NCAA 2024 MBB Transfer Portal

[Wags]

I believe its like a duck swimming in the pond. All looks calm and collected, but underneath the water the feet are paddling furiously!

I want to believe this but...

The problem is, us faithful want MORE information and trnasparency.
We are not getting any of that...so our doubt about the program is filling the information void.
Not good...

Yes, exactly!

[Mikey77]

The athletic department has no credibility with me at this point. The spin they put on everything belongs in Washington. Most of the athletic programs have been declining for years and I see little reason to believe that will change.

[cactus]

Looks like Aranguren to Utah State

[Pbdutch]

Guys, there are still hunderds of talented players in the portal and plenty of time to add them to the roster...I for one am confident we will build a competitive roster.
This is typical of this program...we hear nothing then BANG! A player signs...keep the faith!

Sorry-I think you’re being a little too optimistic. We should’ve taken advantage of the good teams we had and won to get to the dance. Now Hofstra is doomed with this NIL garbage going on because the school doesn’t want to fund athletics

[Pbdutch]

Looks like Aranguren to Utah State

They’re a good team. They were a 10 seed in the Tourney and Wilmington was a 14. Crazy! I was just curious and looked up what the Utah state basketball coach makes and it wasn’t like he had a tremendous record prior as he was the coach at Youngstown state.

His base salary was increased from his first year in 2024 to 1.85MIL next year. I know that’s a salary that’s way above any CAA coach salary, but it shows Utah State is invested in sports now preventing him from leaving.

Curious-does anyone know what Speedy’s salary is? Hofstra posts absolutely nothing and I’d be curious to hear what his deal is…

[Pbdutch]

if Hofstra is going to continue to remain in the CAA, then the school needs to compete FINANCIALLY with the top of the conference in men's basketball, it's flagship sport. And right now that certainly does not seem to be the case. To settle for mediocrity on the basis of money would be a slap in the face to the few loyal fans the program has left. And mediocre money for the CAA I would think would still be enough money to field a higher-end roster in a lower league. Not what I want to see - Sorry dutchPride86 - Hofstra WILL DO NOTHING.

It's the leadership and its priorities, and how the money is spent. Even though college sports like men's hoops are basically the same as the pros now, these are still, first and foremost, academic institutions with their budgeting. As a Hofstra alum and huge Hofstra men's hoops fan, I'm torn. I would love nothing more in an ideal world than for Speedy to turn his own alma mater into the next Gonzaga (or to even make the dance once right now). But I'm also proud that Hofstra places such an importance on, I guess, what should be most important from an academic perspective.

As we've noted here before, the money is there - Hofstra's endowment is 5-6 times that of UNCW's or Charleston's - but those schools place a much greater emphasis on sports (particularly men's basketball) than Hofstra seems to. Relative to Charleston, it's hard to blame Hofstra that much, as Charleston only ranks between 392 and 434. However, guess who's tied in current national college rankings: UNCW and Hofstra, each at 196.

With an endowment of possibly 5-6 times greater than UNCW (we've noted before that Hofstra's was $884 million last year and UNCW's was $154 million as of June, 2023), and especially this many years after dropping the cost of its football program, it would seem that Hofstra should either A) be ranked significantly higher as an academic school than UNCW or B) at least be on par or even surpass where UNCW is with its flagship athletics program (men's hoops) rather than dropping this much behind UNCW in men's hoops from where they both were only a two years ago (when Hofstra was a 1 seed and played an OT semifinal game against UNCW). I don't know all that goes into it so I can't really say, but all of that, at least on the surface, would seem that UNCW, is far more effectively balancing academics and athletics (at least for men's hoops) than Hofstra is with a lot less money at its disposal.

Yes-and I don’t want to offend anyone because I’m a Hofstra alum as well, but let’s not kid ourselves here, Hofstra isn’t that “great” of a school. Is it a respected school? Absolutely! And is it considered better than a UNCW or a Towson as far as academics go, yes, but it’s not Ivy League and it’s no where near it. And to reiterate, they do have a nice solid endowment and if a school such as Utah state (I know not in our conference, just setting an example) has an endowment nearly $400 million less than ours and can afford to pay a head coach $1.85MIL after making one tourney then Hofstra can Certainly pony up and start backing the flagship sport for us.

[speedys_burner]

2024 Freshman class profile SAT/ACT middle 50%
William & Mary - 1400-1530
Northeastern - 1460 - 1530
Stony Brook - 1330-1470
Hofstra - 1260-1440
UNCW - 1220 -1370
Elon - 1200 - 1360
Drexel - 1190-1390
Towson - 1170-1320
CofC - 1140-1310
Monmouth - 1110 - 1300
Campbell - 1033-1230

[Jojogunne]

Simeon Wilcher from Roselle Catholic is leaving St. John’s. He didn’t play much there. Do we have a shot at the 6-4 PG?

[dutchPride86]

Looks like Aranguren to Utah State

Did Jean commit or just take an official visit? Either way if he's getting looks from schools of Utah St's caliber no way he's coming back.

Saw Farmer committed to Umass Lowell today and Parnell recently landed at FDU. In both those cases you'd assume those are playing time related decisions (I seriously hope Hofstra still has more money to spend than those 2 schools). So in that case, where are the kids demonstrably better to replace them? I'd like to think Hofstra wouldn't have just let those 2 go if they had no intention of upgrading over them. The 2 kids we've signed so far don't exactly inspire confidence they've even done that

[Jojogunne]

I may be wrong, but in terms of NIL money, doesn’t that come from a collective and not the school?

