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One of the few positives of the new portal era is you can completely change your team if you are not happy with the prior results. I like Red's vision of how he wants to play. He may not have the success yet to get the exact players he wants but the players he brought in hopefully will take...

Is he trying to look as much as possible like a douche? I guess I'm officially old.

He even squeezed into one of Girard's jersey's for this photo!

I'm always surprised so many top high school players commit to Duke each year. Just looking at the number of highly rated players going to Duke they have to know several of them will not get significant playing time. My theory is those players either are either so self confident that they...

It makes sense to cut out the middle man of NIL - the collectives. Although colleges now have to say that they don't directly dictate how much NIL $ is paid to each athlete, they really do make the decisions. Just have the colleges seek NIL donations and allocate the money as they wish. It's...

I don’t think many players want the pressure of wearing the same number as Pearl, Melo or Bing for good reason. However it would be great to have another 15 soon…

Of course Mike Woodson is going to be spending big-time NIL. If he doesn't win next year he is likely gone. I'd spend every NIL penny available if I was on his hot seat.

Are you challenging property destruction happening or the $20k+ valuation? Many trusted posters have referenced the locker room episode. I assume Syracuse had to reimburse for damages.

Duke has many NBA scouts probably at every game. Malik will get a lot more exposure playing 20 minutes a game at Duke and is likely being promised to be used in a way to highlight his strengths. I hate to see him go to Duke but I can see why he is considering it.

My 11 year old son could have put together a more accurate list than this. Wow.

Good job JJ. Keep it up! JJ is a guy I can see making a really big jump next year by continuing to work on his shot form and improving his passing & defense. All things I think he's capable of doing.

Exactly. Just make a list of the schools with the top 10 in NIL money. A B1G head coach recently said that sport facilities and the school don't matter anymore. It's all about NIL.

Benny obviously has some anger and maturity issues but he is 22 years old. I hope he uses this new opportunity at UCF to make himself into a better person which will make him a better player. I sure wasn't the mature, responsible person I am now when I was 22 either.

Are you saying programs often strongly suggest players transfer or that players are basically cut from the team & forced to leave the school/portal? There is a big difference.

How soon until colleges fight back and say scholarships are only for 1 year terms and are renewed if both sides agree to return on a year to year basis? It's basically free agency every year anyway so colleges shouldn't be stuck with a 4 year scholarship if the player can't play at their...

Cal has to bring all of his assistants with him so they don't ever talk about any illegal things he did at UK. Plus Cal knows they can carry heavy bag$.

I hope UK gives all of that $4 million to Judah.

Any chance that Syracuse asks Leffew to scrimmage against our guys who are on campus while on his visit to get a better idea how he would fit in with the team and help determine how much NIL to offer?

Does the convertible in the back of this picture have an orange and white leather interior? If so nice! Still representing Cuse.

UK and Bruce Pearl seem like a good fit. I mean that because both are very unlikable.

Is there any good (or even decent) assistant coach on Cal's UK staff that could be the interim coach until the next hiring wave next year when a new hot coach will emerge?

It's time for UK to go back to each candidate that turned them down and give them a blank check. Begging may help too.

Hima seems like a really good guy. He was engaged on the bench cheering on his teammates and encouraged Syracuse fans occasionally by leading the LGO chants. It's too bad things didn't work out better here but hopefully he enjoyed his time at Syracuse and made the most of it. Good luck!

Maybe instead of this being only Red’s choice for an assistant, this type of an assistant was a recommendation from JW.

That shows you how much Kentucky wanted to get rid of Cal. Let him go for free to a conference rival.

If UConn is ahead I will have about zero interest to keep watching the game. If Purdue keeps it close or is ahead I will keep watching and really pull for them. Otherwise I'll probably just watch baseball tonight. I was more interested in the women's Final 4 than the Men's this year. I didn't...

