I also think transferring because of a coaching change is one of the most understandable reasons to transfer.

Checking Kaiden Rice’s profile, as is my wont while we wait for his decision, I saw that DoBO Bollinger has started following him.

How about 6’6 Penn grad transfer Eddie Scott? He held an offer from Shaver’s staff; I remember he committed to Penn a day after Loewe took WM’s last available scholarship and I always wondered if Scott was seriously looking at WM but had to pivot once that last schollie was taken. On the current staff, Kemp has followed him in the past and I see DoBO Bollinger in his recent followers. Also Scott and Tyler Hamilton overlapped at Penn. Since entering the transfer portal Scott has received offers from St Bonaventure, Marist, and Binghamton.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/eddie-scott
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ott-2.html

Highlights:
https://youtu.be/PTOeyav0gpM

College of Charleston F Lorenzo Edwards (RS SR) has entered the transfer portal. Grad transfer.

Transfers Coming to the CAA:
Delaware: SO 6'3 Logan Curtis (ECU), JR 6'1 Jameer Nelson Jr. (GW)
Drexel: RS SR 6’2 Tre Brown (Colorado St - Pueblo)
Towson: RS SR 6'4 Terry Nolan (Bradley), SR 6'3 Antonio Rizzuto (Albany)
Northeastern: GRAD 6'8 Nikola Djogo (Notre Dame)
UNCW: SO 6'6 Trazarien White (Collin), GRAD 6'6 James Baker Jr. (Morehead St), 6'3 GRAD Jaylen Fornes (Nicholls St)

Potential Transfers Leaving the CAA:
CofC: GRAD 6'1 Zep Jasper (Auburn), JR 6'5 DeAngelo Epps, SO 6'7 Dontavius King (NCCU), GRAD 6'2 Brevin Galloway (BC), JR 6'2 Brenden Tucker, GRAD 6'8 Lorenzo Edwards
Drexel: GRAD 6'10 Tadas Kararinas
Elon: SO 6'6 Brandon Harris
Hofstra: GRAD 6'9 Kevin Schutte, SO 6'5 Vukasin Masic
JMU: JR 6'3 Jayvis Harvey, JR 6'6 TJ Taylor, JR 6’6 Michael Christmas (Longwood), SR 6'10 Joel Mensah
Northeastern: SO 6'6 J'Vonne Hadley, JR 6'0 Tyson Walker (Michigan St), GRAD 6'6 Shaquille Walters
Towson: SR 6'2 Jakigh Dottin, RS JR 6'6 Demetrius Mims
UNCW: SR 6'5 Brian Tolefree, JR 6'7 Jake Boggs, JR 6'6 Imajae Dodd, JR 6'5 Joe Pridgen, GRAD 6'7 John Bowen, SO 6'2 Ja'Juan Carr, GRAD 6'5 Jay Estime
WM: GRAD 6'4 Luke Loewe (Minnesota)

WM Offers:
GRAD 6'7 Kaiden Rice, Citadel (Howland* 3/16, Bollinger 4/4)
Top 8: WM, Arizona, Butler, Duquesne, South Florida, UAB, Loyola Chicago, South Alabama

WM Interest:
JR 6'9 Chase Barrs, Western Michigan (Kemp 3/10)
GRAD 6'1 Conley Garrison, Drury (Boatner 3/11)
RS JR 6'3 Dale Bonner, Fairmont St (Kemp* 3/15, Howland 3/17)
SO 6'3 Tyler Kolek, GMU (Howland 3/18)
JR 5'10 Jalen Benjamin, UAB (tweet 3/20)
RS SR 6'7 Sam Iorio, South Alabama (Bollinger 3/22)
RS JR 6'8 Jimmy Nichols Jr., Providence (Howland* 3/25)
GRAD 6'6 Adonis Arms, Winthrop (Howland 3/26)
SO 6'6 Nick Farrar, NC State (Bollinger 4/2)
SR 6'2 DeVon Baker, UNC Asheville (Howland 4/2)
GRAD 6'4 James Reese V, North Texas (Howland 4'2)
RS SR 6'2 Mason Stark, Northern St (Howland* 4/2) -> Northern Arizona
GRAD 6'0 Jaheam Cornwall, Gardner Webb (Howland 4/3)
RS SR 6'8 Parker Fox, Northern St (Kemp* 4/3) -> WM not in final schools
GRAD 6'6 Eddie Scott, Penn (Bollinger 4/5)

Saw Ryan Odum is leaving UMBC for Utah State. Curious to see if there is a mass exodus out of that program. Will LJ Owens go to 3rd school?

