2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread
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@rockchalkjayhawk is there a rest of the story?
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@crimsonblu22 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk is there a rest of the story?
Ha, for sure. Left out lots during and after!
I think the next day i somehow caught a flight down to south carolina, but how i got all my belongings there is a distant memory.
One of my buddies picked me up at the airport and took me to our rented condo (with cable we stole from the unit next door). they were bummed about my car, because it would have been one of our main means of transportation for the summer.
A few days later we simply walked into the Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club and asked for jobs. As luck would have it, they needed greenskeepers and general workers for the golf courses they had. Three if i recall. We mowed the greens every day, cleaned up the bunkers, cut trees, you name it. There was one hole you had to be very careful when mowing the greens and grass ... there was a cranky alligator in the greenside pond!
After we worked under the hot sun all day, we'd hit the condo pool area and drink and nap for a few hours, then head out on the town. Rinse, repeat all summer. Fun.
At the end of the summer, i didn't have a way back to KU, so me and a buddy or two rented a car and drove up the East Coast toward our families. BTW, it's not easy to rent a car when you're 18-19 years old. I can't even remember the hoops we had to jump through. We stopped in Virginia to drop off one guy, and his mom was kind enough to cook us a great Southern meal. My first time eating a twice-backed potato. mmm.
Ended up at my family home, and a week later had to hop a flight back to KU.
Coulda made a movie of that summer i think.
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https://blog.evanmiya.com/p/nil-market-trends-you-need-to-know
Good read on how much the market has ballooned from last yr.
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@rockchalkjayhawk pretty crazy! No car your first yr at KU?
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@crimsonblu22 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk pretty crazy! No car your first yr at KU?
totally crazy! back at that age you hardly sweat that kinda stuff, huh.
I had a few cars (clunkers) during my KU years. I guess living in the dorms you don't really need it much, but came in handy once i moved off campus. The tipsy walk to Naismith Drive back from The Hawk was always fun late at night ...
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Joson Sanon in the portal again. Might be time to look at him again
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Took a look at the miya rankings for the guys KSU brought in
Monatana Wheeler #488
Timotej Malovec #381
JT Rock #193
Isaiah Abraham #500
Matt Gilhool #914
Jaden Schutt #374
Dezdrick Lindsay #145
Brandon Rechsteiner #447
Brock Vice #942
If we are a bit broke (we kind of are) there may not even be a word for what KSU is..
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ISU
Ryan Prather #237
Tre Singleton #78
Jaquan Johnson #47
Taj Manning #607
Leon Bond #186
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What are the real odds that this 'play 5 in 5 years' rule goes through and would it potentially affect this upcoming season?
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@focojayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
What are the real odds that this 'play 5 in 5 years' rule goes through and would it potentially affect this upcoming season?
Not sure but offers have been pulled and a lot of programs are going to wait it out. It's creating a big mess.
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@focojayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
What are the real odds that this 'play 5 in 5 years' rule goes through and would it potentially affect this upcoming season?
Pretty good. Now it’s not clear whether the NCAA will open up another portal window for those guys or not. Then you’ll be limited to the guys like Council who entered just hoping they’d get another year and graduate students who the normal deadlines don’t apply to.
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Question for those who know more about this: did Louisville just recruit over Flory? They landed Ekezie a 7-foot rim runner, albeit a young one. I like Flory a lot and wish we still had him (though not at 5M), but I’m not above enjoying the idea that his playing time just decreased.
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Melvin already played 2 years of of junior college and 3 years at D1, so does the 5 in 5 rule change even help him?
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If Flory goes nba, doesn't he give up those millions! Seems like a dumb question!
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@HoraceZontal I don't think Ekezie will be better than Flory next season. Plus, they could certainly play together.
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I was just reading about Louisville's high reliance of private NIL for their basketball program. It looks like their institutional direct-revenue sharing NIL for this campaign is $20.5 mil. I wonder what their total spending on NIL will be? Didn't we recently receive a huge donation directly to our AD from the Booth family? I'm reading that our rev share to basketball players is a little over $14 mil. I know we have the cost of the football stadium dampening our balance sheet but this could be Self's last year and it seems weird we don't show more appreciation.
I smell a run! (better buy more toilet paper)
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Don't know the answer to those questions but wanted to note I think it is more likely than not that Self is back for a couple more years if he can avoid another heart incident and he hasn't made it back to the F4 (though another heart incident seems likely after 2 in the last 3 or so years).
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@drgnslayr that’s a good observation about the 2 buckets of NIL: private and RevShare. KU uses about 1/3 of its RevShare budget for basketball, which is about as large as you’ll find. Each school has a hard RevShare cap of like $21.3m in the 26-27 year. So we’ll spend probably a bit over $7m on basketball RevShare. Football takes the lion’s share just because of roster numbers. Other sports take whatever is left.
Private NIL (I’ve also seen it referred to as “pure NIL” since it’s ostensibly for actual NIL use) is unlimited but (allegedly) each deal has to be cleared with the NILGo clearinghouse run by Deloitte. Schools that are spending insane amounts are basically daring Deloitte and the NCAA to void these deals since they’re clearly far above fair market value as they define it.
For big money rosters, you’ll see the latter outnumber the former by 3:1 or even 4:1. We compete fine in terms of RevShare but we don’t have the donor base to compete with the biggest spenders, especially given all the other expenses in the AD and revenue disadvantage from being in a second tier league.
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Sounds logical. But why is everyone throwing around this number of $14 mil NIL budget we have this year?
