Talented players just are not going to stay in our league any more, beyond about 2 years. Such a shame

(04-08-2021 06:17 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Talented players just are not going to stay in our league any more, beyond about 2 years. Such a shame

CAA, and most other mids are the P5 farm system. This is the future if allowing zero penalty transfers becomes the norm.

(04-08-2021 06:44 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(04-08-2021 06:17 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Talented players just are not going to stay in our league any more, beyond about 2 years. Such a shame

CAA, and most other mids are the P5 farm system. This is the future if allowing zero penalty transfers becomes the norm.

This is correct. And it sucks.

Bollinger following former UMBC forward Brandon Horvath. Grad transfer

Chase Barrs committed to Florida A&M

Democratic liberal administrations ( such as ours )will not put up with this free agency.They will stop it .

(04-08-2021 07:17 PM)ScottyB757 Wrote:  

(04-08-2021 06:44 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  

(04-08-2021 06:17 PM)dan10 Wrote:  Talented players just are not going to stay in our league any more, beyond about 2 years. Such a shame

CAA, and most other mids are the P5 farm system. This is the future if allowing zero penalty transfers becomes the norm.

This is correct. And it sucks.

It does suck when players transfer out, but I also think players should do what is best for themselves. We don't know everyone's situation, or what is driving them to transfer. Plenty of non-athlete undergrad students transfer for whatever reason, I don't see the need to force players to sit out for their first transfer.

(04-02-2021 09:55 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  I want to throw Nick Farrar’s name out there - 6’6 rising SO from NC State that entered the portal a day or two ago and has gotten a lot of CAA interest. Miles Masercola tweets:

“ Since entering his name in the transfer portal Nick Farrar has heard from:
SMU, Northeastern, UNCW, College of Charleston, Western Kentucky, Stetson, Liberty, James Madison, NCCU, Hampton, Coastal Carolina, Elon, and Robert Morris.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/MasercolaMile...6434140160

Farrar retweeted a quote from his HS coach saying to reach out to him regarding Farrar. In that coach’s followers list I see DoBO Bollinger popping up.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/nick-farrar
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...rar-1.html
Highlights:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Junaid_TheMan...9687710721

Nick Farrar headed to CofC.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/nick-farrar

(04-08-2021 08:21 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Bollinger following former UMBC forward Brandon Horvath. Grad transfer

Stats and highlights (27 pt 10 reb performance against Albany this past season) for 6’10 Brandon Horvath, originally from West River, MD.

https://youtu.be/wNzgSq7ffJA
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ath-1.html

(04-09-2021 04:01 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(04-02-2021 09:55 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  I want to throw Nick Farrar’s name out there - 6’6 rising SO from NC State that entered the portal a day or two ago and has gotten a lot of CAA interest. Miles Masercola tweets:

“ Since entering his name in the transfer portal Nick Farrar has heard from:
SMU, Northeastern, UNCW, College of Charleston, Western Kentucky, Stetson, Liberty, James Madison, NCCU, Hampton, Coastal Carolina, Elon, and Robert Morris.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/MasercolaMile...6434140160

Farrar retweeted a quote from his HS coach saying to reach out to him regarding Farrar. In that coach’s followers list I see DoBO Bollinger popping up.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/nick-farrar
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...rar-1.html
Highlights:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Junaid_TheMan...9687710721

Nick Farrar headed to CofC.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/nick-farrar

How worried should we be about CofC? Feels like very?


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I'm worried about CoC, they knocked it out of the park by hiring Pat Kelsey. He had one losing season at Winthrop - his very first year. Since then they're been one of the top mid major teams, five 20+ win seasons and three NCAA tournament births in 8 years (counting 2020, they won their conference tournament before Covid). CoC has a better location, better facilities, and more money than Winthrop, and he's already very familiar with the area.

(04-09-2021 08:13 AM)wml33t Wrote:  How worried should we be about CofC? Feels like very?


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Short term? Not at all. If their seniors leave they're losing 8 out of their top 9 guys from last year. They're in full rebuild mode and won't matter this year and probably next.

Long term? A lot, like Hofstra and Northeastern. They all have more resources, more recent success, more prominent coaches, and generally more appealing locations. We'll have to pull some rabbits out of hats to have sustained success in comparison.