It will be interesting if Cal decides to keep riding the large, highly rated recruiting classes to fill his roster with young players or if he will change & go all in on the portal (NIL$) to create the best transfer roster possible at Arkansas.

Rumors that the portal players Ark got were this year not paid near the amounts promised to them and they were not happy creating locker room issues.

JW didn’t hire a JB loyal assistant coach to just give him 2 years. Last year Red had mostly players recruited for JB’s style of play which is very different from how Red wants to coach & play. I look at last year as year 0 & this year as Red’s first year with a roster he chooses. Red gets 3...

The NCAA doesn’t care about a schools fans. The TV networks decide when the games will be played.

I wonder if Louisville was really interested but backed away from Pitino's son Richard because of the past issues when his dad Rick was HC. I'm sure there were some boosters that wanted Richard due to nostalgia.

When will college teams have scouting departments to follow other teams' players so they are ready to jump right when players portal? Maybe someone is already assigned individual player scouting on the staff?

Would Syracuse struggle to find a coach like this if we went outside the family next time? I wouldn't think so but I thought Louisville is a pretty good job too.

I'm surprised Byington only got the Vandy job. He was rumored to be a candidate at West Virginia and Michigan.

Hard to believe Ohio State hasn't made the Sweet 16 in over 10 years. Basketball schools Indiana & Maryland have not since 2016. That really hurts the B1G.

I completely agree. We need someone with new outsiders basketball philosophies to teach better man to man defense and improve and add new offensive sets. I'm sick of iso ball. Watching the tournament nearly every team runs better offensive sets with constant screening & off the ball player...

What are the chances Cal takes a lower buyout amount just to get out of Kentucky and get a fresh start somewhere else?

Grant is a prime example of the analytic types that say that an athletes prime playing years are 26-29.

Drews says Baylor has a better basketball history than Louisville?! Baylor - 3 Final Fours (1948, 1950, 2021) and 1 NC (2021) Louisville - 10 Final Fours (including the 2 vacated) and 3 NC (including the 1 vacated)

So Carey still can't play? Is it still concussion issues or did Carey have another injury after his concussion? If Carey hasn't been cleared to play, it wouldn't make sense for him to enter the portal yet since no school would offer him a scholarship not knowing when or if he could play.

No new coach has been hired. Utah St HC Danny Sprinkle is the rumored leading candidate. However, I don't think any coach would want to accept the job until an AD is hired so they know who they are working for.

So does Hop get his job back since the guy who fired him likely hasn't even unpacked everything in his office yet?

I think fans are impatient because we were told by insiders that Syracuse declined to play in the NIT because there would be 5-6 players entering the portal so quickly there wouldn't be enough remaining scholarship players to play any NIT games this week.

That's the hard part of the portal. Do you take early portal players that will come to Syracuse or do you wait a few weeks to see what other (and possibly better) players will portal after their teams are eliminated?

Recently the SEC decided to increase the budgets of their basketball programs and spend more on head coaches. They saw how much money conferences can make for sending teams to the NCAA tournament. It reminds me of the old Big East when many teams were coached by big name coaches.

Maybe getting the paperwork ready and everything lined up for entering for the NBA draft.

Bell just turned 21 years old. We all agree Bell needs to drastically improve his defense and rebounding to become a worthy starter on a good team. I'm sure he has been told to improve these things his whole life but he still hasn't done it. We have seen flashes of good defense, rebounding and...

There were several hints, clues and straight out examples of bad attitudes throughout the season: Benny being suspended in Maui. Several really bad situations happened in & to locker rooms. Several posters posted of Judah and Q complaining loudly & constantly to the referees and that the refs...

If you put together an all-time Syracuse highlight reel of fantastic passes & plays Q would definitely be on it. Good luck!

I wonder if his shot issues are more mental or physical. There hasn’t been an injury reported or hinted by anyone that I can remember. JT does have a very muscular build. Didn’t JT gain a lot of muscle last offseason? Best of luck JT. I never questioned your effort and always appreciated you...