2021 MVC Transfers

[Manchester Matt]

 

[Chicagobirdfan]

Moving closer to home eh? Seems a whole lot further away to me.

 

[ISU86]

He got a little over 1/2-way home - maybe he gets another year of eligibility and completes the trip!

it's all lip-service anyway

 

[CB2K]

If you have never been to El Paso then you aren't missing anything. I was always surprised how legendary coach Don Haskins could get high level recruits to come to play basketball in a desert.

 

[JHBird]

If you have never been to El Paso then you aren't missing anything. I was always surprised how legendary coach Don Haskins could get high level recruits to come to play basketball in a desert.

He should've went to New Mexico State, just up the road a bit. But maybe he wasn't good enough for them. I saw some of those UTEP/NMSU games; UTEP was pretty good back then and NMSU was in the valley. The good ole days.

 

[MadBird]

If you have never been to El Paso then you aren't missing anything. I was always surprised how legendary coach Don Haskins could get high level recruits to come to play basketball in a desert.

I don't know, I like the desert in general and thought El Paso had it's good spots. Campus was nice, Sun Bowl is great, set in the mountains.

Arizona in the desert, Arizona State.

 

[CaliRdBrd]

I don't know, I like the desert in general and thought El Paso had it's good spots. Campus was nice, Sun Bowl is great, set in the mountains.

Arizona in the desert, Arizona State.

El Paso is a quite a bit different than Phoenix and Tucson. And not in a good way.

 

[MadBird]

El Paso is a quite a bit different than Phoenix and Tucson. And not in a good way.

Whatever, is there anything you aren't always "right" about?? I know Phoenix and Tucson too.

The first statement was how could Haskins get anyone to play "in the desert". Nothing said about El Paso. I used a couple of examples of "desert cities".

I said El Paso "had it's good spots" not that it was the greatest city in the world and better than Phoenix or Tucson.

 

[CaliRdBrd]

Whatever, is there anything you aren't always "right" about?? I know Phoenix and Tucson too.

The first statement was how could Haskins get anyone to play "in the desert". Nothing said about El Paso. I used a couple of examples of "desert cities".

I said El Paso "had it's good spots" not that it was the greatest city in the world and better than Phoenix or Tucson.

Nope

 

[Redbird222]

Bradley:
Antonio Thomas
Danya Kingsby: Grambling State
Kevin McAdoo
Terry Nolan Jr
Sean East

Evansville:
Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander
Samari Curtis to Bowling Green

Indiana State
Cooper Neese
Jake LaRavia- Wake Forest
Tre Williams
Jared Hankins
Cobie Barnes
Kailex Stephens

Illinois State
Keith Fisher
Sy Chatman
Abdou Ndaiye
Dedric Boyd

UNI
Evan Gauger

Valpo
Donovan Clay
Sigurd Lorange
Nick Robinson
Steven Helm
Mileek McMillan
Daniel Sackey

INST, Valpo, and BU have been hit hard so far. UE is losing a pair of good ones as well. The two that the Birds have had transfer are non-factors as it pertains to expectations for next season. That's to say, no one expected them to be Redbirds next season.

Mentioned elsewhere, but Muller let the kids go home after the season ended. So, it's unlikely that they have had their end of season meetings yet to determine who else will be leaving. If ISU only has two more players leave and they aren't Horne, Washington or Fleming, I'd be fine with that.

Cam Bacote from Indiana St is transferring
Nolan Jr to Towson
Fisher to El Paso

 

[Adunk33]

Cam Bacote from Indiana St is transferring
Nolan Jr to Towson
Fisher to El Paso

Added to page 1 post and added Valpo's Jacob Ognacevic.

 

[Redbird222]

Added to page 1 post and added Valpo's Jacob Ognacevic.

Thanks for keeping this

 

[Bird Friend]

Add Jared Ridder from MO State

 

[Bird Friend]

FWIW, there are 750 names in the D1 portal. And 456 names in the D2 portal. The transfer portal is a hot mess across NCAA. This has got to change. If the NCAA gives players 1 transfer with immediate eligibility . . . it'll be a nightmare for coaches and administrators . . . and the talent gap will widen. Head Coaches will begin hiring poachers for assistants. Which is probably already being done.

 

[stats]

This is another reason why I think having an identifiable program and system is important. Hopefully, the recruits would then be more likely to go to a school where they want to be for 4 years and develop along the way.

 

[bombay]

If you have never been to El Paso then you aren't missing anything. I was always surprised how legendary coach Don Haskins could get high level recruits to come to play basketball in a desert.

When Haskins coached, there was still a lot of segregation. The Kentucky team he beat to win the NCAA was all white. So he had a bigger pool to recruit from.

 

[Adunk33]

Add Jared Ridder from MO State

Added

 

[Bird Friend]

FWIW, there are 750 names in the D1 portal. And 456 names in the D2 portal. The transfer portal is a hot mess across NCAA. This has got to change. If the NCAA gives players 1 transfer with immediate eligibility . . . it'll be a nightmare for coaches and administrators . . . and the talent gap will widen. Head Coaches will begin hiring poachers for assistants. Which is probably already being done.

Not even eight hours later and the D1 pool has grown to 794 players . . . absurd!

 

[CaliRdBrd]

This is crazy. And not in a good way.

 

[ISU86]

Not even eight hours later and the D1 pool has grown to 794 players . . . absurd!

There are 4,641 NCAA Men's Basketball Division I scholarships available (357 schools, 13 scholarships per school) at any time. That works out to over 17% (one in six) of them being in the portal (assuming most, if not all, are scholarship players).

The ratio is probably even lower than that as there are some kids who are either graduating or deciding not to play any longer that are in the make-up of the 4,641.

Finally, at last check there were 933 additonal non-scholarship students playing.