2024 Coaching Carousel

[D-West & PO-Z]

To clarify my key points:

1. Not playing in the post season allows for more available time to spend on the portal.

2. Some of the better players and most attractive schools that are still playing will not “enter” the portal until later, making an early entrance not nearly as valuable as it would seem.

3. If you are still playing, keeping an eye on the portal makes sense. What doesn’t make sense of some kind of “list” ahead of time that a staff would spend any time on.

I don't think you are fully understanding what people mean when they discuss the staff having an idea of certain guys in advance. You seem to be envisioning them spending some inordinate amount of time evaluating every player on every team and ranking them and then seeing who enters. In reality as '80 has said, there are certain guys you played against that catch you eye, certain guys you friends in coaching played against they alert you to, certain guys who play or played for a current coach or high school coach who alerts you to said guy etc.

I feel like this is fairly well known and how X has gotten several guys in the past.

[xubrew]

I'm pretty sure that every D1 coaching staff in the country has one coach that checks the portal every day. Even before players can go into it, they're probably still looking at it. Right now there are probably less than 50 players in it, and someone on all 363 staffs knows who those players has looked at it today, and tomorrow, they'll look at it again. Playing in a postseason tournament doesn't hinder anyone's time in the portal. There's really only so much time you can spend in there looking at the same names over and over and over. I can't think of any coaches who ever said or thought "well, we wanted this guy, but we just missed that he was in the portal because we were still playing in a tournament.

Coaches know who is in the portal. They can SEE it!! They can pull it up on their phone at this very moment in a matter of seconds, and if there is someone in there that interests them they can make contact now. This argument would have made more sense BEFORE the portal, because going through the old process of getting permission to contact DID take time, and coaches weren't always sure who was actually looking to transfer.

[Xville]

Iu is bringing Woodson back… why I dunno but my guess then is may goes to Ohio state.

[MHettel]

Iu is bringing Woodson back… why I dunno but my guess then is may goes to Ohio state.

I saw a podcast on YouTube where Frishner and Rick B said exactly that. Maybe that’s why?

[GoMuskies]

We might be a week away from Mick Cronin to Louisville. Heads are ready to explode.

[Xville]

We might be a week away from Mick Cronin to Louisville. Heads are ready to explode.

He’s not even on the list.

They are making a run at Drew. Musselman is backup.

[American X]

Please give me Bob Huggins to Louisville. It may be the only thing to redeem this college basketball season.

[Blue Blooded-05]

Please give me Bob Huggins to Louisville. It may be the only thing to redeem this college basketball season.

I was just saying the other day that I miss having Huggins around. He’s such a great villain. It’s like Star Wars without Darth Vader

[D-West & PO-Z]

Huggins to OSU would be great, then he can actually drive drunk in Columbus instead of thinking he's driving drunk in Columbus.

[Xville]

McDermott just received a nice little extension through the 27-28 season. So cross him off the list.