2025 Transfer Portal

[IM4X]

That would really be something if UC President Neville Pinto helped convince Swain to stay at X.

Yes, he’s a good lad that Neville fellow.

[IM4X]

If I was Christopher, I'd have said: "Sean, so happy you'll finish your career here. Should be no problem then for a $20 million buy-out."

Agree. So what was the buyout? It would be rather disappointing to find out the number was less than $10 million.

[FishingXfan]

Agree. So what was the buyout? It would be rather disappointing to find out the number was less than $10 million.

From rumors about 2mill. Chump change to a school like Texas.


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[Xavier]

Agree. So what was the buyout? It would be rather disappointing to find out the number was less than $10 million.

At the time, Greg knew the next hire was important for him. The second miller was a possibility, he had to do whatever he could to get him. If it’s reportedly accurate (around 2-3 million) I don’t necessarily fault him. Knowing what he knows now, I think he’d do it again. In a bizarre twist, Millers actions almost give Greg new life. Greg kinda gets a free pass for hiring him and it not working because Sean showed his true colors. No one is more hated by Xavier fans than Miller.

[MHettel]

Watching the Final 4 teams and others in this weekend's Elite 8 games , I started digging into rosters and seeing how elite these teams are from X's teams.
Usually Final 4 teams have 3-4 4 and 5 star recruits and simply overwhelm "lesser" teams all season.

With the exception of Duke, most of these Elite 8 teams have many transfers from lesser conferences, and with a few(2-3) underclassmen who have only been to their respective schools since frosh year.
How was the SEC able to have 4 NCAA teams in this elite 8?
Was it quality coaching putting together specialized rosters?
What does Bruce Pearl, Todd Golden, and Kelvin Sampson, etc. see in a transfer that turns into an extremely talented guard or forward. Is it elite foot speed, off the charts length, quick hands? How can the Big East help the top 4-5 teams get and develop transfer talent to then dominate other teams?

I’ve watched a lot of tournament games this year and a lot of SEC. Let’s not fool ourselves, the SEC has the deepest pockets of all of the conferences. And it football money. But they made a concerted effort to effort to spend it on basketball and it worked gloriously.

Great player can look average with average teammates. Good player can look great with good teammates. All of the top 5-7 SEC teams are pretty loaded with talent. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 4 or 5 star guy. That’s out dated at this point. Would you rather have a 4 star Freshman SG or Ryan Conwell? A 5 star freshman wing or Swain as a junior.

It’s about accumulating talent NOW. I didn’t see any John Hugleys out there for Florida. Why is that? Because the probably cost about half of what their backup big costs. And we’re shopping in one market, and they are in another one.

Money, guys. Money, money, money.

How many years were we like 1 guy short. 1 stud off the bench and we’re a FF team. But fouls or injury creep up and were done.

I was pretty bullish on our team this year. Traore hurt. But Hugley hurt worse.

This is a trend. Maybe not enough data yet to establish this, but we will just continue to see the talent migrate “up” to where the money is.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Any reports on what we paid for Pitinos buyout?

[cutterX]

I think i saw somewhere Pitino's buyout was $375,000 but not sure. Doesn't seem like that would be high enough.

[Xville]

I'd like Washington as well. Good Size, great on-ball defender...two years left. His shooting improved...if he can get that to the 35% range, with all the other things he can do well, he'd be a great fit.

The more I see about Jaylen Petty (former NM commit), the more i like. Yes he's only 6' , but he shot 46% from 3, and again is another great defender.

CJ luster is a guard I saw that we reached out to. He was on a really bad Stony Brook team, but shot 42% from 3 at a high volume (almost 8 3attempts a game)

Marquel Sutton is a forward from Omaha. I want this dude. 6'9, 220 athletic and he rebounds. Averaged 19, 8 on a team that made the tourney. He has been contacted by a lot of the bigger boys...so it will take some cash but i think he's worth it.

[Xavier]

Agreed with the above. Sutton, while tough, would be my #1 target. I’m looking forward to the press conference being over and some names start dropping.

[drudy23]

Basically, the roster is going to be potentially a couple of NM transfers and the rest mid-major portal guys.

Will the Crosstown Shootout inevitably die in the NIL era? There is zero dedication to program anymore. It's 99.9% about the cash.