2026 Portal Prospects

[MrTbone]

OU 5.5 returners is my line. Unsure about Tanner. Guy says Tyne is gone — Mooney and him have never gotten along. Mooney needs a cerebral PG… Tyne has just never connected in that way with Mooney.

This is fascinating. Tanner strikes me as a four year guy but he better not be starting here next year, his last two years as a starter have shown him to be a steady but largely non-impact player.

Tyne I can see, slowly supplanted by AA. With Simmons incoming then perhaps further concerned about his PT.

 

[Spiderguy]

This is fascinating. Tanner strikes me as a four year guy but he better not be starting here next year, his last two years as a starter have shown him to be a steady but largely non-impact player.

Tyne I can see, slowly supplanted by AA. With Simmons incoming then perhaps further concerned about his PT.

Remember - this is Mooneyville. Both those guys started most of this season. Right or wrong / good or bad - both probably back and start for loyalty factor coach. Neither would get offers to better teams.

 

[spiderinsider]

This is fascinating. Tanner strikes me as a four year guy but he better not be starting here next year, his last two years as a starter have shown him to be a steady but largely non-impact player.

Tyne I can see, slowly supplanted by AA. With Simmons incoming then perhaps further concerned about his PT.

I’m conflicted here too. He is a good kid and I do truly think he wants to graduate with a Richmond degree. I just wonder whether he can compete with big time transfer wings + I do think he will get his freshman year back. So I do see a world where he transfers down to a lower level to get 25+ mins a game and stuffs the stats then tries to get paid for a 5th year. That’s just my personal take there.

 

[MrTbone]

Remember - this is Mooneyville. Both those guys started most of this season. Right or wrong / good or bad - both probably back and start for loyalty factor coach. Neither would get offers to better teams.

No, but as spiderinsder said below, maybe they want to transfer down and try to be a bigger contributor.

 

[spiderinsider]

This is fascinating. Tanner strikes me as a four year guy but he better not be starting here next year, his last two years as a starter have shown him to be a steady but largely non-impact player.

Tyne I can see, slowly supplanted by AA. With Simmons incoming then perhaps further concerned about his PT.

Mooney, Homenick, Robinson, Richardson, Harper are the only ones I’m sure about. AA I’m 75% sure will be back. I do think he will be looking at a 500K returners fee from PQ and company given what I know about what other schools are offering. Ideally, the NIL takes a significant increase, or else our transfer recruiting might struggle if our 1.8-2 number stays the same. I think Tanner is 50/50. I would be willing to say that everyone else is more likely than not to be on the way out.

 

[Spiderguy]

No, but as spiderinsder said below, maybe they want to transfer down and try to be a bigger contributor.

I’m not getting that. Both prob getting some NIL here???? Probably getting more here than if transfer down. Playing at a good school with good facilities. Both getting decent minutes. You have to wonder if ego minutes of transferring down is really a priority for them. I wouldn’t think so, but maybe I’m reading their situations incorrectly.

 

[MrTbone]

I’m not getting that. Both prob getting some NIL here???? Probably getting more here than if transfer down. Playing at a good school with good facilities. Both getting decent minutes. You have to wonder if ego minutes of transferring down is really a priority for them. I wouldn’t think so, but maybe I’m reading their situations incorrectly.

I think they got decent minutes this year but are both trending down. We sucked this year, there should be big changes and two guys who were not real impactful may see their minutes bottoming out and want to play elsewhere.

I personally think they’d be ok bench guys but if they’re starting next year then there’s a considerable concern.

 

[brooklyn brownstone]

Personally, I think Tyne could be a good guard at a lower level playing in a system better suited for him. With his jumper improvement this season, at a lower level he could be that volume shooter/scorer that he can't be in the Milkmoon's scheme. His midrange and finishing at the rim was still poor, and his advanced stats were just really not great, but maybe that would improve against lesser competition.

Tanner - I'm not sure he'd be a stat stuffer at a lower level, much less one who would do enough to get paid as a 5th year senior. His game feels very complementary to me. Even if he averaged 10 ppg at a lower level, what does that pay, given that he has A10 stats to show he wouldn't be an impact bench guy to any league A10 or above. So I don't know who would be paying him. I do hope he's able to get a UR degree and I feel like he will probably return, get the degree, come off the UR bench and then try to get that 5th year, which he'll use elsewhere.

this is all so laughable to be in this spot with this veteran of a coach.

 

[Spider17]

Mooney, Homenick, Robinson, Richardson, Harper are the only ones I’m sure about. AA I’m 75% sure will be back. I do think he will be looking at a 500K returners fee from PQ and company given what I know about what other schools are offering. Ideally, the NIL takes a significant increase, or else our transfer recruiting might struggle if our 1.8-2 number stays the same. I think Tanner is 50/50. I would be willing to say that everyone else is more likely than not to be on the way out.

The “Ask Me Anything” thread you started, I’ll ask the questions here since it’s more relevant to these discussions.

1. Any word on how much payroll - roughly - we’re going to be operating with next year?
2a. How is the staff approaching the transfer portal?
2b. How does NIL/payroll fit into the picture? Meaning going after 1-2 guys we know will be great, impact players who we offer a ton of NIL to or if we have a lot of open spots, do we try to get like 4-5 good-solid players who we can hope develop and play well together?
3. Any idea how we’re going to approach scheduling OOC games next season?

 

[*23*]

Good questions 17. Before the season started I shared VTs disgust with the schedule. I appreciate VT highlighting it all season. To me, it just shows the utter lack of commitment to winning that permeates the program. All starts and ends with Mooney. I know sman thinks you schedule to your talent so to speak. That is not how the top mid majors operate.. The top teams schedule tough every year. Practice hard EVERY year. Innovate EVERY year. Attack the portal every year. Get the NIL funds every year. Every year. Mooney doesn't do this. Now he does WHINE and complain EVERY year.

Will be interested to hear the answers to these questions.

 

[Spiderguy]

A lot of speculation and opinion from all of us on Tyne and Tanner. A lot of it makes perfectly good sense on an internet portal, and personally I believe some of the discussion is logical. Further, if things played out as some think, we’d probably be better off next year.

But remember - this is us. In the end, it’s Mooney making decisions. This is the same Mooney that none of wants back, same Moon who has taken us to the current depths, same Moon who blows massive end of game leads, same Moon who we continue to question his starting lineups and ineffective use of players.

So, bottom line - we need to expect the illogical and not what WE want, and think what WE would do in projecting forward.

With little exception, it’s reasonably easy to project what Moon will do - especially with lineups and players.