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I feel like if you enter the portal you hear from Texas. It’s like a scholarship offer from Alabama. 

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

I feel like if you enter the portal you hear from Texas. It’s like a scholarship offer from Alabama. 

Nah, Texas has appeared a small fraction of the amount of times I've seen Georgetown/LSU/Aggy get mentioned as showing interest, we only post the Texas for obvious reasons. I've actually been surprised at how few of players we're looking at

1 hour ago, Hornlover said:

That new #1 might not stay #1 for long. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcbH3gjOiw-/

Emoni Bates in the portal. 

Bates’ stock has fallen off a cliff, he is not the #1 transfer. But Antoine Davis might be and he also just entered the portal.

 

On 4/11/2022 at 7:55 PM, maninblack said:

Literally huge

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I’m watching SNL and Lizzo & Tubs are so big, I decide to scroll Surly and then I come across this guy.  He could be a dancer for Lizzo. 

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He was the Big 12 freshman of the year. Feels like the basketball portal has a lot more quality in talent than the football one.

Given the dynamics of the sport, working the portal well is going to be more important than high school recruiting for a lot of schools.

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Rumor is Nawf carolina for Hunter and they offered nearly a $1 million NIL deal.  If that’s true (pure speculation at this point), then schools like ISU are fucked.

Is this just now dawning on you, Pancho? This is the reason Texas had to leave for the SEC. The NCAA is going to be dead soon. There will be a new boss writing the rules. That new boss will be agreed upon by the big money schools. The schools in the Big 12 can't afford the new college sports landscape, other than KU in basketball, and even then they need to get to another conference pronto. 

There is no salary cap in college sports. There's no way to really even measure the athletes' compensation. It's the wild wild west. People are going to look back at A&M breaking the bank for their football recruiting class with nostalgia at how naive we all were regarding the future costs of putting an elite team together. 

Once the power schools break from the NCAA permanently there's going to be a 16 team college football playoff, and the men's basketball tournament will have a new overseer that will divide the money the way they see fit. There's going to be a lot more funding for non revenue sports. And the amounts involved will dwarf what we're seeing now, because at the end of the day content providers need live programming that people will watch in real time so they can sell ads effectively. I'd say three years from now, tops, if not sooner. 

Just now, texifornia said:

He might just not be all that good

 

Maybe, but I think it kind of sucks that he is leaving. I thought he had a decent role on the team.

6 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Maybe, but I think it kind of sucks that he is leaving. I thought he had a decent role on the team.

He saw the writing on the wall with the likely return of Carr and Morris coming in. He wasn't going to get much more PT next year than he did this year. Not to mention Texas reaching out to multiple PG/CG types in the portal.

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

He saw the writing on the wall with the likely return of Carr and Morris coming in. He wasn't going to get much more PT next year than he did this year. Not to mention Texas reaching out to multiple PG/CG types in the portal.

Yeah, he is being recruited over. I thought he was a pretty good backup though and played well enough in that role. He seemed to steady things when he came in.

You need guys like him on the end of the bench. He just doesn’t see himself as a guy at the end of the bench. 

2 hours ago, texifornia said:

He might just not be all that good

 

 

He's plays good defense, but it isn't good enough to make up for being a total non-factor offensively. I'm fine with him leaving.

18 hours ago, Teryor said:

 

I'm thinking Memphis or Houston but he would be a nice get. He can shoot the shit out of the ball and consistently get his own shot. Undersized and not great around the rim though. 

On the one hand Beard needs pure shooters as well as guys who can break down their defender off the dribble.

On the other hand Beard needs taller guards who can switch effectively.

My thought is he'd better recruit to defense first, because if he doesn't he's going to make everyone unhappy when he doesn't play them in the fall after they get beat on defense a couple of times. I watched Andrew Jones and Tre Mitchell both get limited minutes at times last year because they weren't defending effectively. Then Beard would make some mildly snarky comments about their defense at post game press conferences when they were featured players. It was always said in jest, but....

As far as Askew, I was hoping he'd stick around. I wanted to see how he developed. Also, the more players that return the better it is for continuity. Conversely, the fewer players that return the more it has to be created all over. I know Beard is comfortable with chaos. 

I'm also not sure why Carr is probably returning. Don't get me wrong. I'd be glad if he did. But what part of his game that will help him professionally (not talking NBA, more overseas) is he going to demonstrably improve at Texas staying for another year? 

It will be interesting to see what Disu decides. That will bum me out if he chooses to enter the portal. 

17 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

That will bum me out if he chooses to enter the portal. 

He's already used his free pass, so unless he wants to sit a year, he's not going anywhere.

Just now, Mittens said:

He's already used his free pass, so unless he wants to sit a year, he's not going anywhere.

It sure slowed down Askew.

26 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

On the one hand Beard needs pure shooters as well as guys who can break down their defender off the dribble.

On the other hand Beard needs taller guards who can switch effectively.

My thought is he'd better recruit to defense first, because if he doesn't he's going to make everyone unhappy when he doesn't play them in the fall after they get beat on defense a couple of times. I watched Andrew Jones and Tre Mitchell both get limited minutes at times last year because they weren't defending effectively. Then Beard would make some mildly snarky comments about their defense at post game press conferences when they were featured players. It was always said in jest, but....

As far as Askew, I was hoping he'd stick around. I wanted to see how he developed. Also, the more players that return the better it is for continuity. Conversely, the fewer players that return the more it has to be created all over. I know Beard is comfortable with chaos. 

I'm also not sure why Carr is probably returning. Don't get me wrong. I'd be glad if he did. But what part of his game that will help him professionally (not talking NBA, more overseas) is he going to demonstrably improve at Texas staying for another year? 

It will be interesting to see what Disu decides. That will bum me out if he chooses to enter the portal. 

I met a friend of his today. His friend says that he is happy at UT. I guess we will see.

Stats from last year

1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

It sure slowed down Askew.

I think Disu is looking at big minutes if he's healthy. Askew was actively being recruited over. 

Basketball transfer Twitter needs to be sent into the fucking sun

Mitchell at 4, Morris at 17, Brumbaugh at 90

13 hours ago, Teryor said:

Basketball transfer Twitter needs to be sent into the fucking sun

Final 11!

On 4/16/2022 at 10:21 PM, Napoleon said:

I’m watching SNL and Lizzo & Tubs are so big, I decide to scroll Surly and then I come across this guy.  He could be a dancer for Lizzo. 

I wonder if they do their Insulin shots before or after their performance.

19 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

It sure slowed down Askew.

Askew sitting out for a RS year, just resets him back to his original timeline. Disu RS'ing would mean he's played 1 season's worth of games in 3 years.

27 minutes ago, Teryor said:

Final 11!

Appreciate a big that shoots 80% from the line, also has Bishop range USG%. So doesn't demand the ball, could be perfect guy for rim protection and PnR.

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