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According to the Standard Examiner, 4 current WSU players are planning to transfer: Melek Gomma, Trevor Hennig, Edwin Suarez and Jace Whiting. I was excited when they signed Whiting, but he didn't really pan out. Since his new school will be his 5th, someone joked he has a summer home in the transfer portal. Losing Hennig, Gomma and Suarez will suck. Gomma led the team in rebounds, Suarez in steals and blocks.

Two questions: Why would players want to announce they are leaving before we even find out who the new coach is? What if it's someone they really want to play for? Second question, would they have left any way if Duft stayed? Or would more players want to leave if Duft was retained?

I hope they get the new coach hired soon so his staff can hit the portal, hopefully with some new Lillard money.
 
Tube Socks said:
According to the Standard Examiner, 4 current WSU players are planning to transfer: Melek Gomma, Trevor Hennig, Edwin Suarez and Jace Whiting. I was excited when they signed Whiting, but he didn't really pan out. Since his new school will be his 5th, someone joked he has a summer home in the transfer portal. Losing Hennig, Gomma and Suarez will suck. Gomma led the team in rebounds, Suarez in steals and blocks.

Two questions: Why would players want to announce they are leaving before we even find out who the new coach is? What if it's someone they really want to play for? Second question, would they have left any way if Duft stayed? Or would more players want to leave if Duft was retained?

I hope they get the new coach hired soon so his staff can hit the portal, hopefully with some new Lillard money.
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From what I’ve heard, the Duft firing had more influence on whiting and saurez leaving than Hennig and Gomma. Gomma had a really good season and could get interest from better programs. Hennig wanted more money last year and didn’t get it so whether Duft was retained or not he was already planning to leave given a solid of enough season this year
 
Yup, the trend is in this current college sports environment the mid majors can expect their brighter stars to be leapfrogging away, trying to land on bigger pods. 'Tis the way...
 
WSU now has 9 players in the portal: Saine, Gomma, Suarez, Hansen, Whiting, Hennig, Vartiainen, Paschal, and Moore. The only ones not in the portal are Grayson, Cutler and Tshilbo. That is insane! Montana has just 4 returning players as well, even with no coaching change. BYU is losing three including Robert Wright III, Utah is losing 8, USU is losing 5 despite their success. Something has to be done about this transfer and NIL nightmare, it is wrecking college basketball, especially for mid-major teams.
 
First incoming transfer announced per the Standard, Aaron Powell from Rice, transferring with 3 years eligibility. Was rated a 4 star recruit by ESPN. Didn't play much at Rice. Read the SA article, even included social media comments from Chris Paul and Jamal Crawford. Sounds like a pretty good pickup.
 
SE is also reporting a second transfer, Sir Marius Jones from New Mexico, 6-4 guard, redshirt freshman with 4 years of eligibility.

Does not look like any of the outgoing WSU players have signed on anywhere yet.
 
It will be tough to know how good these players are, but given the state of sports in NIL days, it’s more important to have a coach that can mature and develop talent since you basically have a new team every year. I’m cautiously optimistic that we are going to see some energy, enthusiasm, and more wins next year.
 
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