Nojus Indrusaitis Enters the Transfer Portal

[Die4Cy]

The "solution" is to find and keep your core players. High school recruiting is used to try to find the next Lipsey, Momcilovic's. You take flyers on a few more high school kids, hoping they can quickly develop into a "core" player. You then supplement these core players with high quality transfers.

Most high school players won't be a "core" player. That's fine. When it is apparent they may be better suited in a different program, let them leave to pursue the playing time they need.

Covid and the door to the transfer portal being thrown wide open have really done a number on high school player recruitment at the power 5 level. But these things are cyclical. The Covid super seniors are all gone, and the portal will be full of players who put their name in but can't find a home. There will always be a need to recruit and develop young talent at a place like ISU.

 

[Clonelabdad]

Batemon, Toure, and Pleta are going to get run, imo.

Batemon might. I don't see Toure getting any play at all.

 

[Cyclad]

Good luck to the young man. I do think he's a P5 player, he's only young. If he gets into the right place, somewhere that plays pace and space like Freddy used to, or BYU does now, he's going to put up numbers, in my opinion.

This one surprised me. I think the kid is a player. I think he will have a good career somewhere. I wish him well.
I wonder if this could be a money issue.
Lipsey, Jefferson and Mommy probably well paid. Maybe the max we could give him was less than the market will pay.
Pure speculation on my part.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Only a few years ago you could count on top 100 players to contribute meaningful minutes right away. Every blue blood in the country was fighting for those guys. Crazy how much things have changed in a few short years.

Every one of those 40-150 kids should go to the MM+ level to start out and transfer up in two years but it's hard to convince an 18 year old to wait for the money.

 

[Jayshellberg]

Recruiting freshman is a risk/reward scenario. Obviously, it’s much harder to predict whether a freshman will contribute than a portal guy. However, freshman, on average, cost about 20 cents on the dollar compared to portal players. Since ISU does not have unlimited NIL resources, I think you need to still roll the dice on freshman and hope one or two pan out a year.

 

[CyValley2]

You should stop following and posting about college athletics. If you don't you are only an enabler.

IMHO, fans are not required to shut up and march in lockstep.

It's a ridiculous look.

 

[NorthCyd]

IMHO, fans are not required to shut up and march in lockstep.

It's a ridiculous look.

Lol! You are taking my comment way too seriously.

 

[3TrueFans]

IMHO, fans are not required to shut up and march in lockstep.

It's a ridiculous look.

After watching that I want to march in lockstep more than ever, looks cool as ****.

 

[brianhos]

This is the 1st year we didn't have a freshman play impactful minutes.

We still need dudes in practice.

Nojus lost his spot to a walkon.

We still need to recruit freshman.

The days of freshman playing are over. Coaches will tell them to go get experience elsewhere and then transfer for $$$. College sports are being destroyed in real time right now.

 

[ClubCy]

This is the main problem, how do you know things wont work out when neither side is giving the other side a chance anymore?

This is for anyone not just you.

What is your solution? Honest question, do you want to lose for two years while freshman and sophomore’s develop in hopes they do pan out and you hope you can win when they are upper classman(if they haven’t left for money already)?

Or use the portal stay old, stay good, and win?

Seriously, anyone who has a problem with the portal and/or how we recruit please answer those questions.

 

[3TrueFans]

The days of freshman playing are over. Coaches will tell them to go get experience elsewhere and then transfer for $$$. College sports are being destroyed in real time right now.

Well this is just not true.

 

[FinalFourCy]

The days of freshman playing are over. Coaches will tell them to go get experience elsewhere and then transfer for $$$. College sports are being destroyed in real time right now.

The days of keeping freshman that need a couple years are over

It’s like GMs and low round draft picks. Hope you steal a starter and contributor. Cut the ones that are misses.

Freshmen are for cheap upside. You know a lot more about whether that low investment will hit big after a year. Certainly after two.

And space needs to be made to keep playing the freshmen lottery

 

[CoachHines3]

This is for anyone not just you.

What is your solution? Honest question, do you want to lose for two years while freshman and sophomore’s develop in hopes they do pan out and you hope you can win when they are upper classman(if they haven’t left for money already)?

Or use the portal stay old, stay good, and win?

Seriously, anyone who has a problem with the portal and/or how we recruit please answer those questions.

If I had it my way, we'd just recruit the portal lol

 

[ClonerJams]

Batemon might. I don't see Toure getting any play at all.

Toure might be the most college ready of all the freshman. That said freshman are a crap shoot

 

[FinalFourCy]

This is the main problem, how do you know things wont work out when neither side is giving the other side a chance anymore?

Why is this a problem?

 

[3TrueFans]

I wonder if back in the 70's when the NCAA first allowed freshman to even play on varsity teams if people were like "this is the end of college sports!"? My guess is probably.

 

[FinalFourCy]

I wonder if back in the 70's when the NCAA first allowed freshman to even play on varsity teams if people were like "this is the end of college sports!"? My guess is probably.

It used to be taboo to transfer.

Imagine now thinking students should have to sit out or lose eligibility because they switched schools

Or that a school could deny a transfer in-conference

 

[ClubCy]

If I had it my way, we'd just recruit the portal lol

I hated all the winning we have done the past 4 years because there weren’t enough of our hs recruits playing.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I was hoping to having him stick around because I feel like his ceiling is higher than others that we've had leave. He just seemed like he wasn't ready yet

Plus, I had to put in a lot of time correcting my wife before she finally got his name right.

Spousal unit called him "appendicitis...)

For the record, though, I thought I saw his name mentioned several days ago as entering the portal?

 

[jbhtexas]

This. We have to gamble on HS players and hope that in the event they actually pan out they will be bought into TJ and Iowa State enough to stick around for less than what they could get by transferring.

The coaches from blue blood schools saying they are basically done with HS recruiting is indeed the right strategy if you have 6 mil banked to hand out.

*If* ISU has to gamble on HS players because of limited NIL and needs them to stay around for a couple of years, and those kids are stuck behind upper classmen, then ISU is going to have to give those guys some playing time throughout the year, or they are just going to move on if they are stuck on the bench. It is what it is.

I mentioned in another thread a few days ago that I have seen Bill Self do this a number of times...he puts young guys in for a couple of minutes before half time (one or two at a time, not en masse), close game or not. If you truly want to keep those young guys around, I think its something that has to be done. With the portal, kids with some skills and potential don't have to sit on the bench anymore. The exception might be if you get a guy who is going to college for a degree just as much for playing basketball.