2024 - Portal Tracker

[SanDiegoCuse]

I hope Red is involved here.

 

[Cuseball]

I hope Red is involved here.

It would be very disappointing if we are not. We are desperate and both those teams are not

 

[sutomcat]

I hope Red is involved here.

First two time CAA defensive player of the year in history.

He is a force inside on defense.

 

[MSOrange]

Patrick leaving dear old Dad

Iowa basketball forward Patrick McCaffery enters transfer portal

Patrick McCaffery will continue his college basketball career elsewhere next season.

www.kcci.com

 

[Cuse99&01]

Patrick leaving dear old Dad

Iowa basketball forward Patrick McCaffery enters transfer portal

Patrick McCaffery will continue his college basketball career elsewhere next season.

www.kcci.com

Not surprised. He has already been there for 5 years.

The youngest of the 3 brothers is currently a junior in high school. He has already said he wants to play for someone other than his dad and Iowa.

 

[Owens guy]

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?

 

[Meloyellow]

https://x.com/tiptonedits/status/1773087838130540718?s=46&t=eDLjugogFk76Y1T6Q9zU8g

 

[Sherman20]

I hope Red is involved here.

Both of these teams are still playing and are already involved with one of the top center transfers out there. Red needs to turn around the program fast and aim HIGH with his aspirations. No excuses about Duke and Carolina dominating the conference. We should be competing for titles in the ACC every year.

 

[DilemaCuse]

Both of these teams are still playing and are already involved with one of the top center transfers out there. Red needs to turn around the program fast and aim HIGH with his aspirations. No excuses about Duke and Carolina dominating the conference. We should be competing for titles in the ACC every year.

I hope hes working "stealth mode" as some posters say and not just waiting and waiting

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[Cuse2023]

I hope hes working "stealth mode" as some posters say and not just waiting and waiting

The "stealth mode" thing is just not true. No team comes out saying who they are targeting. What is clear right now is that we haven't been reaching out to that many guys. When these media outlets contact the players to see who they've heard from they aren't purposely leaving us out. Every player we added from the portal last year we were seen on the list of who they have heard from aside from maybe Cuffe but I don't think anyone even put out a list for him.

To me that could mean a few things. It could mean we have some guys in mind that aren't in the portal yet that they believe will be in the portal later. I think it also means that when you do see a list that we are included on we are serious about adding the player. When you see a team like Arkansas reach out to every single player in the portal, its literally just a grad assistant texting them because they averaged a certain amount of points or rebounds etc. Thats clearly not the approach we are taking.

To me its seems were being patient and deliberate.

 

[RyanCuse44]

 

[CardiacCuse]

It would destroy the higher education institutions.

doubt it...everything is for profit anyway...health care, education, etc

just the logical next step, imo

 

[OttoinGrotto]

The NCAA and colleges/universities have brought this on themselves because the revenue was sooooooo good and they didn't have to share. Zero sympathies. Since the 30s at least, they've been artificially maintaining semi-professional sports leagues with legally dubious rules and various levels of CalvinBall keeping players as more or less indentured servants because people are afraid of what might happen to the administration of universities where the mission statement is should be: educate kids.

Separate the revenue sports from the universities.

I agree fully with your main paragraph, and especially love the Calvinball reference.

:chef's kiss:

Because of that though I just don't see the institutions divesting from the revenue sports.

Is it any more "wrong" than fans essentially paying the players through these collectives?

Yes. It's wronger.

 

[BlackSquirrels]

Ja’Kobi Gillespie of Belmont committed to Maryland.

BREAKING: Maryland Terrapins land stud out of the transfer portal

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www.on3.com

That likely reduces the minutes they have available for other portal PGs, say someone like … Malik Mack

 

[Cuse2023]

Ja’Kobi Gillespie of Belmont committed to Maryland.

BREAKING: Maryland Terrapins land stud out of the transfer portal

.

www.on3.com

That likely reduces the minutes they have available for other portal PGs, say someone like … Malik Mack

Hearing G-Town is trying to make a big push for Mack...

 

[phil77]

My interest is peaked

 

[pwong]

Hearing G-Town is trying to make a big push for Mack...

They have some money to blow...

 

[Cheriehoop]

They have some money to blow...

Heard they had $5 million, true or not, I don’t know.

 

[pwong]

Heard they had $5 million, true or not, I don’t know.

Supposedly $3M for this year

 

[Cusefan0307]

The "stealth mode" thing is just not true. No team comes out saying who they are targeting. What is clear right now is that we haven't been reaching out to that many guys. When these media outlets contact the players to see who they've heard from they aren't purposely leaving us out. Every player we added from the portal last year we were seen on the list of who they have heard from aside from maybe Cuffe but I don't think anyone even put out a list for him.

To me that could mean a few things. It could mean we have some guys in mind that aren't in the portal yet that they believe will be in the portal later. I think it also means that when you do see a list that we are included on we are serious about adding the player. When you see a team like Arkansas reach out to every single player in the portal, its literally just a grad assistant texting them because they averaged a certain amount of points or rebounds etc. Thats clearly not the approach we are taking.

To me its seems were being patient and deliberate.

I do wonder if Estrella is the play. Red was his recruiter. The guys in front of him still have eligibility at Tennessee.

 

[Cuse4455]

I do wonder if Estrella is the play. Red was his recruiter. They guys in front of him still have eligibility at Tennessee.

He'd fit the bill, 1.9 PPG-0.8 reb. He just needs potato knees and we'd be in business!

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I do wonder if Estrella is the play. Red was his recruiter. They guys in front of him still have eligibility at Tennessee.

I think he'd help us a lot.

 

[Cusefan0307]

He'd fit the bill, 1.9 PPG-0.8 reb. He just needs potato knees and we'd be in business!

He’s got legit size unlike Patterson. He weighs 240 and is only 19. He got caught up in a numbers game behind veterans more than anything.

 

[phil77]

Would love this so much exact kind of player I would look for but Lousiville just hired his head coach right. :-/ Would imagine that is where he will go