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Players leaving/returning

Well, Nolan putting in for a transfer means his college career is likely not over, so that gives us some hope of Eli's return.
 
The new interest in Cam Martin indicates Wardle’s at least preparing for the possibility Eli doesn’t come back. Speaking as a fan, I really want him to play another year here. But if I were in his shoes I’d either start my pro career or come back to play another year in the NCAA but transfer to a bigger school like Kansas State hoping to catch the attention of the NBA. Or at least build my resume for when I go to Europe.
 
Now Indiana State's top 4 scorers have entered the Transfer Portal- In addition to Tyreke Key, Jake LaRavia, and Tre Williams, Cooper Neese just entered the portal. Also, reserves Cobie Barnes and Jared Hankins, and redshirting (injury) forward Kailex Stephens have entered the Transfer Portal.
That is a huge amount of open scholarships and talent lost that the new coach will have to deal with.
 
Wow!! Some of these college teams are being decimated. I look over that list, Da Coach, and I see teams like Jacksonville, George Washington, and Green Bay losing as many as 7-9 players
 
Yes, you have to wonder what's going on at schools with that number of transfers. Green Bay just hired a new coach a year ago, and after his first season, he has 9 players transferring out, some of which are his own recruits.
He is fortunate in one respect, that there will be so many transfers available in the Transfer Portal that he should be able to find replacements for the 9 players leaving and not have to go with all high school recruits like Bradley did in 2015.
 
2 more Valparaiso players enter the Transfer Portal. These two are a bit surprising- 5'9" junior guard Daniel Sackey and 6'8" senior forward Mileek McMillan. Sackey started 22 of 25 games this season at Valpo, and averaged 5.3 ppg, 3.5 assists/gm, and he shot 14.6% (6-41) from three. McMillan started 13 of 25 games and averaged 3.4 ppg and 1.6 rpg, and 24.5% from three. Last season (2019-20) McMillan started all 34 games, averaged 9 ppg, and was one of their top 3-point shooters.

These two potential transfers are a little surprising, since they have been nice role players at Valparaiso, but they clearly are not players who will make a major impact by transferring to another school. And their stats are not exactly going to generate a lot of coaches lining up to recruit them. McMillan is a senior, so he has just 1 additional year of potential eligibility, and Sackey, a junior would potentially have 2 seasons remaining.
Valparaiso is a very good school academically, and a scholarship there is worth over $60,000 per year (tuition $43,400/yr and room, board, fees about $17,000 additional). So unless these two were pushed out the door by head coach Matt Lottich, it seems a bit crazy to give up a quality and expensive education to take a chance at getting an offer to play at another school for just 1 or 2 more years. It will be interesting to see where they land. A significant number of Transfer Portal players each year never get another D1 offer, and with the flood of players transferring this season, that portion of players could be much greater.
 
OHHH, Sackey is my favorite Valley player outside of BU! Would love to see him in a Braves uniform!
 
Jake LaRavia, who is leaving Indiana State, will be transferring to Wake Forest.
https://verbalcommits.com/players/jake-laravia

This is a bit of a surprise. He is becoming a good player in the MVC, but I am not sure he is an ACC caliber player.
Wake Forest is not a very good team, so he should be able to find playing time. They were 6-16 overall, and 3-15 in the ACC, and finished 14th. Their only 3 ACC wins were over Pittsburgh, Miami, and Boston College, the 3 other worst ACC teams. They were dead last in the ACC in 2019-20, and they have not had a winning record in the ACC for 11 years.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/standings/_/group/2

I wish him good luck.
 
Illinois State players Dedric Boyd, Abdou Ndiaye, and Sy Chatman have entered the Transfer Portal, joining Keith Fisher III who had already declared he was leaving.
 
College basketball is starting to look like a fantasy football league where every year the players switch teams.
 
The glory days of College Men's Basketball are over. One and dones, open transfer portals, NBA 'Kids' League, European Leagues, and, players' endorsements/pay plans are/will be decimating the sport we all once knew and loved.
 
AZ BU Fan said:
The glory days of College Men's Basketball are over. One and dones, open transfer portals, NBA 'Kids' League, European Leagues, and, players' endorsements/pay plans are/will be decimating the sport we all once knew and loved.
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I am going to give you another reason. When i was going thru school and played a sport you worked hard at trying to gain a spot or playing time. If you lost your rotation spot you worked twice as hard to get it back. American young kids these days dont want to do that. They are spoiled, pampered. They want instant gratification. If they dont get the playing time they want they leave. I have seen it first hand at the lower level programs. In one program the Co-captain of the team, 6'5", leading scorer from year before quit the team 2 exhibition games into the season. Why? He said he wasn't getting the ball enough. Not the team wasn't getting the ball. He wasn't. What a team player!!
 
bradleyfan124 said:
In one program the Co-captain of the team, 6'5", leading scorer from year before quit the team 2 exhibition games into the season. Why? He said he wasn't getting the ball enough. Not the team wasn't getting the ball. He wasn't. What a team player!!
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This is a great example of anecdotal evidence. I caution everyone from individual handpicked scenarios being extrapolated across an entire generation of people.
 
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