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KeaneyBluBallz wrote: ↑1 month ago so running total, we have 7 total players from the 23/24 roster to enter the portal? is that # correct?

Zek, Fou, Weston, Brown, Dubs, Stewart, Ray Allen III (as he was a walkon - does that count?)

Also, once I start seeing Kenny posting his brick images I'll be happy again.

I see it all as the more space we have the more money we have for new guys. Everyone in the portal as of now I feel are replaceable. That is the positive thing that there is plenty of talent out there..

JUCO guard who’s blowing up

I wouldn't mind if Duane reached out to this big from New Jersey.
Soph. (PF) Jerome Brewer Jr (6'9") transferring from Texas A&M/Commerce averaged 14 pts.
He scored 32 pts against McNeese State.

Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:

Not an impressive list of schools.

Mid major conference transfers are few and far between on that list.

Low mid majors I guess.

Almost all guards. Strange, since the majority of our remaining players/incoming recruits are guards.

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


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This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


Portal-Tracker'24.png

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Can I refer you to Rhody Rehab? There are some things there that may help? Then again maybe not.

Yuk indeed

Is this all we can afford?

Like was said, looks like more of the same.

Lol are players just price tags now?

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑1 month ago Lol are players just price tags now?

Player profiles on tv will list height/weight/ppg an NIL $

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑1 month ago Lol are players just price tags now?

Only if you aren't paying up

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


Portal-Tracker'24.png

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


Portal-Tracker'24.png

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Mis-direction strategy? Stealth mode? What the heck is going on, Rhody?

Keep dropping the bread crumbs, Dino. Much appreciated.

Jdrums#3 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Mis-direction strategy? Stealth mode? What the heck is going on, Rhody?

Keep dropping the bread crumbs, Dino. Much appreciated.

For evidence look at last year for example.
Jaden House, had no knowledge before he visited we were involved w him
Luis Kortright, same thing until he visited
David Green, same thing til he visited
David Fuchs, same thing til we visited

Year Before that (Archie’s first offseason) examples:
The only two we knew were “involved” with before they committed or visited was B West and Foumena

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


Portal-Tracker'24.png

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Yeah facts. Archie loves to recruit extremely stealth. Much more than previous coaching regimes.

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago

ram1980 wrote: ↑1 month ago

This is just what we had. Yuk.. funny I was wondering where the request was for season ticket renewal seeing women's came out earlier this week. It actually was in my spam folder this morning. I had all I could do to not respond who is on my team and who are we playing???? Didn't even check it out yet. This list does nothing for me. Someone please help me feel better about our direction...

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Yeah facts. Archie loves to recruit extremely stealth. Much more than previous coaching regimes.

And how's that been working out for him?

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month ago

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Love how people think this is the only kids who We’ve reached out to in the portal lmao

Yeah facts. Archie loves to recruit extremely stealth. Much more than previous coaching regimes.

And how's that been working out for him?

I mean he got House...DG...Fuchs and Cam that way.

What does that have to do with what I said.

Relax dude got your panties in a bunch. Jesus

One thing I’ve noticed about Archie’s portal strategy is he almost exclusively targets mid and low major talent looking to transfer, almost zero power conference transfers. Only Tchikou and Weston came from higher conferences. Obviously, those two didn’t work out but not much has in the first two years.

I’d like to see Archie pursue more high major castoffs. I think there can be diamonds in the rough who were just buried on loaded rosters or blocked by a veteran.

We also saw Cox try to bring in some high major castoffs to mixed results, but I would trust Archie to get more out of high major castoffs than Cox.

How are people saying "Yuk" when they have literally never seen any of these players play? LOL

Come tf on.

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑1 month ago How are people saying "Yuk" when they have literally never seen any of these players play? LOL

Come tf on.

Maybe....if the players were really good...someone would have seen them play?
Otherwise, it's just a list of nohehoh's.....

Alabama, an Elite 8 team, with their best three players from the following schools.

Ohio
Hofstra
North Dakota St

People really getting all pissy because we’re targeting low majors?