Coach Howland has started following 6’7 rising RS JR Madut Akec formerly of USF. Akec had a Winthrop offer when he was in HS back when Howland was at Winthrop.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...kec-1.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/madut-akec

6’8 rising SR Federico Poser has left Elon early in order to pursue a professional career.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/federico-poser

Former Radford G Fah'mir Ali is transferring to College of Charleston.

(04-06-2021 04:47 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  6’8 rising SR Federico Poser has left Elon early in order to pursue a professional career.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/federico-poser

Who's gonna lead the league in moving screens next year?

The entire transfer portal has become somewhat of a farce.Just over the weekend the U of Cincinnati's entire four-man freshman class of this season entered the transfer portal!

It's not unusual now to see players who have played on three or four teams which lets us know just how much the individual university means to these guys. I wonder if some of them in their disjointed education even know what
college for whom they're playing. A bunch of vagabond basketball player is what they are.

Some kind of reorganizing of the transfer rules is needed.

(04-07-2021 05:41 AM)bubbadog57 Wrote:  The entire transfer portal has become somewhat of a farce.Just over the weekend the U of Cincinnati's entire four-man freshman class of this season entered the transfer portal!

It's not unusual now to see players who have played on three or four teams which lets us know just how much the individual university means to these guys. I wonder if some of them in their disjointed education even know what
college for whom they're playing. A bunch of vagabond basketball player is what they are.

Some kind of reorganizing of the transfer rules is needed.

Cincinnati's coach, John Brennan, has been placed on paid leave and is undergoing an investigation into his program. They also had an assistant coach quit. We don't have all the details, but there seems to be something rotten with the head coach that is causing players to transfer.

(04-07-2021 05:41 AM)bubbadog57 Wrote:  It's not unusual now to see players who have played on three or four teams

This is a wild exaggeration. It is very unusual to see players who have played on three or four teams.

Also, the transfer portal is in its 3rd year. Blaming rules that have been in place for under 3 years for players playing for 3+ teams means the new rules aren't the cause. The volume of players that want to transfer has not changed, but now they have a means by which to be contacted about finding a better place for themselves.

3 teams isn't wildly uncommon (though it's still far from common), but it's more because of the grad transfer rules - player transfers once in undergrad, then uses the grad transfer (eg, Milon went BC -> WM undergrad, then a grad year at UCF).

I don't know of any players who have played for 4 teams offhand, not to say it hasn't happened. I would guess the most likely route would be JuCo -> NCAA team -> Undergrad Transfer -> Grad transfer, if we count a Juco team as one of the four teams.

My hope is that we reach some sort of natural equilibrium where coaches have to prioritize keeping recruits on campus for more than one year and are less inclined to sell them false narratives in HS recruiting. I'm just not sure we actually get there.

Ryan Murphy comes to mind - Charlotte > New Mexico Junior College > Pittsburgh > Duquesne

(04-05-2021 08:37 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Coach Howland has started following 6’7 rising RS JR Madut Akec formerly of USF. Akec had a Winthrop offer when he was in HS back when Howland was at Winthrop.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...kec-1.html
https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/madut-akec

Madut Akec just followed back Coach Howland.

I haven’t found a college highlight reel for Akec but there is a clip of all he did in one game against Tulane as a RS FR. USF is in green and Akec is #22.

https://youtu.be/pBksT3T4StY

Coach Howland and 6’7 grad transfer Brandon Carroll from Florida Southern (DII) are now following each other. Carroll, originally from Brewster, NY, spent three years at Bryant (including a red shirt year), and the past two years at Florida Southern.

https://fscmocs.com/sports/mens-basketba...rroll/3203

Jake Lieberman tweeted yesterday:

“ A source tells me that D2 transfer from Florida Southern Brandon Carroll (@bjcdos) has heard from a mix of high-major to low-major schools since entering the portal yesterday.

Averaged 16.5 PPG and shot 38% from three-point land. 6'7 guard/forward.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jakelieberman...8219151362

Highlights:
https://mobile.twitter.com/bjcdos/status...3897117698

South Alabama F Sam Iorio (RS JR) has received an offer from UNCW. Grad transfer w/ 2 years of eligibility.

6’9 Rising JR TJ Bickerstaff of Drexel has entered the portal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/VerbalCommits...8194768904
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...aff-1.html