I was wondering why there are no commits for this 2023 class. Kinda oddhttps://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/school/_/id/97/class/2023
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When you say buying whole teams what do you mean?If it continues I will lose interest in watching, some schools are buying whole teams like Texas in volleyball.
That’s insane. So we have Universities actually paying players, which was my trigger to stop watching. If UT is paying there WBB players $100,000, what are they paying their FB and MBB players? Fortunately it didn’t really payoff for them.Tennessee pays their basketball players $100,000 per year. Duke is giving their women’s team stipends and they had 11 transfers on their team this year. Texas had 6 players transfer in to their volleyball this past year. They were all the main players and starters for their championship team. This is going to be the trend, instead of recruiting high school kids they are just going to hit the transfer portal.
I can see getting one or 2 players from the portal but when you start getting a whole team that sends out red flags. The problem is they won’t be able to control it.
It is called NIL.That’s insane. So we have Universities actually paying players, which was my trigger to stop watching. If UT is paying there WBB players $100,000, what are they paying their FB and MBB players? Fortunately it didn’t really payoff for them.
Actually with the way the transfer rules work, smart coaches like Jeff have figured out that portal players have more loyalty to your program than high schoolers. This is because the portal players have already used up their one free transfer and must either stick around until they graduate or pay the penalty of sitting out a transfer year.Tennessee pays their basketball players $100,000 per year. Duke is giving their women’s team stipends and they had 11 transfers on their team this year. Texas had 6 players transfer in to their volleyball this past year. They were all the main players and starters for their championship team. This is going to be the trend, instead of recruiting high school kids they are just going to hit the transfer portal.
I can see getting one or 2 players from the portal but when you start getting a whole team that sends out red flags. The problem is they won’t be able to control it.
Excellent point. To bad CC and Morgan were grad transfersActually with the way the transfer rules work, smart coaches like Jeff have figured out that portal players have more loyalty to your program than high schoolers. This is because the portal players have already used up their one free transfer and must either stick around until they graduate or pay the penalty of sitting out a transfer year.
This change makes you do your homework more with high schoolers … you have to either recruit only high schoolers who have the talent to play significant minutes right away or find high schoolers who have potential and are willing to wait their turn.
That’s good news that he intends to recruit players from the portal with 2-3 years remaining. Sounds like sound plan in this environmentJeff mentioned this morning on the Deener show that he has a recruit on campus today with her parents. He said they flew back from Seattle on a red eye only to meet with this recruit Tuesday morning with just a couple hours to spare. He also mentioned that he hopes to sign 4 to 5 players out of the portal and that he’s looking for players that have 2 to 3 years of eligibility. After today they are in a dead period that runs through April 3 and then he has more portal recruits scheduled to come to campus on visits.
I don’t believe we will stop recruiting High School talent but he went on to say that in todays game, some of these kids will go to a smaller program and prove their value and then enter the portal. Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said that if you don’t adapt to recruiting out of the portal, your program will die. Recruiting high school kids will and is taking a back seat. They had 6 players from the portal that got them to the Sweet 16. And last but not least, if our NIL does not improve for WBB, none of this will matter. I attend all of our WBB games and know there is a lot of major money sitting in those seats. We need local companies getting involved or we’ll be dead.