2025 Transfer Options
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You also have TJ, Green, etc. to build around. He's proven that we can compete with high consistency.
I think we need 9 guys who we can play without drop off to raise our ceiling, so hopefully they can keep everyone that they want to keep and pick up 2-3 impact transfers (leaving 1-2 freshmen or other returners to fill out the rotation).
When this all started there was so much talk of this leveling off after a year or two. There has been ridiculous spending on college athletics for decades, its not going to stop.
Until they come up with some sort of salary cap or contracts that keep a player at a school for two years.
I think it neither good or bad, it's reality. Every player is a free agent, so we have pure capitalism in place. The market will determine a kids value and sometimes that market will be unrealistic based on a kids NCAA Tournament play.
I hope we can keep 100% of our returning core, but that is probably unrealistic. Maybe some guys will get crazy offers and maybe some guys feel they are worth more than the staff does. And maybe the staff is looking for a different type of player at a position.
I had to type it out to see for myself. I can't see any of the 4 I put in "returning starters" to transfer and I can't see Nate Heise transferring again. The rest is who knows. Based on BBlum's comment that the portal will be very active, I'm guessing we have 3 or more guys transfer out.
Gone:
Brandton Chatfield 33 F 6' 10" 260 lbs SR Orofino, ID
Conrad Hawley 23 F 6' 5" 220 lbs SR Raymore, MO
Keshon Gilbert 10 G 6' 4" 200 lbs SR St. Louis, MO
Curtis Jones 5 G 6' 4" 195 lbs SR Minneapolis, MN
Incoming:
Dominykas Pleta F 6' 9" 210 lbs SO Germany
Jamari Batemon G 6' 3" 170 lbs FR Milwaukee, WI
Killyan Toure G 6' 3" 190 lbs FR Wolfeboro, NH
Xzavion Mitchell F 6' 6" 210 lbs FR Oshkosh, WI
Returning Starters:
Tamin Lipsey 3 G 6' 1" 200 lbs JR Ames, IA
Milan Momcilovic 22 F 6' 8" 225 lbs SO Pewaukee, WI
Dishon Jackson 1 C 6' 11" 274 lbs SR Oakland, CA
Joshua Jefferson 2 F 6' 9" 240 lbs JR Las Vegas, NV
Bench:
Nate Heise 0 G 6' 5" 212 lbs SR Lake City, MN
Possible transfers:
Nojus Indrusaitis 15 G 6' 5" 200 lbs FR Chicago, IL
Cade Kelderman 13 G 6' 1" 185 lbs SO Waukee, IA
JT Rock 30 C 7' 1" 260 lbs FR Sioux Falls, SD
Likely transfers:
Kayden Fish 11 F 6' 6" 245 lbs FR Kansas City, MO
Demarion Watson 4 G 6' 7" 220 lbs JR Maple Grove, MN
Would be nice to add a rim protector/lob threat.
Make Cade our new CEO. There's got to be some NIL for a guy with that role on the team.
Hope we do everything we can to retain the starters + Heise, because that is enough to make us a dangerous team again, and really dangerous if we pick up two good transfers or a couple of the freshmen make an impact
I think Kelderman has the personality for that and has had the best instructor the past couple years.
I have my doubts they have the funds to spend.
DeVries wouldn't go to IC due to concerns with what the NIL commitment they presented him and he supposedly was the coach the donors were willing to spend for... They are less likely to commit money to a different coach who they don't know.
Starting from the bottom........Watson will be a senior. Can't see him transferring now.
Fish would be one that could. Although his brother also goes to ISU and where one goes, so does the other. I think his brother really likes it here.
Rock is a good candidate to transfer. Don't see him really being effective at this level, and has plenty of eligibility to play somewhere else.
Kelderman is going nowhere. Walk on anyway.
Nojus, like Rock I think would be one to watch.
Heise along with the 4 starters I doubt are going anywhere.
My guess is all 4 newcomers make it on campus.
So in this order:
Rock
Nojus
Fish
Watson
Those would be the 4 I can see not here next season.
I think Fish was headed to UNI last offseason but we offered him his spot back. Could see Rock and Fish both going there honestly. They’d be good MVC players
I agree but he also wants to play for Iowa State. He had other offers for lower level basketball but chose to walk on so he could be a Clone. He’s not leaving.
If only this were next year, in which NIL had to be FMV or at least sleeved through donations to the AD, and competing with football internally