He is crazy. Stay at Columbia.
2026 Portal Prospects
- Thread starter MrTbone
- Start date
Guards:
AA
Harper
Richardson
Simmons
Mooney
Forwards:
JRob
Tanner
Daughtry
Cook
Caldwell
Big:
Homenick
* Wow, we have A LOT of needs in the portal. Am I missing anyone?
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Assistant coach
That looks right to me. Agree, we need a ton in the portal. Need to add positional size and athleticism. Hoping for a couple step down guys like Pasha types that would add this. The guys with + quickness like AA and Simmons are small. Wings and forward are medium to low athleticism. Hopeful that Richardson fits the bill but we all know the redshirt track record so not holding my breath. Hoping for the best but even with additional $, I can see a scenario where Moon totally strikes out, worse than last two portals.
MRspider95
Walk-on
JRob is staying right?
Ty. Missed him. I will add him. So, I guess only 4 spots left. Walk ons count toward the 15.
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
IIRC Ivy League teams do not pay NIL? So even if he goes somewhere and gets a nominal amount (whatever that is these days) it’s more than zero. Think of it as he’s getting entry level job pay for 2 years of playing low level hoops.
sman
All A-10 player
ah. forgot about that. hopefully at the very least we can save NIL money on the young Mooney.
TBone ... we all think of JRob as a forward but Mooney seems to think of him as a big. not that it changes your chart much.
Mooney did mention playing 2 "bigs" together though, but that might just be a center with a big forward. he doesn't seem to consider Daughtry a big, so maybe we add 2 bigger guys in the portal and slide Daughtry to Tanner's starting spot?
sman
All A-10 player
I heard some Ivy kids might have been getting NIL last season. just the top guys though.
sman
All A-10 player
what's a DSA?
Designated Student Athlete...it's the term for those who got grandfathered in rather than losing their spots due to the House settlement roster limits.
97spiderfan
All A-10 player
Yep, Rothstein posted last night the average P5 starter 2 years ago was being paid $750,000 in 2024. Today, the going rate is 4 to 5 times that amount. First, dear god, this system is broken.
Secondly, we are increasing our NIL 2-2.5 times that amount. We are not even keeping up with the market with that increase. So, yeah, it looks like a bigger increase on the surface but all relative we are falling even further behind the curve with NIL.
So anyone thinking us to expect hitting portal pay dirt with our increase this year, expect to see more of what we did the past 2 years.
One all-league caliber power conference player, not the average starter.
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
So is the system broken? Or was the concept of amateurism in a system that paid coaches millions, schools millions, with a broadcast deal worth billions, and players zero, the real broken aspect? Everything except the paying of players has been a professional operation for decades, with thousands of individuals profiting massively from it.
To me, this is just players catching up to a system that shunted them out of the profits they have a giant part in creating.
Show me a sport / program that can occupy so much television real estate for five months of a year, and what is that worth?
In reality, the players should be making pro money which some are starting to get, but there is no cohesion on how to operate with roster building and accurate payments if everyone is a free agent every season.
Would everyone have issues if there were new transfer rules put back in place to promote stability? Or NIL deals were 4 years for same school, could be updated daily to reflect production but could only be replaced/broken with a transfer one time - effectively to update if a guy improves enough to transfer up or needs to transfer down?
so that a guy from Kansas was effectively on the equivalent of an NBA first contract, with increases for each of 4 years. If he's not up to par, school can cancel it. If he is amazing and Kentucky wants to double his money, he can break it.
Basically - do most people have issues with the money or the nonstop free agency? If UR could pay the same guys for 4 years at increasing scale, would you care if they made 100k or 1.2m?
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
To. me the real broken aspect is Chris Mooney making $25 million over 20 years because Kevin Anderson played extremely well for 4 years. How much did KA get?
Sections 204and5
Bench player
I have much more of an issue with the "non-stop free agency" than I do with the money. If these players are truly pros now, look at the professional leagues and you can see there is no absolute freedom of movement. It takes years before someone can become a free agent in the NFL, MLB etc. This recognizes the investment teams put into each player. Specific to Richmond, my waning interest in MBB is about 95% on Mooney with the rest being on the constant need to rebuild a team every year.
As to the money involved, I'm 100% OK with athletes being paid. But I find the dollar amounts involved to be obscene. I realize this makes me a dinosaur, but when a freshman point guard is making more than all/most professors then I think things are seriously out of whack.
Cool. So 5 it is.
I don't think it is as negative as you think. We aren't competing against P5s. Well, I guess overall we are, but our increase in NIL should put us in good shape in the A-10. Sure, we still might be behind a few schools in the A-10, but I don't think that is an excuse for poor play, and I certainly can't agree that with our increased NIL, we should see the same results this year that we saw last year.
Bottom line is we can land plenty of good players with our NIL. It is up to the coaches to find the right fits, and then give them good coaching. I refuse to use our NIL as even 1% of an excuse for our results.
sman
All A-10 player
can you name a professor at any of the 68 schools in March Madness?
I bet you can name some players.
athletes generate revenue. professors don't. people have complained forever that actors make so much money and high school teachers don't.
actors generate revenue.
