Class of 2020 C Eddie Lampkin (TX) TRANSFERRING TO SYRACUSE (4/2/24)

[Cusefan0307]

At this point wouldn’t it be in our best interest to match the offer?Sometime you just have to bite the bullet and overpay.

Maybe we should just tank and go all in for 25. I don’t see how we recover from this.

 

[sufan59]

It isn't family. It is Money. He got offered a lot more money at a Texas school.

Honestly I feel the worst for the other players who stayed put thinking they would be playing with a complete team which we pretty much were. Just awful for morale and hopefully the other guys don’t resent not testing the portal and get to work.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

I’m supposed to be packing for a trip out of the country but here I am, like the Dan Mullen thread at Thanksgiving, pretending to go to the bathroom.

 

[MSOrange]

At this point wouldn’t it be in our best interest to match the offer?Sometime you just have to bite the bullet and overpay.

Seems like it. But so far we haven't overpaid twice this offseason it seems. If not now, when?

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

What is going on here? Is this real or an overreaction to Instagram? Frankly, it’s unethical to commit and then leave the program in the lurch this late. But so many of these young players don’t have any ethics. The crazy thing is that a school like Michigan managed to land not one but two top 25 rated portal centers. So frustrating. I’m hoping this is nothing.

And St. John’s landed TWO top portal point guards. It’s an arms race.

 

[dasher]

At this point wouldn’t it be in our best interest to match the offer?Sometime you just have to bite the bullet and overpay.

I thought of that but what everyone forgets is taxes. 750k in Texas is a lot more than 750k in NY

 

[dasher]

What is going on here? Is this real or an overreaction to Instagram? Frankly, it’s unethical to commit and then leave the program in the lurch this late. But so many of these young players don’t have any ethics. The crazy thing is that a school like Michigan managed to land not one but two top 25 rated portal centers. So frustrating. I’m hoping this is nothing.

It's something

 

[dasher]

Maybe we should just tank and go all in for 25. I don’t see how we recover from this.

That doesn't get us a #1 pick. Being bad keeps you bad.

 

[Cusefan69]

So I would be targeting players invited to combine who are borderline to be selected and would push all money into a big and PG. Also look Europe.

 

[MikeSU02]

What letter plan are we on now with “Red’s plan” that I kept being told about when I was complaining about losing Maliq?

 

[Cuse181]

Embarrassing. But why would we expect anything different from a staff that hasn’t built a coherent roster in a decade.

 

[Cusefan0307]

That doesn't get us a #1 pick. Being bad keeps you bad.

It saves you money to go after better players.

 

[dasher]

So I would be targeting players invited to combine who are borderline to be selected and would push all money into a big and PG. Also look Europe.

Or to a kid to reclassify.

 

[JustPherU]

How many guys this offseason have pulled this stunt? I mean how many have committed out of the portal to one school and then backed out a couple weeks later and went to a different school? Just curious if this is a common practice these days.

 

[dasher]

It saves you money to go after better players.

Well, we just "saved 500K"

 

[littlereg]

So I would be targeting players invited to combine who are borderline to be selected and would push all money into a big and PG. Also look Europe.

Yeah this.

 

[Cuse181]

Or to a kid to reclassify.

Genius. Lose out on a proven player and then solve it by forcing a (likely) undersized kid to play a year early. If red does that then just show him the door. Complete mismanagement.

 

[Sherman20]

And St. John’s landed TWO top portal point guards. It’s an arms race.

And we have no arms apparently.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

How many guys this offseason have pulled this stunt? I mean how many have committed out of the portal to one school and then backed out a couple weeks later and went to a different school? Just curious if this is a common practice these days.

I think it’s happened more in football. A few players have done it to get around an SEC rule I believe.

 

[littlereg]

I thought of that but what everyone forgets is taxes. 750k in Texas is a lot more than 750k in NY

I’d also imagine even if we matched the close to home factor appeals too.

 

[dasher]

And yet football is able to spend money like they are printing it. Football drives the bus and if we want to be a player in the next round, we need to be a player in football but hoop is my favorite sport.

 

[dollarbill44]

It’s not. Football is just as “bad” but it’s working on our favor so it’s ok

I feel that just a couple of hoops players can totally ruin a season. It generally takes more football players to do so.

 

[MSOrange]

And yet football is able to spend money like they are printing it. Football drives the bus and if we want to be a player in the next round, we need to be a player in football but hoop is my favorite sport.

Sounds like the football alum collective is responsible for a lot of that.

Is Red not able to engage the basketball alums? Seems like that was one of the main benefits of the idea that we just "had' to hire an alum.

 

[sufan59]

At this point wouldn’t it be in our best interest to match the offer?Sometime you just have to bite the bullet and overpay.

The fact that the portal is closed for entry for the other players. This is very scum behavior on the part of the school who made the offer and Eddie taking the offer. No we should not endorse this behavior by matching after the portal has been closed for entry for the other players. This sounds like tampering to the most extreme. Please tell me this isn’t real lol.

 

[dasher]

Sounds like the football alum collective is responsible for a lot of that.

Is Red not able to engage the basketball alums? Seems like that was one of the main benefits of the idea that we just "had' to hire an alum.

There aren't as many successful hoop guys. The last 10 years have not been great ones. We need to do better in the hoops collective. The problem is the school doesn't really help. They think money that goes to the collective is money they don't get.