Big East Transfer Portal

[Kembacity]

I hope John Fanta is boning up on all his Euro languages to keep up with the play by play next season

 

[Husky68]

Been in general keeping up with NBE transfers in and seems like a lot of pluses. Good for league as besides UConn don't see lot of impact freshman coming in. Bottom 2 teams raise their status and top guys show out and will be argument that NBE is best conference in 2025.

Looked at one of those ESPN top OOC games threads where show starting lineups and most top teams have at least 2 projected transfer starts and some 3 or 4. Few freshman picked to start.

 

[ctchamps]

It's always been the case, there has just always been a subsection of fans that believed it wasn't the case.

When we got dinged for failing the academic compliance requirement this forum had a lot of posters blaming JC and the UConn athletic academic support system.

There were nine other schools including Cal Poly that were sanctioned. We were the only bb powerhouse however.

Those angry posters joining in the blame game were mostly intelligent rules based individuals that valued education.

Yet as intelligent as most were they could not place any value to the fact that universities were self reporting the grades of their athletes and ignored those of us that recommended they give that point some consideration. I wonder if they were shocked when the situation at UNC was revealed.

Kentucky got rid of Tubby Smith even though he won an NC because he failed to get top recruits. The squid gets hired and year after year gets the best recruits starting before he had success. Yet in spite of his NC at UMass being vacated for cheating and what happened to Tubby a majority of posters argued Calipari’s recruiting success was because of the Kentucky brand.

A booster was caught handing out upwards of fifty thousand dollars to visiting recruits at Arizona. The FBI gave evidence of money being given to recruits at multiple institutions.

A division 3 women’s field hockey coach gets fired because she paid recruits to come to her program.

Cheating has been going on well before the Chicago Black Sox scandal. Part of our species success is the ability to figure out ways to do things easier and better. Cheating fits that criteria. Fan’s desire for success, coaches need to supply that need, universities need to keep wealthy alumni happy are the perfect formula for cheating.

The only thing NIL has changed is it allows those individuals who support following rules to get involved in providing money to athletes. As a consequence cheaters now have more competition. And this means they will have to pay more than previously. NIL hurts cheaters. Cheating programs are likely to suffer in the long run.

 

[Palatine]

Calipers had a NC at UMess? Who knew?

 

[gsmooth]

When we got dinged for failing the academic compliance requirement this forum had a lot of posters blaming JC and the UConn athletic academic support system.

There were nine other schools including Cal Poly that were sanctioned. We were the only bb powerhouse however.

Those angry posters joining in the blame game were mostly intelligent rules based individuals that valued education.

Yet as intelligent as most were they could not place any value to the fact that universities were self reporting the grades of their athletes and ignored those of us that recommended they give that point some consideration. I wonder if they were shocked when the situation at UNC was revealed.

Kentucky got rid of Tubby Smith even though he won an NC because he failed to get top recruits. The squid gets hired and year after year gets the best recruits starting before he had success. Yet in spite of his NC at UMass being vacated for cheating and what happened to Tubby a majority of posters argued Calipari’s recruiting success was because of the Kentucky brand.

A booster was caught handing out upwards of fifty thousand dollars to visiting recruits at Arizona. The FBI gave evidence of money being given to recruits at multiple institutions.

A division 3 women’s field hockey coach gets fired because she paid recruits to come to her program.

Cheating has been going on well before the Chicago Black Sox scandal. Part of our species success is the ability to figure out ways to do things easier and better. Cheating fits that criteria. Fan’s desire for success, coaches need to supply that need, universities need to keep wealthy alumni happy are the perfect formula for cheating.

The only thing NIL has changed is it allows those individuals who support following rules to get involved in providing money to athletes. As a consequence cheaters now have more competition. And this means they will have to pay more than previously. NIL hurts cheaters. Cheating programs are likely to suffer in the long run.

Calipari had a Final Four appearance with a very good UMass team, but he didn't win a national championship with them.

The rest of your post about NIL is on point.

 

[ctchamps]

Calipari had a Final Four appearance with a very good UMass team, but he didn't win a national championship with them.

The rest of your post about NIL is on point.

Thanks for the correction.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Creighton adds a big guard out of Montenegro.



My guess is Neal (Arizona State transfer) and Zugic will battle for the 3 guard spot with the non-starter becoming the first guard off the bench.

 

[aceboon]

Was an early pickup in the portal, I haven't watched him play but the HLs look good

 

[HooperScooper]

Was an early pickup in the portal, I haven't watched him play but the HLs look good

Do highlights of anyone look bad? Lol

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Was an early pickup in the portal, I haven't watched him play but the HLs look good

Got the chance to watch Brickus play in person last year when I covered La Salle at Fordham.

Played a combo guard role alongside Khalil Brantley and is most dangerous as a distributor off penetration. Shifts gears nicely and controls the pace. Excellent perimeter shooter too. Strong build for a shorter guard but will be a defensive liability, at times.

 

[Tiamat7]

Been in general keeping up with NBE transfers in and seems like a lot of pluses. Good for league as besides UConn don't see lot of impact freshman coming in. Bottom 2 teams raise their status and top guys show out and will be argument that NBE is best conference in 2025.

Looked at one of those ESPN top OOC games threads where show starting lineups and most top teams have at least 2 projected transfer starts and some 3 or 4. Few freshman picked to start.

Somewhat pedantic, I realize. But still: it's really okay to just say Big East (BE) now. No NBE necessary.

 

[uconnfan68]

Cheating programs are likely to suffer in the long run.

Not in any of our lifetimes.

 

[mauconnfan]

Was an early pickup in the portal, I haven't watched him play but the HLs look good

Hmmm post up guard and Nova? Not unusual.

 

[Scrutineer]

Creighton adds a big guard out of Montenegro.



My guess is Neal (Arizona State transfer) and Zugic will battle for the 3 guard spot with the non-starter becoming the first guard off the bench.

There goes the three-peat.....................

 

[Scrutineer]

Not portal but a PG addition for Nova
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Plus he'll bring with him that famous Black Sea grit that makes the Bulgarians tough to beat...........

 

[UCFan1513]

Was an early pickup in the portal, I haven't watched him play but the HLs look good

He’s also playing for the guy who wasted the talent of Justin Moore and Cam Whitmore, so I’m not worried