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Danny Wolf: Transfer target?

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YearoftheHusky said:
Really weird thread for a guy who isn’t even linked to us in any capacity.
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I don't find it weird at all. There's a freakishly talented player suiting up 25 minutes from my front door.

We have a thread full of people bragging how stupid they are as I type this. I'd consider a thread on a local player pretty on-topic, all things considered.
 
husky429 said:
I don't find it weird at all. There's a freakishly talented player suiting up 25 minutes from my front door.

We have a thread full of people bragging how stupid they are as I type this. I'd consider a thread on a local player pretty on-topic, all things considered.
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Couldn't agree more. We come on this yard to shoot our mouths off and talk about the best pizza, which animal we can beat up, how stupid we are and how we are gonna chuck cutters with players like Adam Sanogo, Clingman and rec-league kid. So, almost nothing is off limits especially a kid who is 25 minutes away from the best coach in college basketball.
 
Just did a quick Verbal Commits search and in the 2023 portal, 22 of the 25 transfers who left the Ivy League were grad transfers (the Ivy does not allow grad students to play sports).

The only underclassman of substance is GW transfer Garrett Johnson, who's now starting as a redshirt freshman.

The other two were out-of-rotation guys who transferred to other high academia schools (Harvard's Samuel Silverstein to NYU; Penn's Gus Larson to Cal).

It's not impossible, but it's incredibly rare when non-grad transfers leave the Ivy early.

Personally, I don't see a reason for Wolf to transfer from Yale. It's a consistent top-100 team in a competitive conference with one of the best coaches in the nation. They also play a style that suits his development: Jones lets him do his thing on offense and then his tough, heady defensive system will work on Wolf's weaker points on that end.

Just conjecture, but my guess is the only way Wolf doesn't play four years at Yale is if he fast-tracks his degree and graduates in three years.

That being said, Wolf is an NBA player. Right now, I see a lot of Luke Kornet in his game, but Wolf's offensive game is already ahead of Kornet's back when he was a sophomore at Vanderbilt.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Just did a quick Verbal Commits search and in the 2023 portal, 22 of the 25 transfers who left the Ivy League were grad transfers (the Ivy does not allow grad students to play sports).

The only underclassman of substance is GW transfer Garrett Johnson, who's now starting as a redshirt freshman.

The other two were out-of-rotation guys who transferred to other high academia schools (Harvard's Samuel Silverstein to NYU; Penn's Gus Larson to Cal).

It's not impossible, but it's incredibly rare when non-grad transfers leave the Ivy early.

Personally, I don't see a reason for Wolf to transfer from Yale. It's a consistent top-100 team in a competitive conference with one of the best coaches in the nation. They also play a style that suits his development: Jones lets him do his thing on offense and then his tough, heady defensive system will work on Wolf's weaker points on that end.

Just conjecture, but my guess is the only way Wolf doesn't play four years at Yale is if he fast-tracks his degree and graduates in three years.

That being said, Wolf is an NBA player. Right now, I see a lot of Luke Kornet in his game, but Wolf's offensive game is already ahead of Kornet's back when he was a sophomore at Vanderbilt.
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Actually Silverstein is staying at Harvard (and not playing basketball) this year to complete his undergrad degree and then will play at NYU in the 2024-25 season as a grad student. Established pipeline to NYU from Harvard after Spencer Freedman, who has become a D3 stud.
 
Scot-e said:
Kansas will offer him 500k last minute or an $EC school. But we can dream.
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I have to laugh at Kansas. They can throw all the money bags they want as they plummet in the rankings. It depends what Dan Wolf wants. The money or improving his game for the next level and contributing to another natty. Doesn’t look like the Kansas, Duke, NC and Kentucky Daddy Warbuck mentality is working too well.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
Personally, I don't see a reason for Wolf to transfer from Yale. It's a consistent top-100 team in a competitive conference with one of the best coaches in the nation.
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The reason would be to play for the best, compete against the best competition, and to play for a championship.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Just did a quick Verbal Commits search and in the 2023 portal, 22 of the 25 transfers who left the Ivy League were grad transfers (the Ivy does not allow grad students to play sports).

The only underclassman of substance is GW transfer Garrett Johnson, who's now starting as a redshirt freshman.

The other two were out-of-rotation guys who transferred to other high academia schools (Harvard's Samuel Silverstein to NYU; Penn's Gus Larson to Cal).

It's not impossible, but it's incredibly rare when non-grad transfers leave the Ivy early.

Personally, I don't see a reason for Wolf to transfer from Yale. It's a consistent top-100 team in a competitive conference with one of the best coaches in the nation. They also play a style that suits his development: Jones lets him do his thing on offense and then his tough, heady defensive system will work on Wolf's weaker points on that end.

Just conjecture, but my guess is the only way Wolf doesn't play four years at Yale is if he fast-tracks his degree and graduates in three years.

