Two clarifications: One, there’s a big difference between what’s happening now and what will happen if/when House is finalized. Now booster collectives can collude with schools (this is and has been happening at Davidson too) and have no limits on what they can pay. But the schools themselves can’t ...

Post-House NIL deals will have to be “true” NIL deals. That means arms-length, fair-market transactions that are not intended to evade the cap on schools’ payments to athletes in order to induce an athlete to come to a particular school. Examples: - A celebrity athlete (like Cooper Flagg) doing a na...

Davidson is losing its top five* players in terms of points per game and minutes per game. Those five (Bailey, Kochera, Durkin, Laput, and Loughnane) combined for an average of 60.6 points per game (of 72.52 for the team) and 148.1 minutes per game (of 200)—also 22 of the team’s 33.2 rebounds per ga...

This thread is a journey. The first page is full of musing about what kinds of players would best complement Bailey and Durkin. Oops.

Bobby Durkin has entered the portal. https://x.com/247hshoops/status/1904161683720790326?s=61 Bobby is, reportedly, visiting Ohio State. https://x.com/jackmmaurer/status/1906055315415814616?s=61 Cal (-ifornia, not -ipari) has also reached out: https://x.com/CAL_SPORTS_/status/1904208501469241557?re...

Acorn wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:10 pm

Posting this list of transfers in this thread: https://verbalcommits.com/transfers

And here’s On3’s ranking of the transfers:
https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/ind ... asketball/

Bailey listed as the tenth-best transfer.

Welcome, Parker! And congratulations, all!

HS highlights: https://youtu.be/MBJLke16QWg

WFU highlights: https://youtu.be/GupQHtA1Dxs

Lloyd: https://youtu.be/cbrTKw50X6U

People on here should be rooting for the cap and associated rules prohibiting inducement. Once the cap goes into effect, Alabama won’t be able to spend $20 million on one player—rather, if they do, they’ll have just $500,000 left to give to all other athletes. The pseudo-sophisticated thing to do is...

A Kentucky message board has a 3-page thread about Reed entering the portal. It started on 3/18. I'm sure it is all clean and honorable. They wouldn't tamper and try to entice a player to enter the portal... https://kentucky.forums.rivals.com/threads/if-reed-bailey-goes-into-the-portal.430018/ I he...

MLC67 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:10 pm

While Reed’s statement sounds definitive, it does not say he is leaving, just expresses thanks for all he has gained at our school. He does say that he has decided to enter the portal. Accordingly, hope has not been extinguished by Reed’s non-farewell.

Hahaha. Ok. You and Lloyd Christmas.

Read Reed’s announcement. He’s gone.