2024 Offseason

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Scholarship Chart Update:

Anderson, Hutson
Campbell, Courbat, Weisbrod
Pock, Taylor (Jacobson, Miller)
Hornseth, Rubin (R.Born)

4 Open Rides

Right? Is Redek still purple?

[Wxcpanther]

Right? Is Redek still purple?

Yes, but he's a walk on for the first year

[Wxcpanther]

Cole has committed to UW-Green Bay. Happy for him, should be a very good player in the Horizon.

[BCPanther]

Right? Is Redek still purple?

You're right. I'll update.

He better not be going on scholarship.

[Blue42]

My cousin told me Coach Jacobson went on vacation, and other coaches are signing players?

....good Lord.

Wheels are turning folks. Take a beat and let things run their course.

[CyCarp]

Cole Henry heads to Green Bay

[CyCarp]

I'm just getting caught up on the Born news.
1. Seems odd, I'm guessing somebody came at him with $. TBH, I don't get how/why booster give these kids tens of thousands, it just makes no sense to me. Especially the kids who aren't stars. Seems to fit Fran's type - all offense, no D. Being undersized in the B10 will be interesting.
2. I absolutely hate NIL (at least what it's turned into) as much as anybody, but at the same time, we're complaining about this and only 2 of the guys we lost will be transferring up. Henry went down to the Horizon League, Duax went down, I'd be completely shocked if Wolf goes up and Ege certainly isn't going up. This is more than just an NIL thing. That's 3 guys who very likely would have been contributors next year (and 2 probably would have been starters) who are likely transferring down. That really makes me wonder what's going on.
3. I've been saying Jake needs to take a risk and get a DUDE for years now. He's tried a could times but it didn't come close to working out (Trey Croft, Chris Olivier). I'm tired of the exact same type of guys, and it's been that way for way too long.
4. I don't read too much into not being connected to guys. There's no doing in my mind the coaches are working behind the scenes. Somebody commented how Drake just signed a few guys - I'm pretty sure they all followed their coach to Drake, it's not coaches working the portal and signed the guys right away.
5. Honestly, I hope they focus on D2 studs and P5 guys transferring down. Just, for the love of God, please stop signing the exact player...

[Username]

Man this sucks.

I'm fully on board with the adapt or die, but it would have been at least nice to have one more year with the crew. Say what you want but Born was a big part of the UNI basketball brand and had a chance to be the all time leading scorer.

I've been optimistic for as long as possible, but truthfully it's gonna take us a while to transition from how we built programs in the past to how we want to be in the future. Which means we're gonna suck for a couple years.

The silver lining of this will be it's the hardest of ripping of the band-aid, but I'm still unsure where that leaves a couple of those upperclassmen.

[SteinPizza]

Cole has committed to UW-Green Bay. Happy for him, should be a very good player in the Horizon.

Henry did a nice job of improving from last year to this. No reason to think he won’t continue to put the work in for next season too, and it will show. I’m guessing this is a transfer we may look back on and regret.

[PantherAlum09]

You're right. I'll update.

He better not be going on scholarship.

This just seems inevitable doesn't it? Like I almost expect it now.

[Wxcpanther]

Henry did a nice job of improving from last year to this. No reason to think he won’t continue to put the work in for next season too, and it will show. I’m guessing this is a transfer we may look back on and regret.

I don't agree with that. I don't think he sees consistent minutes if Rubin had not gotten hurt. He absolutely improved, but the Horizon is a better fit for him.

[OhNewby]

I don't agree with that. I don't think he sees consistent minutes if Rubin had not gotten hurt. He absolutely improved, but the Horizon is a better fit for him.

This is the right take. Cole going to UW-GB is the best indication of what level he should be at.

[clenz]

This is the right take. Cole going to UW-GB is the best indication of what level he should be at.

Same with Daniel and going D2 and Duax heading to the ASUN (26th rated conference last season, below places like the Summit, MAAC, MAC, Big Sky, Horizon, and America East. FGCU was bottom half of that league and 279 overall).

I'd venture a very strong guess that Wolf end up at essentially that same level as well.

There's a reason I, and others, said when all this started that a large portion of the fan base was going to have a real hard wake up call where our actual talent was compared to where Jake managed to get us to finish and the rest of the league. Go look where a large portion of the league that has left has gone. It isn't the ASUN and D2.

However, as we've said, those are kids Jake recruited. He needs to change how he is building the roster moving forward.

[BCPanther]

Same with Daniel and going D2 and Duax heading to the ASUN (26th rated conference last season, below places like the Summit, MAAC, MAC, Big Sky, Horizon, and America East. FGCU was bottom half of that league and 279 overall).

I'd venture a very strong guess that Wolf end up at essentially that same level as well.

There's a reason I, and others, said when all this started that a large portion of the fan base was going to have a real hard wake up call where our actual talent was compared to where Jake managed to get us to finish and the rest of the league. Go look where a large portion of the league that has left has gone. It isn't the ASUN and D2.

However, as we've said, those are kids Jake recruited. He needs to change how he is building the roster moving forward.

Imagine Jake getting Dana Ford's roster last year with full buy in or anything Murray State runs out there.

[PantherAlum09]

I agree with all of this, but I think that's kind of the point. Jake and others recruit who they recruit because they do buy in to what the program wants to do. He has to take some chances and get some legitimate athletes.