2025 Transfer Portal

LOLmickcronin · 03-24-2025, 03:07 PM

Good for dailyn. He seems like an awesome kid. I wouldn’t stick around for a rebuild either.

College basketball as we know it is completely dead. We need to realize that and mourn it. I’ll always love Xavier and be a fan but there will likely never be a player or coach that really means anything to the school and fans (and vice versa) beyond a name on a shirt again.

bjf123 · 03-24-2025, 03:48 PM

Will any future basketball players make the Xavier Hall of Fame? I doubt it. They won’t be here long enough.

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xuphan · 03-24-2025, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by LOLmickcronin

Good for dailyn. He seems like an awesome kid. I wouldn’t stick around for a rebuild either.

College basketball as we know it is completely dead. We need to realize that and mourn it. I’ll always love Xavier and be a fan but there will likely never be a player or coach that really means anything to the school and fans (and vice versa) beyond a name on a shirt again.

I wouldn’t say college basketball is dead but it is possessed by demons. There seems to be no control on any of the NIL and transfer portal stuff. Just let everyone do what they want. It needs to have some oversight and not be a MLB style free agency. I have always wondered why schools don’t sign players to multi-year NIL deals. Atleast protect your investments from leaving for free.

LOLmickcronin · 03-24-2025, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by xuphan

I wouldn’t say college basketball is dead but it is possessed by demons. There seems to be no control on any of the NIL and transfer portal stuff. Just let everyone do what they want. It needs to have some oversight and not be a MLB style free agency. I have always wondered why schools don’t sign players to multi-year NIL deals. Atleast protect your investments from leaving for free.

The way I understand it they can’t really do that. The players are not employees of the school or have a CBA or anything like that. The NIL deals are fairly tenuous from a legal standpoint which is also why you see schools burn the players and not pay them sometimes.

ArizonaXUGrad · 03-24-2025, 07:06 PM

I am very curious what will come of Fletcher's lawsuit vs. Hamilton over unpaid NIL at FSU.

Xavier · 03-24-2025, 10:17 PM

By the way, I have heard that X actually does a month by month thing. And so while everyone was up in arms that X was paying Green for sitting to save the year and transfer- he actually wasn’t getting paid during those months. Found that interesting and if true, probably how it played out with Craft or X learned there lesson and switched up strategy after Craft.

ArizonaXUGrad · 03-25-2025, 10:28 AM

Hugley in the portal. I expect to read Conwell's decision today as well. I am just hearing it all at this point. No sense in this being anything other than noise. The new coach will hit the portal for new players and fill out a team.

How much energy does one put in getting to know who is on the team next season when half leave in the portal? I saw this among the ASU fans this past season. These were fans that have had tickets for decades and lived through torrid results, but it was the lack of roster retention (and coaching) that did them in. The guy I got tickets from didn't renew. These are fans that were fine buying tickets year after year to have success 1 every 4 years.

ASU is not a good program, but I think a lot of programs will experience that kind of apathy.