***Official 2024 Transfer Thread***
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MyNameisEhJeff. He has proven to be pretty spot on with his info.
He should have taken Minnesota last time even if he didn't love the salary offered.
For as great as Rob and Hasan were, I imagine the staff saw at the end of the year how much they were impacted by having bigs with no true offensive game. I'll guess they are prioritizing someone who can do some things offensively over a guy like Kyle, who has many strengths but has no game outside of 5 feet.
Listen to latest Williams/Blum podcast. Blum pretty much said "we arent Kansas". We arent paying for two starting 5s. Lipsey, Gilbert, Jones, Momcilovic, Jackson, Heise, Jefferson, Watson that is a big time 8 man rotation right there. That does not even include our three freshman. One of the freshman pop we are in business.
Yikes… not sure which neighbors has been hurt most by the portal this year Wisconsin, Minnesota or Iowa?
it seems Wisconsin will support their MBB program at least
Minnesota fans dont care about Gopher bball
and Swarm only gives like 12.5% of their funding to MBB
Zero clue what you are talking about. Just passing along what I heard. Blum word for word said "we arent Kansas" when referring to the William Kyle recruitment.
Deleted now but you are correct.. he said he was coming back twice lol
CW/Blum pod had the Jefferson/Kyle news last night, the portaller returning is the new news.
We are so lucky TJ turned us around when he did. It seems like it would be a very, very difficult period of time to be rebuilding in.
I actually think it would be a really good time to rebuild. You can get 10 new guys in the portal who have played college basketball before. If you can make them gell you got yourself a chance.
Agree. Teams with the right guy in charge will be fine if they have some money to work with.
I think it depends on who is doing the rebuilding. If you have deep pockets, sure. You can just overhaul a full roster by buying it. But for somwhere like Minnesota, you're in a tough spot. You haven't established a culture of winning, haven't had any recent success and the guys you do develop are going to leave.
I think we are in as good of spot as we can be by having a coach who can construct a roster, recruit and figure out how to get "bang for our buck" in the portal. Having competitive teams and a culture of winning and development is going to go a long ways in the transfer portal for anyone who isn't just going to the highest bidder.
Just buying a roster has built in issues. Where's the leadership coming from? How do you know roles when everyone is new. Infighting over accepting those roles. It goes on and on but basically it's about roles.
Oh I agree. As nutty as Hurley is he had a great interview to this point. He's basically said he's not recruiting transfers who are on their 2nd or 3rd transfer or just looking for money. So much of it is about fitting the culture/style.
