2025 MBB Recruiting Thread 🏀

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FWIW, we’ve contacted at least 40 players with one commitment to the Niners and 14 to other schools.

TRANSFER PORTAL CONTACTS (4-15):

Player + former school → new school

Hasan Abdul Hakim 6-8 G UT Rio Grande Valley - ?

Deyton Albury 6-2 G SR Utah State - ?

Blake Barkley 6-7 F FR Northwestern → East Tennessee

Isaiah Barnes 6-7 G JR Tulsa - ?

Braxton Bayless 6-2 G SR Western Kentucky - ?

Quante Berry 6-4 G SO Temple → Memphis

Karris Bilal (OV) 6-2 G FR Vanderbilt - ?

Derrin Boyd 6-3 G SR Charleston - ?

Karon Boyd 6-5 G JR East Tennessee → Wichita State

Vincent Brady II 6-4 G JR Missouri State → High Point

Garry Clark 6-8 F SR Texas A&M Corpus Christi → Utah State

MJ Collins 6-4 G JR Vanderbilt - ?

Arden Conyers 6-7 G FR South Carolina → CHARLOTTE

Jake Davis 6-4 G SO West Valley (JuCo - CA) → Cal Poly

Nick Dorn 6-7 G SO - Elon - ?

Gabe Dynes 7-3 C SO Youngstown State → USC

Ice Emery 6-0 G JR Western Carolina - ?

Javon Ervin 6-3 G JR Mount St. Mary’s -

Colby Garland 6-1 G SO Longwood - ?

Stephen Giwa 6-9 F JR Texas A&M Corpus Christi - ?

Ty Harper 6-3 G SR Youngstown State - ?

Damoni Harrison (OV) 6-5 G JR Southern Indiana - ?

Josh Holloway 6-2 G SO Samford - ?

Chandler Jackson 6-5 G JR Florida State - ?

RJ Johnson 6-1 G JR Charleston Southern → Rhode Island

Jemel Jones 6-4 G JR Cal State Bakersfield - ?

Davius Loury 6-7 F SO John A. Logan (JuCo - IL) - ?

Robert McCray V 6-4 G JR Jacksonville → Florida State

Kory Mincy 6-1 G SO Presbyterian → George Mason

Dominick Nelson 6-5 G JR Utah Valley - ?

Joshua O’Garo 6-6 G SR Texas State - ?

Stephen Olowoniyi 6-8 F SO Southern Indiana - ?

Rakease Passmore 6-5 G FR Kansas - ?

Sami Pissis 6-3 G JR New Hampshire - ?

Ketron Shaw 6-5 G JR UMES → Old Dominion

Alex Steen 6-9 PF JR Florida Southern (D-II) → Florida State

Emmanuel Ugbo (OV) 6-8 F SO Boise State - ?

Gavin Walsh 6-8 F SO Binghamton → UNC Wilmington

Jacari White 6-3 G SR North Dakota State → Virginia

Kam Woods 6-2 G SR Robert Morris - ?

(OV) = known to have made campus visit

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What day was set up for student tryouts again ?

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The pride of Pinetops, NC in the portal.

https://x.com/portal_updates/status/1912229718473965868

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Losing Cross sucks and shows just how messed up the NIL world is today.

There are still more than 65% of the players that entered the portal that have not “committed” yet.

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We don’t know that it was nil related

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Another headed elsewhere.

https://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/1912264624088707271

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Seriously??? EVERYTHING is NIL related. He and his family reflected on the insane money being thrown around and wanted to jump back in the pool.

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Nil plus winning matter. Im not talking about turning down 600k for 150k. Im talking about turning down a modest difference to go to a winning program

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I would add style of play as well.

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Definitely

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I think he was waiting to see what kind of talent we surrounded him with, and his decommitment says all that we need to know

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Good Times Money GIF

We just lost current players off of the football team to the portal. Is it style of play as well? Wait they hadn’t played a game for us yet.

It seems the only answer some have on here is “fire the coach” or “fire the AD”. This new world of open portal and NIL is almost impossible to navigate for any coach. And every coach, no matter the conference, will have up and down years because every year they will have almost completely new rosters. Sucks out loud.

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When I say style of play, that doesn’t mean the coach has to be fired. Was Fearne running our system in the NBL? I highly doubt it. I’m just saying this style is less than fun to watch and has to be a little bit of a limiting factor in recruiting.

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I believe Fearne runs his “style” based on personnel. If we had not had a slower pace of play last year, with the injuries and such that limited our depth, we would have not been in some games. His “style” got guys good, open looks that they couldn’t knock down.

I know Fearne is a great coach and tactician. His resume supports that conclusion.

The real issue is can we get over the hump in recruiting and getting kids out of the portal that aren’t damaged goods (oden). Unfortunately for all but the Power 4/5 and a few “mid majors” with huge donors (Memphis), we are all facing the same challenges.

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His resume supports him being a great coach? How? He underachieved last year with really good p4 talent, and we were terrible this year

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We have 1.5 million in nil and can’t and anyone good with this staff. Dude can’t recruit

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And another Niner contact headed to the Golden State:

https://x.com/247HSHoops/status/1912567543031791899

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Let it play out. There are still 60%+ of kids still in the portal. You don’t have a clue, nor do I, who this coaching staff has been recruiting heavily or who they had to pass on because they got outbid.

If he can’t recruit of coach he will be gone. As with all of our coaching and AD changes you will be helping them pack. Then when the next one comes you will start up the “fire coach x” thread.

Pretty exhausting all the way around.

Breathe Chill Out GIF by CSDRMS

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Keep in mind a tremendous percentage of the kids in the portal NEVER find a new home, so if we are down to 60% that means the pool of good talent is definitely getting fairly small.

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Can we stop with this gaslighting? Acting like we want him fired for no reason. He is not even contacting guys that ca be good at this level, that we can get. The vandy transfer who visited is terrible, meanwhile we barely contact colby garland. Keep defending poor results