The hopefully definitive 2021 transfer portal thread

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 10:02 am

Basically all the top UMBC players are in the portal

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » April 13th, 2021, 10:09 am

SpectrumMagic wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 7:45 am

aggies22 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:24 am

bpd wrote: ↑
April 12th, 2021, 9:00 pm

aggies22 wrote: ↑
April 12th, 2021, 8:45 pm
We've lost our top two offseason targets in the last 24 hours. The transfer portal $hit might be hitting the fan.
Wasn’t everyone just a few hours ago, saying relax, everything is going to be just fine.
I did say relax. I'm not saying panic either but we aren't off to a great start. Everybody else is getting better and we're stuck begging our own players to come back.
Yikes - I know there has been some issues in athletics (football with prior staff, people out to get Hartwell etc) but are these issues still prevalent?

Is there a really poor perception of Logan and northern Utah from the outside or within basketball people?

When Mrs Musselman screamed racism from our fans is that perception still out there?

I know that when a coach leaves there will be some changes but it seemed like Craig and his staff had a heck of a time bringing in talent. The MWC is a good conference with good facilities players get to play in, USU has a history of winning and success, has a great homecourt and support.

I know getting P5 transfers or "winning" the transfer wars each year is not a guarantee of being a good team and there are a lot of players in the portal and plenty of time I am just wondering if there are issues or perception issues that are making things difficult?

If the football program was struggling to bring in transfers I would agree, but the football staff has done an excellent job over the last 3 months bringing in transfers from all P5/G5 levels and cultural backgrounds.

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » April 13th, 2021, 10:12 am

CacheAggie wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 9:17 am
So everyone is freaking out and afraid that our program is going to be a dumpster fire. Come on people the new coach hasn’t even been here for two weeks. His philosophy is extremely different from Coach Smith’s, so we can expect some turnover and with the transfer rules this year giving everyone a free year, we can expect a lot of turnover across the board in college basketball. I for one am going to remain calm and wait and see how things turn next year. We can all panic when and if we turn into a dumpster fire on the court next season. Until that happens I think everyone need to calm down and realize that we all freaked out when Craig Smith was hired and things started off slowly for him as well. I think things turned out pretty good during his stay here.

Agreed, the coach did his introductory press conference last Tuesday. A week later and we are stressing out, which I admit when we don't hear things it gets frustrating. Our roster right now is not good for next year, but even keeping Worster and Anthony it was still going to be a rebuilding year next season. We still can bring in some impact players.

ineptimusprime · Post by **ineptimusprime** » April 13th, 2021, 10:28 am

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 10:02 am
Basically all the top UMBC players are in the portal

Come to Logan, RJ. It's just like London and Baltimore, except for more cows and mountains and less people.

ineptimusprime · Post by **ineptimusprime** » April 13th, 2021, 11:04 am

This is shocking. I feel like RayJ could have done better than Toledo. This just goes to show there are a lot of talented players in the portal looking for a home that could help us a lot.

AggiePT · Post by **AggiePT** » April 13th, 2021, 11:21 am

ineptimusprime wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:04 am

This is shocking. I feel like RayJ could have done better than Toledo. This just goes to show there are a lot of talented players in the portal looking for a home that could help us a lot.

This also shows that many of the departing players around the league are not going to climb the ladder to a big showy program like they hope.

Bank Shot · Post by **Bank Shot** » April 13th, 2021, 11:27 am

He's from the mid-west so perhaps he wanted to be closer to home. Plus Toledo's PG just transferred to Arizona State. He had the infamous moment against us in the melt down classic and started off strong this year but production and playing time fell off dramatically.

hipsterdoofus21 · Post by **hipsterdoofus21** » April 13th, 2021, 11:31 am

Bank Shot wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:27 am
He's from the mid-west so perhaps he wanted to be closer to home. Plus Toledo's PG just transferred to Arizona State. He had the infamous moment against us in the melt down classic and started off strong this year but production and playing time fell off dramatically.

He also suffers from short forehead.

slcagg · Post by **slcagg** » April 13th, 2021, 11:36 am

ineptimusprime wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:04 am

This is shocking. I feel like RayJ could have done better than Toledo. This just goes to show there are a lot of talented players in the portal looking for a home that could help us a lot.

He started off well this year but really played poor towards the end of the year. May have played a part in that as well in what other coaches saw.

We seem to have some players that started off well and struggled towards the end.

ineptimusprime · Post by **ineptimusprime** » April 13th, 2021, 11:57 am

hipsterdoofus21 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:31 am

Bank Shot wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:27 am
He's from the mid-west so perhaps he wanted to be closer to home. Plus Toledo's PG just transferred to Arizona State. He had the infamous moment against us in the melt down classic and started off strong this year but production and playing time fell off dramatically.
He also suffers from short forehead.

Resist...urge...to...make... Pokemon joke.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » April 13th, 2021, 11:58 am

ineptimusprime wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:04 am

This is shocking. I feel like RayJ could have done better than Toledo. This just goes to show there are a lot of talented players in the portal looking for a home that could help us a lot.

I'm not too shocked by this. This actually seems about right for him. He had one monster game against USU as a freshman.and that was his big contribution there. Other than that, he has been pretty ...... meh.

