2025 Transfer Portal

[MUbiz]

Purdue also lost a big to the portal, maybe Painter should have followed in Shaka's footsteps.

That is a massive upgrade Purdue got - lost a big, got a much better big.

[Uncle Rico]

i see Purdue decided to get a big from the portal. Maybe Shaka will follow in Painter's footsteps

Thanks

[muwarrior69]

I think your confusing donor relations with University policy. If MU has a small number of donors with the ability and willingness to fund a NIL bag drop, Shaka had better be damn sure he's only going to them with his hand out for true difference makers. The worst thing he could do is use those donors to fund a guy or two that doesn't directly lead to major success, or pretty quick we would no longer "have the money." Just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if MU's core donors feel pretty iffy on basically funding a one year bag drop contract for a player as it is, so Shaka would have to tread pretty carefully in the portal.

So, you are basically saying we can't compete with the "bag drop" schools. Yes, we are paying guys to stay, but those guys want to win, and if the best we can do is a sweet 16 run, some guys just may want to play on a team that can win a championship and go elsewhere. Will see how this all plays out in the coming seasons.

[#UnleashSean]

I don't understand why Badger fans act like there is something magical about being an in-state recruit. Freitag was from Minnesota. They act like it's on the other side of the world or something.

A lot of them haven't left the state. Not even joking.

[Billy Hoyle]

Michigan State is losing Tre Holloman (a significant contributor) and Gehrig Normann (a potential future contributor). They may not be the last leaving East Lansing:

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/1907091480960803218

[Pakuni]

That is a massive upgrade Purdue got - lost a big, got a much better big.

Using the portal to improve your roster. Imagine that.

[wadesworld]

Using the portal to improve your roster. Imagine that.

Shaka's incompetent.

So far Shaka has kept around all of his contributors.  Guys like Izzo and Painter who don't take many transfers but you're lauding for getting a few here and there have lost guys like Mason Gillis and Tre Holloman now.

So, the portal giveth and the portal taketh.  You can succeed in college basketball doing it multiple ways.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Michigan State is losing Tre Holloman (a significant contributor) and Gehrig Normann (a potential future contributor). They may not be the last leaving East Lansing:

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/1907091480960803218

I thought I read that this is the most together team Izzo ever coached.

[Billy Hoyle]

I thought I read that this is the most together team Izzo ever coached.

Money talks, especially to a guy like Holloman who has no NBA future.

[GB Warrior]

I thought I read that this is the most together team Izzo ever coached.

Were letters written?

[Pakuni]

Shaka's incompetent.

So far Shaka has kept around all of his contributors.  Guys like Izzo and Painter who don't take many transfers but you're lauding for getting a few here and there have lost guys like Mason Gillis and Tre Holloman now.

So, the portal giveth and the portal taketh.  You can succeed in college basketball doing it multiple ways.

It's wild that suggesting improving the roster is a good thing leads to hostility.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

It's wild that suggesting improving the roster is a good thing leads to hostility.

Your post was total snark. 

[Its DJOver]

The implication is that Shaka is not looking to improve his roster. History suggests that this is false.

[Pakuni]

Your post was total snark. 

But not wrong.

Shouldn't wanting an improved roster be something everyone can agree on?

[GoldenEagles03]

Meechie Johnson started his career at Ohio State and then transferred to South Carolina.

He then transferred from South Carolina back to Ohio State.

He now has transferred from Ohio State back to South Carolina.

https://x.com/CBB_Central/status/1907126063685099785?t=nLeacYZxmWDzWmNBkjl95w&s=19

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/1907127113284510162?t=ElFKxvixg6-1sp5zGvLwbA&s=19

[Pakuni]

The implication is that Shaka is not looking to improve his roster. History suggests that this is false.

Does it?
Last year he had a scholarship available to improve the roster. He chose not to.

[Its DJOver]

Does it?
Last year he had a scholarship available to improve the roster. He chose not to.

It does. Shaka has pursued targets via the transfer portal every year he has been here. Shaka also has kept all recruiting close to the vest.  If we land a transfer, I expect that we won't hear about it until it is done.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

But not wrong.

Shouldn't wanting an improved roster be something everyone can agree on?

Sure, but you infer that the portal is the best way to do that and it's a completely short-term approach.  You also don't account for the possibility that it might not work (see IU & Kansas).

Shaka has earned the benefit of the doubt, IMO.  I find it odd that a lot of people don't want to give that to him. 

And I say that knowing this upcoming season very well could result to being on the bubble. 

[Galway Eagle]

Meechie Johnson started his career at Ohio State and then transferred to South Carolina.

He then transferred from South Carolina back to Ohio State.

He now has transferred from Ohio State back to South Carolina.

https://x.com/CBB_Central/status/1907126063685099785?t=nLeacYZxmWDzWmNBkjl95w&s=19

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/1907127113284510162?t=ElFKxvixg6-1sp5zGvLwbA&s=19

Even he has to think this is weird... unless there's something like splitting time between two siblings or each of the parents' Alma maters I cannot imagine doing this and being taken serious... actually thought harder and even then can't imagine it.

[GoldenEagles03]

Even he has to think this is weird... unless there's something like splitting time between two siblings or each of the parents' Alma maters I cannot imagine doing this and being taken serious... actually thought harder and even then can't imagine it.

It is outrageous from both sides really. Hilarious from an outsiders perspective though!

[LAZER]

It does. Shaka has pursued targets via the transfer portal every year he has been here. Shaka also has kept all recruiting close to the vest.  If we land a transfer, I expect that we won't hear about it until it is done.

Who did he target last offseason?

[Scoop Snoop]

But not wrong.

Shouldn't wanting an improved roster be something everyone can agree on?

No one on Scoop has demonstrated any influence upon Shaka's decisions, but the tone of many posts, to me, sound as if delusion is widespread here. You seem to be certain of what an "improved roster" is and are desperately seeking validation from "everyone".   

[Pakuni]

Sure, but you infer that the portal is the best way to do that and it's a completely short-term approach. 

I haven't inferred this and have written just the opposite. I've said the roster should be built primarily with high school recruits.
But unless you're recruiting in the Duke ecosystem, there are always going to be misses, no matter how good of a recruiter and evaluator you are. And teams should use the portal to fill the holes those misses create.
Even Duke uses the portal to fill holes.

Like this time a year ago, there are obvious holes on the roster. Unlike last year, I would hope Shaka is working the portal to fill at least one of them.

[Its DJOver]

Who did he target last offseason?

Max Langenfeld

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=65586.msg1653067#msg1653067

IIRC it fell apart in the final hours.

[Galway Eagle]

Who did he target last offseason?

Well Coleman Hawkins said something on twitter that aluded to having had a talk with MU given how he responded to that "everyone gets paid the same" article