skrabukes

Yep. "One and done" has a new meaning now.

Osborn Mabry, Gall, (soon to be) Skogman, McDuffie, Washington and more don't equal that statement. Forever a bull.

It's nice that UB is now a minor league team for the "big boys"

Incredible

Only 1026 men's basketball players in the portal as of noon today. That's approximately 3 per school in D1. By that math, over 4 years, that's a full 12 man roster turnover without anyone finishing where they started, if this trend continues year in and year out. It's not even April yet, many more will be added before summer. Might get to 4+ per school.

Play to win 1 year. The next year will be a fully new roster. That's what the ncaa wants evidently. Development in house is gone. Redshirting for future gains must be gone too. Cuz they'll just leave, like Skogman.

Never seen that one, only seen the Snake film

Looks like Snake Pliskin to me. He'd be great. Hits full court shots under intense pressure!

A similar % of FCS as the football team.

Ridiculous

It's pretty close to the same win percentage as the basketball team, so not sure why I would think that it's a crazy high expectation.

At this very minute, I wouldn't disagree. I'll wait and see what the team looks like once August rolls around before making a more informed assessment. With the current NCAA and the ever changing roster, it's impossible to project year to year anymore. This very moment doesn't have anyone dancing around here however, men's or women's.

Not good

We need Leonard Tangishaka to walk through the door..

As far as I know, but there don't seem to be any rules that are ever followed or enforced. As long as $$ is made, those in charge are happy at the NCAA.

The one-time transfer rule allows athletes to transfer to a different school one time during their career and play immediately without getting permission from their coach or school. Previously, athletes had to get permission from their current school and then sit out a year as a penalty for transferring.

This is a big problem. Hard to recruit people in when you have your top returnee leaving and 0 starters. The big selling point now is immediate opportunity to play. There should be good players out there who want that, although I am far less optimistic now than an hour ago.

I'd fall over if she didn't follow her Coach. The Skogman news was a big surprise. Fair not going to Syracuse would be something beyond my scope of thoughts.

That's a big problem. Also is very surprising.

Shocking

Hawkins is just one person the the sea of thousands now. I don't like the portal, plain and simple. Just my opinion, nothing more. I feel that a good percentage of student athletes in football/basketball especially, look at their coach/conference/team situation first (and in some cases, only) and the school itself is an afterthought. While I'm not even necessarily opposed to that train of thought, if something goes wrong with any of those parts, it's hello portal. Others in the athletic dept (coaches, ADs, staff) do similarly though as well, so who am I to say anything? I applied to a school, got accepted, went to school/competed there, graduated. Transferring never even crossed my mind. That seems to be less and less frequent with every passing year recently. Again, that's not the athlete's fault, that's because the system doesn't care if it happens. How does Hawkins affect APY, if that's even a thing anymore, when he, or anyone else is at 2, 3, 4 schools? Are each of them responsible for him graduating, or just the first, last? Just wondering how that works. I remember that a lot of classes/credits didn't want to transfer from school to school. Maybe that doesn't happen anymore. I can think of a positive or two to it, and to each their own, I still am not a portal fan by and large.

Most of those 37% were not going to school for free however, after the school invested time and money into their (potential) development. Without having the actual data, I'd guess that many of those transfers moved closer to home after originally going away. In the past, the ncaa would grant hardship waivers, unlike now where it is essentially a blanket transfer waiver without penalty (hence encouraged). Nothing stopped someone from transferring in the past, they just had to sit out of competition for a year, they still could go to classes/practices, so they really weren't "inhibiting" anything, just putting a deterrent on constant movement for any reason that popped into someone's head.

The portal is so dumb, commit to UB, de-commit. Go to Bama, leave. Go to LBSt, leave. What a dumb policy that the NCAA has. I hardly blame him, it's the policy that is a complete farce. If they didn't want people transferring, they wouldn't allow it, but clearly they do. But you know, "student-athletes".

Wilson? If it's all of those, it's a complete reboot. We'll see soon enough. If that happens, it's UB playing in the ACC.

Surely the buyout will bring in some big names