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 12:57 pm

Under the radar transfer prospect that we should consider

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 12:58 pm

Remember this name from last year

OrangeCountyAggie · Post by **OrangeCountyAggie** » April 13th, 2021, 1:02 pm

AggiePT wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:21 am

ineptimusprime wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 11:04 am

This is shocking. I feel like RayJ could have done better than Toledo. This just goes to show there are a lot of talented players in the portal looking for a home that could help us a lot.
This also shows that many of the departing players around the league are not going to climb the ladder to a big showy program like they hope.

BINGO! If Rollie (for example) doesn't land at Utah or decide to return, I'll bet he ends up at Montana or Montana State. There are 1,400 names in the transfer portal and what, maybe 100 - 120 (at most) open scholarships at P5 programs (not to mention incoming freshmen). The math doesn't add up.

OrangeCountyAggie · Post by **OrangeCountyAggie** » April 13th, 2021, 1:04 pm

aggies22 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:24 am

bpd wrote: ↑
April 12th, 2021, 9:00 pm

aggies22 wrote: ↑
April 12th, 2021, 8:45 pm
We've lost our top two offseason targets in the last 24 hours. The transfer portal $hit might be hitting the fan.
Wasn’t everyone just a few hours ago, saying relax, everything is going to be just fine.
I did say relax. I'm not saying panic either but we aren't off to a great start. Everybody else is getting better and we're stuck begging our own players to come back.

Who were they? Also is the coaching staff solely targeting transfer portal players or is he also looking at the HS ranks?

ThunderAggie · Post by **ThunderAggie** » April 13th, 2021, 1:57 pm

Here are 2 transfers that I find interesting. Both could add to our international roster.

Damion Squire (UC Davis)
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... ion-squire

Vladislav Goldin (Texas Tech)
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... id/4700818

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » April 13th, 2021, 2:48 pm

I think RJ eytle-rock ends up an Aggie.

AGGIEinIOWA · Post by **AGGIEinIOWA** » April 13th, 2021, 3:01 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:I think RJ eytle-rock ends up an Aggie.

Do you think Horvath or any other UMBC guys come along as well? Akin is his London buddy.

Aggiealum13 · Post by **Aggiealum13** » April 13th, 2021, 3:08 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 2:48 pm
I think RJ eytle-rock ends up an Aggie.

I bet we at least get one of those UMBC guys. There's usually always one that follows the coach.

hipsterdoofus21 · Post by **hipsterdoofus21** » April 13th, 2021, 3:12 pm

Aggiealum13 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 3:08 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 2:48 pm
I think RJ eytle-rock ends up an Aggie.
I bet we at least get one of those UMBC guys. There's usually always one that follows the coach.

I guess we'll find out the night of October 29th, 2021.

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 4:13 pm

I saw this, and I thought to share this.

bluegrouse · Post by **bluegrouse** » April 13th, 2021, 4:15 pm

If Worster won’t return, maybe Webster will.....

BLUERUFiO · Post by **BLUERUFiO** » April 13th, 2021, 4:20 pm

It's his smarter twin brother. Win for us if we get him.

tysteve20 · Post by **tysteve20** » April 13th, 2021, 5:41 pm

BLUERUFiO wrote:It's his smarter twin brother. Win for us if we get him.

I heard he plays baseball and throws a 101 mph fastball

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SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 6:41 pm

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm

MWC transfer

slcagg · Post by **slcagg** » April 13th, 2021, 6:57 pm

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:41 pm

Ouch. That kid was good. Hurts the conference.

hipsterdoofus21 · Post by **hipsterdoofus21** » April 13th, 2021, 7:18 pm

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm
MWC transfer

Fresno is gaining ground while others are losing it

ArizonaAggie · Post by **ArizonaAggie** » April 13th, 2021, 7:19 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm
MWC transfer

Fresno is gaining ground while others are losing it

Is the Yap kid any good?

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hipsterdoofus21 · Post by **hipsterdoofus21** » April 13th, 2021, 7:23 pm

ArizonaAggie wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 7:19 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm
MWC transfer

Fresno is gaining ground while others are losing it
Is the Yap kid any good?

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Yep

slcagg · Post by **slcagg** » April 13th, 2021, 7:40 pm

ArizonaAggie wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 7:19 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm
MWC transfer

Fresno is gaining ground while others are losing it
Is the Yap kid any good?

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Fairly highly recruited. Was a freshman last year that played in 5 games and averaged 1 pt.

ineptimusprime · Post by **ineptimusprime** » April 13th, 2021, 7:52 pm

Is the Yap kid any good?

Yap.

Just kidding. Hard pass on a guy that averaged 1 pt a game for a crappy UNLV team.

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » April 13th, 2021, 7:55 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 7:18 pm

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:52 pm
MWC transfer

Fresno is gaining ground while others are losing it

They seem like they're getting some good players but it has been this way for a couple of years with that team. But it seems like they always struggle to put everything together.

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » April 13th, 2021, 7:57 pm

slcagg wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:57 pm

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:41 pm

Ouch. That kid was good. Hurts the conference.

Coch Odom needs to get on the phone and give this kid a call and get him to Logan

SLB · Post by **SLB** » April 13th, 2021, 7:58 pm

Aggie84025 wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 7:57 pm

slcagg wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:57 pm

SLB wrote: ↑
April 13th, 2021, 6:41 pm

Ouch. That kid was good. Hurts the conference.
Coch Odom needs to get on the phone and give this kid a call and get him to Logan

Don't we have a connection with Wyoming via Odom?

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