conference see things based on what they know and have heard.

Tier 1

Kansas
BYU

Decent gap

Tier 2

Houston
Kansas St
Arizona
Arizona St
Baylor
Tech

Big gap

Tier 3

UC
WVU
TCU
Utah
Iowa St

Decent Gap

Tier 4

Colorado
UCF
Oklahoma St”

[bearcatbret]

Those tiers make me wonder. UC is in the bottom half and we are finishing football and basketball in the bottom half.

[sedz]

Imagine if major league sports didn't have a salary cap and every player was on a one year contract. That's essentially what the NCAA now. Lower money pro teams overcome less money with cheap multiyear contracts on players they developed or trading away top players and getting value in return. In the NCAA, that doesn't exist. You get at most one year from a guy who may have taken multiple years to develop, before he can head off for much greener pastures, you can't stop him or get anything in return.

I think it's part of why we've gone so hard for Wes. Lower money teams need something other than money to entice players to come/stay. Culture can help with that and culture/relationships is where Wes excels.

Chad guesstimates that our NIL budget for basketball is 6 million, there are some players in the portal who are rumored to be asking for more than half of that. People say the NCAA has become a pro-league, but the pro leagues put a lot more effort into maintaining competitive balance. The NCAA has become the ultimate pay-to-win league and until that is changed, it's an uphill battle for whoever our coach is.

Maybe the NCAA should borrow the idea of a transfer fee from soccer. Players would be free to transfer wherever they wanted, but a big school would have to pay a transfer fee to the smaller school. That would at least give some reward to mid or low major teams that find unheralded recruits and develop them.