Pounder said:
Just a note a bit off topic. Read today that 28% of current D-1 ballers went into the transfer portal after this season.
Not that the portal didn’t already affect Portland State and other Big Sky schools... welcome to the new world.
My EWU friends are saying 6 Eagle players are in the transfer portal and, according to them, all 6 are hoping to go to UP next year.
DI college basketball players do very little soul-serching. If they aren't playing, it is never about ability as much as it is because the coach (who once believed in you) won't play you, and if you go to a different system, then you can flourish and make it to the NBA. Or, as with the Legans hire, those kids you recruit will follow you wherever.
Show me any DI recruit who doesn't think they could play in the NBA. And if they end up not playing in the NBA, it is because their college coach did not use them in a way to properly showcase their abilities.