[bean-pie]

I’ve been watching Hofstra’s rank fall year over year since I graduated. 128 down to 195 or something like that. This is after we pumped money into the medical school and three presidential debates. I’m not going to lie, based on the overall status, we’d have been better off pumping the debate money into athletics. People are one, uniformed, two, could care less about politics beyond what Joe Rogan feeds them. I’m seeing a major missed opportunity, but something tells me I’m in the minority. As much as we want to acknowledge it or not, sports drives economies and puts students in the classroom based off “Pride”. Look at Saban and Alabama - Tuscaloosa was brought from the dead because of that one coach and their football team.


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[triplec2195]

No question there is a strong correlation to enrollment and winning sports. We need to have the right president of the university Rabinowitz wasn't and it seems like the jury is out on Poser.

[Pbdutch]

I’ve been watching Hofstra’s rank fall year over year since I graduated. 128 down to 195 or something like that. This is after we pumped money into the medical school and three presidential debates. I’m not going to lie, based on the overall status, we’d have been better off pumping the debate money into athletics. People are one, uniformed, two, could care less about politics beyond what Joe Rogan feeds them. I’m seeing a major missed opportunity, but something tells me I’m in the minority. As much as we want to acknowledge it or not, sports drives economies and puts students in the classroom based off “Pride”. Look at Saban and Alabama - Tuscaloosa was brought from the dead because of that one coach and their football team.

^^Totally agreed. What a waste of time with the money spent on the presidential debates. No one cared and what does that even do for the school. Not like kids want to go to Hofstra because of presidential debates anyways. Agree with the medical school as well. I’m not sitting here saying Hofstra isn’t a good academic school, but in todays day and age you’re either an Ivy League or a Stanford, Duke, Chapel Hill, etc…there no in between. Hofstra would be much better spent improving athletics and getting better with sports. The other stuff would follow, but athletics drives the schools. Not comparing Ole Miss to Hofstra because it’s two very different schools and two very different conferences, but when I graduated all the dumb kids went to ole miss and they would’ve accepted anyone. Now, Ole Miss is actually a decent academic school and they don’t just accept anyone anymore. Ole Miss athletics have greatly improved over the last 10 years..

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[mikey75]

I disagree that the presidential debates were a waste of money. I applaud the medical school and the new DeMatteis school of engineering. I do agree that the administration has not appreciated the impact an athletic program can have on a university.

[cactus]

Khalil Farmer to UMass

[dutchPride86]

Khalil Farmer to UMass

Umass Lowell of America East not Umass of A10 (or i guess MAC now). We did apparently have a big from Umass in for a visit though...

https://x.com/AustinGoetsche_/status/19 ... h-FKw&s=19

[triplec2195]

Looks like we have to settle now rather than being selective. This kid is local from Queens. Maybe an Andre Walker type guy from years gone by!

[Jojogunne]

Khalil Farmer to UMass

Umass Lowell of America East not Umass of A10 (or i guess MAC now). We did apparently have a big from Umass in for a visit though...

https://x.com/AustinGoetsche_/status/19 ... h-FKw&s=19

Three schools in three years. Will we be his fourth?

https://umassathletics.com/sports/mens- ... mmad/16518

As they say, you can't teach height.

UMass Lowell makes more sense for Farmer. I wish him the best.

[Wags]

Guys, there are still hunderds of talented players in the portal and plenty of time to add them to the roster...I for one am confident we will build a competitive roster.
This is typical of this program...we hear nothing then BANG! A player signs...keep the faith!

Sorry-I think you’re being a little too optimistic. We should’ve taken advantage of the good teams we had and won to get to the dance.

That's the thing right now. Had they danced in 2016 (when they lost in the finals in OT), in 2023 (when they had the 1 seed with Estrada), and maybe once or twice more (including the 2019 CAA title game as a 1 seed with JWF, against 2 seed Northeastern), last year's dropoff, and if the same should continue next year, would be much easier to take. We would simply say, "Well that's how the cycle goes sometimes. They were champions four times in the last decade and now it's a downtime. But qualifying only once for the dance - and it happens to be the worst luck possible, that they didn't even get to participate in the NCAAT - makes the downturn (IF that's what this is now) seem worse than it is.

[Wags]

Looks like Aranguren to Utah State

They’re a good team. They were a 10 seed in the Tourney and Wilmington was a 14. Crazy! I was just curious and looked up what the Utah state basketball coach makes and it wasn’t like he had a tremendous record prior as he was the coach at Youngstown state.

His base salary was increased from his first year in 2024 to 1.85MIL next year. I know that’s a salary that’s way above any CAA coach salary, but it shows Utah State is invested in sports now preventing him from leaving.

Curious-does anyone know what Speedy’s salary is? Hofstra posts absolutely nothing and I’d be curious to hear what his deal is…

Utah State is a great mid-major program. If Jean gets good playing time there, that's a great move for him. They've managed to win a lot despite being forced to change head coaches a few times in recent years. And it's also one of the best mid-major - even overall, throughout college hoops - homecourt environments to play in front of. If Jean plays significant minutes and produces well there, they'll will absolutely love him there.

That's also what I was saying before, that he didn't need to necessarily go to a power league to not return to Hofstra, he could've gone somewhere in between that's a step up. The MWC is exactly that. And he'll have a great chance to dance with them.