College Basketball Transfer Portal 2024-2025

[xuphan]

But there’s not yet a bunch of signings. One coach said, “the longer you wait, the better the price will be.” , when asked about the lack of signings.

Does make me nervous though.

I would be somewhat nervous as well. If we only needed 1-2 more guys in the portal I’d be more relaxed. However, we are basically rebuilding a roster in the portal and we have picked up 1 guard and no front court players. The longer the portal drags on the harder it will be for us to get top talent as competition for those players will increase. We all should definitely be a bit nervous with where we currently sit.

[XUGRAD80]

From my understanding there is also a dead period now for a week where you can’t do in home or school visits

Miller is on vacation in Aruba this week.

[Xville]

Nc state just got Brandon huntley Hatfield while playing in the ff. Weird. Thought there was no time for that lol

[Xville]

Josh cohen flipped from Arkansas to usc following the miss bus. For those thinking it’s all about nil, relationships still strongly matter

[MHettel]

Josh cohen flipped from Arkansas to usc following the miss bus. For those thinking it’s all about nil, relationships still strongly matter

Well, arguably he left Umass to exploit his NIL potential and found a coach he is comfortable with. I dont think its a stretch to assume that Eric Musselman had no idea who Josh Cohen was until about 2 weeks ago. Thats a hell of a bond those 2 must have.

Likewise, Townsend just entered the portal from Oakland where he had played and started 129 games and played for that crusty old coach they had that seems to be universally loved. I'd assume that there is probably a pretty close relationship between those 2 that is apparently not quite as important as that BAG.

[Xville]

Well, arguably he left Umass to exploit his NIL potential and found a coach he is comfortable with. I dont think its a stretch to assume that Eric Musselman had no idea who Josh Cohen was until about 2 weeks ago. Thats a hell of a bond those 2 must have.

Likewise, Townsend just entered the portal from Oakland where he had played and started 129 games and played for that crusty old coach they had that seems to be universally loved. I'd assume that there is probably a pretty close relationship between those 2 that is apparently not quite as important as that BAG.

Not saying money doesn’t matter, my point is relationships are still a determining factor. Cohen could have went to five other places that offered more or the same money, but chose to follow the coach he just built some trust with.

And, there is a lot of smoke that nil wasn’t very good at Arkansas and is why muss wanted out, so I don’t think cohen was offered much in the first place.

I guarantee with Townsend, he is going to have the Oakland coach help make his decision for him, just like the rice coach helped Quincy last year.

[Final4]

Josh cohen flipped from Arkansas to usc following the miss bus. For those thinking it’s all about nil, relationships still strongly matter

How do you know that? Maybe the $ at USC was better than the $ at Arkansas.

[Xville]

How do you know that? Maybe the $ at USC was better than the $ at Arkansas.

What I know is what is a fact, that he flipped because his coach went to usc.

I also know the rumor that Arkansas’ nil wasn’t great annd why muss wanted out. But cohen still picked Arkansas in the first place when had an opportunity to make more at other schools.

[MHettel]

Not saying money doesn’t matter, my point is relationships are still a determining factor. Cohen could have went to five other places that offered more or the same money, but chose to follow the coach he just built some trust with.

And, there is a lot of smoke that nil wasn’t very good at Arkansas and is why muss wanted out, so I don’t think cohen was offered much in the first place.

I guarantee with Townsend, he is going to have the Oakland coach help make his decision for him, just like the rice coach helped Quincy last year.

The tone of your original post was that Cohen is making his transfer decision based on relationship, not money. I presume that was intended to undermine the point of view that many of us have that NIL is driving most of the decision making and that the obvious imbalance between the NIL "haves" and "have nots" will result in a negative impact to whatever degree of competitive balance that exists today.

Then I dismantled your post.

So, are you sticking with that, or what?

In your follow up post you just make crap up like "cohen could have gone to five other places that offered more or the same money", and "relationships are still a determining factor." And then you mention that "NIL wasnt very good at Arkansas" which needs some context. Its not very good in the SEC to compete with Kentucky? Or its not very good in D1? Ill put it this way.....it's good enougfh to get a kidn that grew up in New Jersey and went to school at Umass to move to Arkansas.

And what is your point about Townsend exactly? Lets say you are right. The only point I can take away from that is basically confirming my claim that the relationship IS strong between Townsend and his coach and its the prospect of NIL that is having him walk from that relationship. and that was my point.

So are you just hedging here, or what?

[Xville]

My point is that relationships matter, nil isn’t the only decision maker that you seem to have suggested several times. That’s my point. Pretty clear not sure what you aren’t comprehending

Regarding chosen I’m not making crap up, it’s all out there. Muss wanred out badly. Pretty public knowledge.
Not sure what you think you dismantled. You are wrong here very consistently.

Just pass over the fact that nc state signed a dude. Oops goes against another one of your bogus narratives