2025 Transfer Portal

Xville · 03-30-2025, 02:35 PM

Swain posted a picture of himself in an x uniform this morning. Could he be hinting at something?

**GoMuskies** · 03-30-2025, 02:38 PM

I'd 100% trade having Miller for having Swain another year.

xavbball · 03-30-2025, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Xavier

Something to think about with Miller. He was 100% ready to leave after year one. So, did he ever have any plans to develop guys like Craft or Green? I don’t particularly think those guys had a huge future but I do think Sean sacrificed future and development for 1 year runs until he got a new gig

Sean had no intention of building a transfer era model that would work at a program like Xavier. He was focused on short-term results so he could move on elsewhere and sold us on the flawed idea that you need to "get old and stay old”. As a result, younger players like Green never had a chance to develop, and we all accepted it as the reality of the current landscape. Then, after losing to one of the youngest teams in the country in the tournament, he took the Texas job and suddenly the narrative became that Xavier didn’t have the resources. Absolute nonsense.

As I’ve already mentioned in this thread, success without five-star recruits and massive NIL budgets is entirely possible. Florida and especially Texas Tech are two examples in recent years. You have young international players at Florida like Alex Condon who wouldn’t have been recruited by Sean and if he did Sean likely would’ve pushed him out after a year to make room for a fifth-year transfer. Meanwhile, Texas Tech has thrived despite having three coaches in seven years and losing star players to programs like Creighton. Yet, they’ve consistently found success in this era. It can be done at Xavier.

bjf123 · 03-30-2025, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Xville

Swain posted a picture of himself in an x uniform this morning. Could he be hinting at something?

Originally Posted by GoMuskies

I'd 100% trade having Miller for having Swain another year.

^^^This^^^

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drudy23 · 03-30-2025, 02:56 PM

I still find it unbelievable that Miller was looking after year 1 after all he said in coming back. He literally just lied through his teeth to get a job to springboard it to something else.

If I was Christopher, there would have been a come to Jesus moment after finding out he was shopping after year 1.

Part of me is starting to think that Sean Miller has pulled the wool over the eyes of many in establishing how good he really is. He may be better at marketing spin for himself than he is at actually being capable of producing what he says is so important to him.

Xavier · 03-30-2025, 03:21 PM

Here’s the deal. He argued you have to do more with less at X. But that wasn’t the case in the A-10. You had every advantage in the A-10. At Arizona he he great years, but also had a coach go to prison. They had every advantage in the pac 12. Then he did well with Steele roster, and sucked after. It’s easy to look back and think he certainly hasn’t over performed.

In the end I think he’s still a good coach who destroyed his reputation with X fans. The way Rick put it was wonderful. “Underwhelming full of catch phrases”. I think Sean is going to be out coached often in the SEC and Texas will never be a real threat to win the league.