2025 Transfer Portal

[drudy23]

I seriously can't believe there are still Xavier fans that don't think making the tournament every year is realistic. Yes, there are going to be 1-2 seasons per decade where weird things just happen, but 80-90% of the time is very realistic.

I just don't get this mentality. People act like it's still 1989.

[Xavier]

Completely agree with Hetts post. I thought X was in position to consistently be a 6 seed or better. That was my expectation, with off years being on the bubble. That unfortunately has changed. But still make the tournament.

[drudy23]

It just shows how bad the past 6-7 of 8 years have been. Just not us. At all.

[Xville]

I seriously can't believe there are still Xavier fans that don't think making the tournament every year is realistic. Yes, there are going to be 1-2 seasons per decade where weird things just happen, but 80-90% of the time is very realistic.

I just don't get this mentality. People act like it's still 1989.

I’m not sure that people are saying it isn’t realistic. Next year is just one year where I’d give the program a break if it were not to happen. We don’t have 10 million to spend, we have five. We have a new coach and he’s replacing an entire roster. It could be fine and we will waltz into the tourney, but im not gonna be shocked if it looks a little disjointed next year either. Who knows though… still lots of roster to fill

[drudy23]

It is kind of weird we all will probably have little clue if we're any good or not on opening night.

But if we can get some great roster construction with some good balance and decent depth, even if none of them are 5 star guys, I think we'll be fine. A roster with 8-10 contributors can be better than one with 2 studs and diluted depth.

[Caveat]

I seriously can't believe there are still Xavier fans that don't think making the tournament every year is realistic. Yes, there are going to be 1-2 seasons per decade where weird things just happen, but 80-90% of the time is very realistic.

I just don't get this mentality. People act like it's still 1989.

It’s going to take a while under the new revenue share format for me to feel comfortable about Xavier basketball not being spent into irrelevance by the Big 10 / SEC. There’s no reality where players making $2M+ in college is sustainable for Xavier.

As for next year? I’m incredibly underwhelmed by Pitino’s work in the portal thus far. He doesn’t have a single top-100 commit in the portal, and a lot of these guys either look like role players or guys who will need to show they can hoop at the high major level. There’s still time, but I’m not a huge fan of what I’ve seen so far.

[GoMuskies]

I think I'm with Drudy. I'll let you know how I think Pitino did in the portal sometime in mid November, because that's the first time I'll have any idea.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I can answer that. The program is sufficiently resourced and has the necessary elements to make the tournament every year. Period.

Doesn’t matter which year, which coach, which players.

If you stratify all the D1 teams you basically can assume that of the 68 total bids about 32 of them are auto bids. 5-7 of those auto bids will go to multi-bid leagues. The premier multi bid leagues have about 70 teams total. Add in the MWC that has inched their way up the ladder some and will (between them and the “new” Pac12) continue to get 2-3 at large bids a year. Let’s say there are around 80 teams fighting for around 36 total at large bids.

All you need to go is finish in the top 50% among those 80 teams to feel safely in. Is that too much to ask? Is that too much to expect?

I say 9/10 years in the dance. I’ll accept a year with circumstances here and there.

But our DOWN years need to be the years where we are 8/9/10 years.

We just finished a stretch of 7 years with 2 tourney appearances, one of which was a PIG seed. That does NOT meet expectations. at all.

We need t big time bounce back season next year. To reemerge on the scene as an annual threat to make a run.

Recency is huge. We were a 1 seed once. Remember that? Seemed kinda like yesterday cause I can recall the level of excitement I had. But it was 8 years ago. Nobody else remembers. We get ZERO dividends from that.

We have a LONG road ahead of us. We were on the doorstep of a FF. We just had a reset. Need a big year next year

Solid answer/comment Hett. I totally agree.

X has the resources. A coach should be able to get this program to the dance just about every year.

[Xavier]

I think I'm with Drudy. I'll let you know how I think Pitino did in the portal sometime in mid November, because that's the first time I'll have any idea.

Exactly. Pitino transfer Tonje was ranked 297 portal transfer, became an All American. Quincy I thought wasn’t top 100 either. I hope he recruits to his style- don’t sacrifice the theme (disruptive defense) for portal rankings.

[drudy23]

The best damn player (Clayton) in the country (arguably) started at Iona.