I guess our team will be the best our money can buy.

section(105) wrote: ↑1 month ago I guess our team will be the best our money can buy.

No, just what the staff feels that is the best they can do in building the roster.

How good the team will do is up to the coaches.

Complaining about transfers that aren’t even committed, classic old hag Rhody fans.

As Ron Petro once said "we're aiming for the stars with our next hire"

That hire was Jim Baron. Oops.

Are we aiming for the stars, with these transfers?

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month ago

sevegny7 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Yeah facts. Archie loves to recruit extremely stealth. Much more than previous coaching regimes.

And how's that been working out for him?

I mean he got House...DG...Fuchs and Cam that way.

What does that have to do with what I said.

Relax dude got your panties in a bunch. Jesus

We're one of the worst, if not the worst, team in the A10. That's what I'm saying.

Dalton Knecht came from Northern Colorado.
Talent is everywhere it’s about finding the profile that suits your desired identity.

It’s like some fans think we are going to get a productive power conference player to transfer down. I’m sure we are talking to power conference transfers too but anyone of that profile is going to have limited to no body of work and be a total guessing game.

bigappleram wrote: ↑1 month ago Dalton Knecht came from Northern Colorado.
Talent is everywhere it’s about finding the profile that suits your desired identity.

It’s like some fans think we are going to get a productive power conference player to transfer down. I’m sure we are talking to power conference transfers too but anyone of that profile is going to have limited to no body of work and be a total guessing game.

Yup, in addition to the Alabama kids I listed above.

We’re not getting P5 kids averaging 12+ and 6 boards a game.

Just not happening.

bigappleram wrote: ↑1 month ago Dalton Knecht came from Northern Colorado.
Talent is everywhere it’s about finding the profile that suits your desired identity.

It’s like some fans think we are going to get a productive power conference player to transfer down. I’m sure we are talking to power conference transfers too but anyone of that profile is going to have limited to no body of work and be a total guessing game.

He was also at a JUCO before that.

Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 month ago

bigappleram wrote: ↑1 month ago Dalton Knecht came from Northern Colorado.
Talent is everywhere it’s about finding the profile that suits your desired identity.

It’s like some fans think we are going to get a productive power conference player to transfer down. I’m sure we are talking to power conference transfers too but anyone of that profile is going to have limited to no body of work and be a total guessing game.

Yup, in addition to the Alabama kids I listed above.

We’re not getting P5 kids averaging 12+ and 6 boards a game.

Just not happening.

Wait...you mean, Arch isn't at the Elite 8 scouting guys out?

I agree 15.

But we should be able to land a couple of transfers from mid major conferences at our level.

Dan got Newton from East Carolina of the AAC, he's worked out pretty well lol.

The biggest problem Archie will have, is trying to convince good players to come to a program that's been down in the dumps for a while now.

It's not just about money, at least I hope not.

The building a program angle like Dan did here, isnt very relevant anymore however. That meant signing and keeping guys for 3-4 years.

Those days are over for mid majors nowadays.

RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago

RF1 wrote: ↑2 months ago This site tracks transfers. Up to 677 as of right now at 11:30am 03-21-2024:

https://verbalcommits.com/transfers

As of 3:00pm 03/25/2024, the portal is now up to 886

As of 10:30am 03/30/2024, the portal is now up to 1,182

Ant Harris was a high-major player.

Alex was a high-major player.

Weston was a high-major player.

Max Ambas played at Oral Roberts and was one of Texas’s best players this season, or close to it.

Timberlake went from Hofstra to Kansas.

Aaron Estrada played at Hofstra; he’s now one of the better players on an Elite 8 team.

Grant Nelson played at North Dakota State.

Jalen Cook played at Tulane and dropped 15 points per game for LSU this year.

Wolf will be recruited heavily by high majors.

There are great players from low majors, so complaining about that is dumb to me. There are great players at all levels, even D2 players. The question is, can Archie land some? I think some of the players that we reached out to would make a strong impact on our team.

