@Kcmatt7 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

Really hoping Tiller and Rosario can be recruited back. Flory obviously as well

Kohl is up in the air now. Before today he was widely believe to be 100% gone so that is a shift.

Surprised we haven't seen more KU guys announce their intent to enter the portal.

https://x.com/thefieldof68/status/2040848178342150451

My first portal obsession. This guy REBOUND. This guy winner.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Not trying to bring politics to the thread, but El Jefe has issued an executive order to regulate college sports.

It includes a one time transfer rule. A second attempt requires the player to sit out a year.

I’m gonna guess most college sports fans really dislike the yearly free agency and wouldn’t mind seeing the executive order stick.

(I can make this a separate thread if anybody cares to weigh in)

I read some stuff that said it will basically amount to nothing and is completely unenforceable. It is just showing Congress what the NCAA and others want in a federal bill by using Trump as a proxy.

@crimsonblu22 Yes we recruited him out of highschool and Tony Bland recruited him to Washington. Pretty good player. Kind of like a deluxe version of Council.

Zoom Diallo is interesting.

RE Kohl. Believe he wouldn't mind staying. His dad on the other hand... I think dad wins out in the end.

@kjayhawks2.0 Wouldn't be surprised if Bill is just done dealing with his guardian. Will be telling if the first portal visitor is a big man.

@bskeet said in Bill Self:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7165839/2026/04/02/uconn-women-men-march-madness-financial-nil-comparison/?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

Worth a read about how UConn's finances are doled out to men's vs women's basketball and basketball vs football. Less of a surprise that they are in the FF after reading this.

Yeah they don't care about football at all. KU finally invested there.

@BeddieKU23 He's a recruiter. One of the first guys in awhile that wasn't one of Self's old cronies. If you want the definition of just stealing from Kansas, Doc Sadler is on the staff.

Expecting Bland to be back on staff. He did do some interviews while Self was undecided.

@approxinfinity said in Bill Self:

Who on this staff is going to lead us to the promised land in portal talent assessment? Vaughn? That's what I'd like to know. If we lose Flory, do we get someone like Punch, do we pursue the myriad of other competent players that @beddieku23 mentioned, or do we sit back and end up with 1 too few bigs and 1 too few shooters.

Bill declaring immediately is a good sign. Hopefully, he's all in and his staff is too.

I think Case will be somewhere else next season, will be interesting to see who replaces him.

As far as bigs, keep an eye on Mouhamed Sylla if Flory leaves. If he doesn't we will still need another big from the portal. One thing I am pretty sure of is if Stokes is added, one of Flory/Tiller is out of here at a minimum.

I'd love for him to be back, and I don't think it's decided either way.

Good to be back on the board fwiw, just needed a small refresh.

Phenomenal story here, love it.

@approxinfinity You might be down again soon, I know you like Flory and I think he will actually leave this time.

@Kcmatt7 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Alright fine, I'll take my 1st weekend exit glasses off. Now, I see your point.

I actually think the real indictment of the staff is they haven’t evaluated talent well enough in the NIL era.

Gone after big names instead of grinding the tape.

Yeah, this I agree with. They did a better job of it this last offseason. Melvin and Tre were hits, especially Melvin for what Bill loves but you wish he could have shot it a bit better. JD was the big miss. He got starter money to rack DNPs. That one really stung because they really could have used the shooting he offered. A big part of why things fell apart is because teams could blitz Darryn on ball screens because there was typically at most one other player out there that the defense had to truly respect from three point range. I can't really say any of those were lazy takes just going after names.

Dusty May is someone who has done an incredible job. Yaxel was obvious but none of their other portal additions were when you looked at most transfer ranking lists from last offseason.

Are we being serious in here??? Just now catching up. Yeah Maryland is what you get when Diggy is starting at guard. He was in the proper role at Kansas. Storr got benched by Chris Beard... My goodness.

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2026 Recruiting:

There was no actual date set so there was also no date pushed back.

People need to learn to read the ACTUAL REPORTING with quotes from the kid. Freaking Tipton causing this mess.

I come to you with more names...

Roberts Blums and Braden Frager

Boom!