That being said, Wolf is an NBA player. Right now, I see a lot of Luke Kornet in his game, but Wolf's offensive game is already ahead of Kornet's back when he was a sophomore at Vanderbilt.
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Were any of those transfers at Wolfe's level? The kid is freakishly talented. Honest question... I don't know amythong about them.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Actually Silverstein is staying at Harvard (and not playing basketball) this year to complete his undergrad degree and then will play at NYU in the 2024-25 season as a grad student. Established pipeline to NYU from Harvard after Spencer Freedman, who has become a D3 stud.
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Why would anyone transfer from a D1 school to D3 for their grad year? Sure NYU is a great academic school, but there are plenty of great D1 academic schools too.
 
FearThePups said:
I have to laugh at Kansas. They can throw all the money bags they want as they plummet in the rankings. It depends what Dan Wolf wants. The money or improving his game for the next level and contributing to another natty. Doesn’t look like the Kansas, Duke, NC and Kentucky Daddy Warbuck mentality is working too well.
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KU has a top 10 player coming in at C next year. They won't be in on Wolf. Duke probably won't either with Pat N coming in. Kentucky also has a top 10 player at C coming in. UNC probably needs a center.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Why would anyone transfer from a D1 school to D3 for their grad year? Sure NYU is a great academic school, but there are plenty of great D1 academic schools too.
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Because the kid was a non rotation player on Harvard’s roster. This is not a kid going pro. He’s a kid who wants to get run and attend a grad program in a city where he can network for career opportunities. Thus, NYU.
 
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I was a bit skeptical about the value of an Ivy League degree for an athlete versus a non-athlete, since intuitively it might be slightly devalued by employers. My intuition was completely wrong:

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karstenkibbe said:
Because the kid was a non rotation player on Harvard’s roster. This is not a kid going pro. He’s a kid who wants to get run and attend a grad program in a city where he can network for career opportunities. Thus, NYU.
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I pulled him up. Both Wolf and Silverstein are from Glencoe, Illinois. Silverstein went to New Trier and Wolf went to Lake Forest Academy and then they both went to Northfield Mount Herman. Two Jewish kids from the same town who went to the same New England Prep school and then Ivy League. Wolf seems like he would be a perfect fit for Hurley's offense.
 
superjohn said:
I pulled him up. Both Wolf and Silverstein are from Glencoe, Illinois. Silverstein went to New Trier and Wolf went to Lake Forest Academy and then they both went to Northfield Mount Herman. Two Jewish kids from the same town who went to the same New England Prep school and then Ivy League. Wolf seems like he would be a perfect fit for Hurley's offense.
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Did he ever overlap with Karaban at NMH?
 
karstenkibbe said:
Actually Silverstein is staying at Harvard (and not playing basketball) this year to complete his undergrad degree and then will play at NYU in the 2024-25 season as a grad student. Established pipeline to NYU from Harvard after Spencer Freedman, who has become a D3 stud.
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Good call. I mixed up Freedman and Silverstein as which former Harvard player is currently playing at NYU.

husky429 said:
Were any of those transfers at Wolfe's level? The kid is freakishly talented. Honest question... I don't know amythong about them.
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Well, I called Wolf an NBA player, so based on that standard, no.

Yale's starting big last center, EJ Jarvis, grad transferred to Florida, but then stepped away from basketball before the season started.

Of course, Ivy grad transfers Chris Ledlum (Harvard and then decommitted from Tennessee) and Jordan Dingle (Penn) committed to St. John's and are surefire starters there. Princeton's Ryan Langborg now starts at Northwestern and will have an even bigger offensive role with Ty Berry out for the year.

Brown's Paxson Wojcik was excellent in his last season at Brown, but is a bench guard at UNC.
 
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tuvent08 said:
I was a bit skeptical about the value of an Ivy League degree for an athlete versus a non-athlete, since intuitively it might be slightly devalued by employers. My intuition was completely wrong:

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Having interviewed both Ivy League athletes and D1 athletes for positions in my group if I saw a resume of a D1 athlete and Ivy I am holy crap get this kid in now!!
 
If he came here, he has the opportunity to be the best Wolf ahead of Dennis Wolff and the fabulous Enosch Wolf!
 
karstenkibbe said:
Because the kid was a non rotation player on Harvard’s roster. This is not a kid going pro. He’s a kid who wants to get run and attend a grad program in a city where he can network for career opportunities. Thus, NYU.
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Way better plan than I had in my senior year!
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
I've seen many fine movies a few steps in from Church Street.
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New Haven used to have Criterion Cinemas, a movie theater on Temple Street , not far from Church Street, but they closed down October 12, 2023. I only went once, but saw a movie there that I liked. Lots of smaller movie rooms than the larger cinemas, if that is the theater you are referring to.
 
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Improviser said:
There is a Wall Street in New Haven near Yale.

Ask Common Grounds and Wall Street Pizza. They would know.
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Or Naples for the old guard. I'm guessing they didn't keep the old tables - I've got initials carved there from the 70's.
 
Improviser said:
There is a Wall Street in New Haven near Yale.

Ask Common Grounds and Wall Street Pizza. They would know.
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Samoo said:
Or Naples for the old guard. I'm guessing they didn't keep the old tables - I've got initials carved there from the 70's.
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FYI: Naples/Wall Street Pizza closed pre-covid - 2019?
 
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