Two of those guys averaged over 20 points and several of them have high major offers. Total takes.

Safe to say they are after more than just those guys

We have 5 guards and 3 fromtcourt players, two of them being small forwards.

There's no way we aren't after any centers right now.

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑1 month ago Two of those guys averaged over 20 points and several of them have high major offers. Total takes.

Safe to say they are after more than just those guys

We have 5 guards and 3 fromtcourt players, two of them being small forwards.

There's no way we aren't after any centers right now.

Pretty sure everyone on that list except 2-3 players are receiving high major interest. And the 2-3 guys without high major interest still have A10, AAC, and MWC schools after them.

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑1 month ago Two of those guys averaged over 20 points and several of them have high major offers. Total takes.

Safe to say they are after more than just those guys

We have 5 guards and 3 fromtcourt players, two of them being small forwards.

There's no way we aren't after any centers right now.

And one of our SF’s is a true freshman. You would think we add at least 2 bigs, hopefully 1 is a rim protector.

Jersey77 wrote: ↑1 month ago

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑1 month ago Two of those guys averaged over 20 points and several of them have high major offers. Total takes.

Safe to say they are after more than just those guys

We have 5 guards and 3 fromtcourt players, two of them being small forwards.

There's no way we aren't after any centers right now.

And one of our SF’s is a true freshman. You would think we add at least 2 bigs, hopefully 1 is a rim protector.

I think we must have two more centers and hopefully they are 6'10+. Maybe one veteran like Federiko Federiko and a younger developmental guy. You can't just have Fuchs and one other true 5 man on the entire roster.

Need at least 1 wing. With a good wing you may not even need to get another SF like Green or Farrell since those positions are so similar. Farrell would essentially replace Weston and the Wing transfer replace Zek.

Not sure how they play it at guard.

Cam and Jaden play the same position.

3 PG's with Luis being someone who would do fine playing off the ball.

I think we'd all prefer a veteran true PG and make sure that new wing can really score the ball.

2 centers
1 wing/SF
1 PG

Not sure what they'd want to do with the 5th spot. Freshman guard?

OK, March 32nd, we have no announced commitment(s) of arrivals, yes, I am the old guy that doesn’t understand the nuances of the power play waltz…….shoot!

I used to check this board every day this time of year in anticipation of new signings.

Not so much now. Even when we do add transfers, what confidence is there that they will be good?

That's where we're at.

section(105) wrote: ↑1 month ago OK, March 32nd, we have no announced commitment(s) of arrivals, yes, I am the old guy that doesn’t understand the nuances of the power play waltz…….shoot!

Looking at last year our first commitment (Tyson) first committed in between the week of The Elite Eight and Final Four, I’d honestly be shocked if nothing happens this week

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


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I decided to do a little digging. For the past couple of years, a large percentage of our recruits and our portal interests have been from the DMV area. There are 14 guys on this current list. How many from the DMV area? Zero. There are 6 from NY/NJ. Those would be Duane. 3 are from Illinois. Those would be one our midwest guys, Cunningham, Sander or Graves, suggesting one of them has been moved up to a recruiting position. One is from Mass...Austin. Then, 2 are from Florida and interestingly, 2 are from the state of Washington (who could that be?) My point being, since zero are from the DMW, it doesn't appear that Kenny is still working for us.

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month ago

CamsRams wrote: ↑1 month ago Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody:


Portal-Tracker'24.png

I decided to do a little digging. For the past couple of years, a large percentage of our recruits and our portal interests have been from the DMV area. There are 14 guys on this current list. How many from the DMV area? Zero. There are 6 from NY/NJ. Those would be Duane. 3 are from Illinois. Those would be one our midwest guys, Cunningham, Sander or Graves, suggesting one of them has been moved up to a recruiting position. One is from Mass...Austin. Then, 2 are from Florida and interestingly, 2 are from the state of Washington (who could that be?) My point being, since zero are from the DMW, it doesn't appear that Kenny is still working for us.

Kenny works in the dark, didn’t know a lot about who he recruited til the actual visits