The portal.
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@BeddieKU23 said in The portal.:
If he was healthy there would be more to talk about with him. Unfortunately, he came to KU early from the HS ranks still recovering from a major ankle injury, never got cleared during the semester and now has had surgery recently which is going to put him out another few months. So, we are talking about a player that has missed now at least 1 full calendar year of playing basketball and will be out until early summer. I think it’s just wise to say until he can actually play that nobody has any idea, not even the coaches. You’d hope he could be a serviceable 3rd/4th big next season but even that seems like a stretch. I’m not sure he’ll be a focus for the upcoming year. TBD I guess.
Yeah fair assessment and very well could be the case. Even if Tiller is the 2nd big on the roster I can see wanting to have a good rotation option behind him as Flory can be foul prone and don’t want to be left with just relying on Tiller.
I am hoping a backup 5 role is a reasonable expectation for him though so it allows us to put energy/NIL on shoring up our wing position over using a big chunk of that on a 3rd big.
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@kuballin10 said in The portal.:
Rumors we got Council and passed on Lee
I’m good with that - Council is the superior athlete
He, DP, Dawson, White and Flory is a solid 5 Self should roll out there but I’m sure we get another big and he finds a way to play two lumbering bigs who can’t shoot outside of 5 feet
They need an athletic wing and a good rim runner at the backup 5 spot imo.
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I would rather have a bruiser at the backup 5 for a change of pace. Flory and Tiller are already rim runners
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Bill Self baaaang
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Cedric Coward- KU has made contact. One to monitor.
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@MR11 said in The portal.:
@BeddieKU23 said in The portal.:
If he was healthy there would be more to talk about with him. Unfortunately, he came to KU early from the HS ranks still recovering from a major ankle injury, never got cleared during the semester and now has had surgery recently which is going to put him out another few months. So, we are talking about a player that has missed now at least 1 full calendar year of playing basketball and will be out until early summer. I think it’s just wise to say until he can actually play that nobody has any idea, not even the coaches. You’d hope he could be a serviceable 3rd/4th big next season but even that seems like a stretch. I’m not sure he’ll be a focus for the upcoming year. TBD I guess.
Yeah fair assessment and very well could be the case. Even if Tiller is the 2nd big on the roster I can see wanting to have a good rotation option behind him as Flory can be foul prone and don’t want to be left with just relying on Tiller.
I am hoping a backup 5 role is a reasonable expectation for him though so it allows us to put energy/NIL on shoring up our wing position over using a big chunk of that on a 3rd big.
I still think they need to get a legit backup big and then find another big body just to have as insurance purposes imo.
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So yeah. #1 player in the 26 class SF Tyran Stokes is visiting KU this weekend. He’s heavily considering a reclass to 25 class.
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Typical scenario this time of year I reckon , So many names flying in now makes my head spin can’t keep up. Sure sounds like Lee will either be at St Johns or Florida, I know St Johns thought they had him all wrapped up , did he cancel his trip here ?
Then I hear/read that Council looked like a sure thing for us, is that right ?- -Then I see about a guy by the name of Coward tell me who is this ?-- Are we really interested in him which sounds like from people he would be a nice get- -Are we active with him ?
Still need another back up for Flory
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Updated espn portal rankings for what they’re worth. 2 Outgoing KU players, one incoming. But having watched them play in Lawrence it’s an upgrade.
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Self is going to go out with a BANG
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Adidas bag man please. We would have two future top 5 picks with stokes and DP
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Always a little hesitant about expecting much from a reclass prospect in 1 year, but just saw it work out for Flagg and Stokes is rated just a small tier below that as a recruit.
Definitely sounds like a ceiling raiser though and makes this a pretty complete team with top tier talent/athleticism at the each of the G/W/C positions. Not going to say no to riding with that.
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You drop the bag for this kid. He would be a monster at the 4
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Obviously this is the kind of talent you do not pass on, but how does he fit with Tre White. Can they coexist at the 3 and 4 together?
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@SlimShaddy54 Yes we do. How tall is our TE from the football roster?
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@BeddieKU23 Thanks for the info, hadn’t heard, but the question almost becomes now who isn’t in the portal?
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@Zabudda Tink 6’6
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@wissox I haven’t heard whether you entered the portal this time after volunteering last year? Still waiting for that HCBS p/c, right? or are you holding out for a bag?
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@rcjhdraft Thing is is he Adidas ?
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Ewin committed to Arkansas.