Former Winthrop G Charles Falden is transferring to James Madison.

(03-21-2021 05:33 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(03-20-2021 10:18 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  https://twitter.com/336edits/status/1373467952083767302

5’10 Jalen Benjamin - a rising junior who entered into the portal from UAB on 3/17.

https://verbalcommits.com/players/jalen-benjamin

Stats:
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...min-1.html

Highlights from his freshman year (named to C-USA’s All Freshman team):
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jbenjamin_5/s...0724978689

Coach Howland followed Benjamin, who is originally from Raleigh, on Twitter when Howland was part of Winthrop’s staff.

Jalen Benjamin headed to Mount St Mary’s.

https://mobile.twitter.com/VerbalCommits...2875534338

(03-12-2021 02:48 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  Rising JR 6’5 DeAngelo Epps of CofC has entered the transfer portal.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...pps-1.html
https://verbalcommits.com/players/deangelo-epps

DeAngelo Epps headed to Hampton.

https://mobile.twitter.com/VerbalCommits...1247143938

Transfers Coming to the CAA:
CofC: SO 5'10 Fah'mir Ali (Radford), SO 6'6 Nick Farrar (NC State)
Delaware: SO 6'3 Logan Curtis (ECU), JR 6'1 Jameer Nelson Jr. (GW)
Drexel: RS SR 6’2 Tre Brown (Colorado St - Pueblo)
JMU: GRAD 6'3 Charles Falden (Winthrop)
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 (Hampton), 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, JR 6'9 TJ Bickerstaff
Elon: SO 6'6 Brandon Harris, SR 6'8 Federico Poser (turning pro)
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) -> Florida A&M
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) -> Mount St. Mary's
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) -> CofC
SR 6'2 DeVon Baker, UNC Asheville (Howland 4/2)
GRAD 6'4 James Reese V, North Texas (Howland 4'2)
GRAD 6'0 Jaheam Cornwall, Gardner Webb (Howland 4/3)
GRAD 6'6 Eddie Scott, Penn (Bollinger 4/5)
RS JR 6'7 Madut Akec, South Florida (Howland* 4/5)
GRAD 6'7 Brandon Carroll, Florida Southern (Howland* 4/8)
GRAD 6'10 Brandon Horvath, UMBC (Bollinger 4/8)

(03-22-2021 12:23 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  6’7 Sam Iorio, who just finished his RS JR season with South Alabama, entered the portal this morning. Looking at his recent followers I see fellow PA native DoBO Bollinger (Iorio is from Allentown, Bollinger from York). Other coaches following Iorio so far are from GW, San Diego, and Kent St.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/sam-iorio

Stats:
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...rio-2.html

Highlights (albeit from his freshman year at American):
https://youtu.be/4TXFcQxKkmY

Sam Iorio heading to Niagara.

https://mobile.twitter.com/VerbalCommits...9251283968

(03-16-2021 10:53 AM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  

(03-10-2021 03:45 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  Saw Tyler Rice's brother Kaiden from the Citadel has entered the grad transfer portal. Quite a coincidence that our coaches have been looking for 6'5 transfer guards that can shoot. Kaiden was one of the top 3 point shooters in America this year.
#ricereunion

Coach Howland and Kaiden Rice (who is listed at 6’7) are now following each other.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ice-1.html

Found a highlight video for Kaiden Rice

https://mobile.twitter.com/AnthonyJazz/s...4537857027

@AnthonyJazz tweets:

“Kaiden Rice would be a game changer for Duquesne. 17.6 ppg, 35% 3pt, 88% FT. Catch and shoot or off dribble, dude can pop from anywhere - one of the quickest shooters you'll find. Added a nice dribble-drive game last year - better assist man, better finisher around the rim.”

Scratch out Duquesne and replace with WM, of course.

(03-08-2021 04:09 PM)WillaMary08 Wrote:  UNCW rising junior 6’7 Jake Boggs has entered the transfer portal.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jake-boggs
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pla...ggs-1.html

Jake Boggs headed to South Florida.

https://mobile.twitter.com/VerbalCommits...7411843077

Former Northeastern G J'Vonne Hadley is transferring to St. Thomas.