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2 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Ok and? The top schools will get good players and other schools good players in the portal. This has been happening for a few years now. 
 

No other team in the league returns as many key players and coaching staff (not saying that’s a good thing) as us. They should get credit for keeping Tejada and Williamson but are stuck with some ok and some bad players. Continuity should win someone games until March that it 

Saint Mary’s and Gonzaga are both  top mid majors.  One has NIL money and the other doesn’t.  Point is NIL going forward will rule the landscape.  
 

The almighty dollar rules 

53 minutes ago, TSU88 said:

DWill, Lowery and Tejada all played significant minutes last season. While I have no idea if Ndefo will follow suit this season, the expectation is for Embeya to be a plug and play, from day 1. 

Bigs usually take longer so I’d love to see Embeya from day 1 but I’m not expecting him to play the minutes our diaper dandies played in the non conference part of the schedule this past season.  
PS- Has anyone booked their flight ✈️ yet for Dayton on March 17th???

37 minutes ago, TigerFan54 said:

IUPUI transfer announced today on the website. Averaged 6.4 ppg and 3.3 rpg. Not very impressive stats. But of course PS raves about him as a “great addition” to the program. Sounds to me like a lot of other offensively challenged players we’ve brought in.

Maybe he’s George Hill 2.0 😉

It’s a money 💰 grab right now to land many transfers.  We have a budget and this kid assuming fell into that specific budget. 

I think it is a safe bet this kid works out for us.  We are due 😉

Horizon is a solid conference.  
This kid shot 62% from the field and more importantly 69% from the charity stripe 

👏

Who would have thought in 2024 we’d be seeing posts like these amongst college basketball programs.  Credit to Towson for retaining some of our key pieces.  
Crazy times.  Wish I could ask my boss for a raise every single year 😃

Coach Olszewski is 67 and still coaching 👏

Please!!!  For the name alone…. Can we do a quick snap raise 💰

11 hours ago, TuTigers2012 said:

…and..??

Trade Joel Embiid!!!

Not even all league 🫣

I think most college coaches hate this portal deal but of course they have to follow the current new landscape of college basketball.  
Safe to say these new sleazy agents love the portal and the havoc they can wreak on the sport.  Very disappointed in the NCAA right now..  this is so out of control now.  
 

30 minutes ago, TSU88 said:

I didn’t see this one coming. I assumed UNCW, being a basketball only school, with what I assumed is a passionate fan base, had deep enough NIL pockets to bribe White into staying, at say $50,000 or so. Assuming he leaves, I suppose it stands for the proposition that even a well funded CAA program can’t compete with the dollars offered by a motivated P5 school. 

As for us adding 1 or 2 players, I’m skeptical. Even if we do, are they going to move the needle? I doubt we can persuade any D1 player who averaged in double digits to come here. It may very well be that Holden, who we got right before NIL exploded, will be the last D1 portal guy to come here (maybe not forever, but then again who knows) who averaged in double digits at his previous school. So, that leaves us fighting for scraps from the D2/NAIA bargain bin. If that means more Sylla and Suliaman types, what difference does it make. I don’t include JUCO, as I can’t remember the last time we brought a JUCO in. 

What I find interesting is that if you glance at the players our assistant coaches are following in their respective twitter accounts, there’s a lot of foreign big men, which I assume is because foreign players are not allowed, under U.S. immigration law, to partake in NIL. 

 

 

 

Agents are now throwing these incoming HS players $200-$300k just to represent them.  
 

5 minutes ago, TuTigers2012 said:

If it means one of the end of bench guys gets replaced, the new player can have whatever's currently in my wallet (not much) in NIL

Isn’t it crab 🦀 season??  A bushel on my dime to the player’s family 😉

1 hour ago, mat1992 said:

At the moment, no. If they find someone they like who won’t cost NIL, they might make a move.

I’m not a fan of Prolific Prep the school attended after this young man left Riordan HS.  Yes they recruit a ton of talent but USF currently has a big on their roster from there who started at Georgia Tech and has been a mess since.  “Me Me Me” types. 

1 hour ago, mat1992 said:

Apparently looking at another big. Mor Seck from Hawaii

https://x.com/theportalreport/status/1783121229169430715?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

https://x.com/seckmor23/status/1780359810451664959?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

 Coming off ACL in January 

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/sports/2024/01/25/hawaii-men-s-basketball-mor-seck-knee-injury

Oh boy.  Riordan HS in SF.  
He was originally committed to USF and then a relative who was on the coaching staff left.   Definitely a project but as we know you can’t teach size.  Got some minutes for Hawaii 🌺 this past season.  If no NIL money required then sure go get em. 

Saint Mary’s the once solid respectable mid major has now lost 5 players due to lack of NIL funds.   Incoming freshman Sensley just got out of his letter of intent and I’m told getting offered $200k by an agent who will find him another school.  
Banging a drum here but maybe Towson’s approach right now to recruiting is the way to go considering lack of NIL money! 

Portal up to 1700 now.   May 1st ends.  Even without massive NIL funds many of these players need to find homes.  Mind boggling figure. 

Speaking with an individual highly involved with NIL & College 🏀 today. 
If players don’t live up to their NIL contracts with respect to their play on the floor they can be yanked quickly and we are seeing this in the portal now.  Players won’t disclose what happened but many have been dumped for performance which I get.  SEC schools now average $20-30 million in NIL reserves.  


 

No spots I know however what a cool name for Spiro to say 🎙️

32 minutes ago, mat1992 said:

Over $150,000

https://x.com/towson_taf/status/1781031142432583795?s=46&t=nScacl1TWT-KyOwj5stBaw

Credit to our head coaches for dialing for dollars 💵 👏🏈🏀

Now Saint Mary’s can’t even hold on to homegrown talent. Mid Majors are doomed. 

35 minutes ago, TuTigers2012 said:

Uncw adds another good player. 10-7 a game BIG from Niagara.  The rest of the CAA is playing for 3rd behind the hawks and cougars 

I had Ballo lined up for us and then he goes and signs with Indiana.  Told him no Mali 🇲🇱 restaurants in Bloomington but he didn’t listen.