Cowerd down to 5 including KU, if he comes back to college
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Cowerd, if he takes a visit anywhere could be telling to his destination according to Joe Tipton. He may already have a team in mind. We shall see. Also going through the draft process. His injury that he suffered early in the season sounded significant and reportedly was a 6 month recovery from November when he got injured. I’d like to say I’m not concerned about a dude coming off a major injury but then again we already got a few of them on the roster and you really can’t be fooling around with getting another guy that might not be healthy when he gets here
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My question is— Ig Council has really committed as rumored to be , then why nothing official on him
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@mayjay I forgot I’d entered the portal. That makes me exportal I think and means I can charge a tariff I think on my exportals.
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AJ Storr to Ole Miss for his final season.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 we’ll see what beard can get out of him. Should be interesting.
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Beard is notorious for allowing poor effort and bad defense /s
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Passmore and Griffen were reportedly visiting Miami today. Would be interesting if they both landed there as Miami already landed one former Jayhawk in the portal this season with Udeh.
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Some talk about Stokes on the Could be Wrong podcast , and was being said all of Stokes camp adamantly denying any possibility of Stokes re-classifying BUT like they also said
Sure feels like re-class coming- - -sure smells like a re-class coming with stokes not playing any AAU ball this year-- -Stokes taking visits, makes one think that umm ya there is at least a solid possibility that he is at least strongly considering re-class
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There’s been some good reporting that it’ll be hard for Stokes to get eligible academically by fall. Might take all summer if that’s the road they decide.
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I’ve seen KU make it happen for a football player I grew up with. I have no doubt they could make things work with Tyran.
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@BeddieKU23 said in The portal.:
Cowerd, if he takes a visit anywhere could be telling to his destination according to Joe Tipton. He may already have a team in mind. We shall see. Also going through the draft process. His injury that he suffered early in the season sounded significant and reportedly was a 6 month recovery from November when he got injured. I’d like to say I’m not concerned about a dude coming off a major injury but then again we already got a few of them on the roster and you really can’t be fooling around with getting another guy that might not be healthy when he gets here
He’s worth the risk imo.
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@TYOHawk said in The portal.:
I’ve seen KU make it happen for a football player I grew up with. I have no doubt they could make things work with Tyran.
Light work
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Boy seems like been a even more crazy off Season this year in the portal. Teams losing massive amount of players , noticing more in our Conference . I mean K/State losing so many- – again but that’s normal with them , but was surfing this morning and didn’t realize till I saw that BAYLOR has lost it’s entire roster ,everyone that played a single minute of Basketball for them last year is gone MERCY.
This NIL/Portal has really changed the landscape of College Basketball-- not sure if it’s for the good of the game either
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I don’t recall who, but an espn radio jockey was talking about college football and the portal. He said they better figure things out to stabilize college football with contracts - you don’t want it turning into college basketball where you can’t recognize a roster from year to year. It makes it hard on the fans when they don’t know who they’re rooting for.
Yikes. College basketball is the cautionary tale for football at this point. What a mess this is.
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Will be interesting to see how Storr does next year and compare his last 3 seasons with KU in the middle.
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Sooooo… we are all sitting on our hands, awaiting news on our portal grabs or even possibly having 2 #1 picks playing on the same team next year.
I read where most of the guys in the portal are still there. What a friggin’ zoo!
Are people in here optimistic or pessimistic on our current situation? Seems like there is plenty of negativity out there, but I’m usually suspicious of it being purple kitty trolls. They should be focused on their own transfer problems.
To me, it feels like we are in the running for some good players and Self is being more careful and refined this year to attempt to have a better result than last year. I’d like to know where our NIL budget sits right now. Anyone have a clue?
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I’m hoping maybe we could pull Coward in and also a quality back up still at the five behind Flory, /i don’t really feel all that firred up about Stokes, as I really don’t think in the end were going to land him. So not getting my hopes up at all there.
I think if anything Stokes is using his KU visit to set the bar as to how much it’s going to take to buy him to play for his year at some School. using Ku as a higher brand name to start the bar high.-- I’ve even seen in a couple of other places where BYU has they hand trying to steal another one with their NIL Money for Stokes.
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@drgnslayr All I know is there is a big push to get as much money right now before the ruling on NCAA direct payments puts a salary cap on it. Basically breaking the salary cap before it’s in place. More loopholes to come…
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The rumor about how much Zach Clemence got is WILD.
850k…
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Ha @BShark
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Council news to tonight
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Four more to go! Make em count, Bill.
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It’s official! Council is a hawk
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Lee committed to Florida
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How many years does Council have left? It looks like he has only played D1 ball for two years.
