2025 Transfer Portal Thread

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Yeah, I figure this dead period gave the teams some time to catch their breath a bit. We'll have our targets and focus on them until it's done. Some of these other schools that always seem to have their name in the mix for top recruits simply are casting a larger net to either hopefully drive away competition or just to secure a visit where they have the opportunity to pull the bait & switch on some of them.

You'll notice the smarter recruits are using zoom to do virtual meetings for a lot of places they think aren't as serious or are too far to make a trip to be fed BS about how the numbers will work themselves out.

I personally feel like with Rice it'll be about seeing and meeting everyone face to face.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
Now that the dead period is over, we’ll see a flurry of visits, commitments and lists of a player’s potential destinations. It’ll inevitably be a ride with some euphoria and some disappointment. This is when many question the plan and the outcome. The coaches have proven that they’re good at this. We should be hopeful, but realistic. It’s a Wild West environment right now with the highest prices ever. We have support to be in lots of battles and reserves to meet unique opportunities. That’s been made clear to staff. It won’t always go our way. We’re the 33rd ranked basketball program in enterprise value, but we punch in the top ten. Because one guy is visiting and another is visiting somewhere else, it doesn’t mean we aren’t trying to get that player too. Nothing new this morning. Enjoy the ride. Keep the torches dry for now. Hopefully we’ll get some dudes and field another great team.
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What does this mean/how is it calculated? Is this in large part due to Tv deals that conferences have, meaning we’re still towards the top in the league, because outside of that not sure it wouldn’t make much sense? We have been Top 5 in attendance for like 5-6 straight years iirc, we’re one of the most winningest programs in March over the last 4-5 years as well as overall the last 4-5 years, which each win in the NCAAT comes with additional money to the program…so only way 33 makes sense to me is if a huge part is TV deals and that there’s 2 conferences with better ones?
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
What does this mean/how is it calculated? Is this in large part due to Tv deals that conferences have, meaning we’re still towards the top in the league, because outside of that not sure it wouldn’t make much sense? We have been Top 5 in attendance for like 5-6 straight years iirc, we’re one of the most winningest programs in March over the last 4-5 years as well as overall the last 4-5 years, which each win in the NCAAT comes with additional money to the program…so only way 33 makes sense to me is if a huge part is TV deals and that there’s 2 conferences with better ones?
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Yeah, I don't understand how that's possibly true. Would be curious to hear the metrics in how that's calculated.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
What does this mean/how is it calculated? Is this in large part due to Tv deals that conferences have, meaning we’re still towards the top in the league, because outside of that not sure it wouldn’t make much sense? We have been Top 5 in attendance for like 5-6 straight years iirc, we’re one of the most winningest programs in March over the last 4-5 years as well as overall the last 4-5 years, which each win in the NCAAT comes with additional money to the program…so only way 33 makes sense to me is if a huge part is TV deals and that there’s 2 conferences with better ones?
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www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

Study shows most valuable men’s, women’s college basketball programs

A new study shows the Univ. of North Carolina men’s basketball team has the highest valuation in the sport at $378M.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

This one references the main article, but it's behind a WSJ paywall.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
You're "new" here so let me just share the ground rules.

No one knows when or if players are going to commit until they do. Some hear that things are going well, and that the team expects the player to commit on this day or that....but you won't get a firm date until the ink dries. With NIL and such it's made things far less certain for recruitments.
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Yeah, national signing day and stuff is a joke compared to what it used to be.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
What does this mean/how is it calculated? Is this in large part due to Tv deals that conferences have, meaning we’re still towards the top in the league, because outside of that not sure it wouldn’t make much sense? We have been Top 5 in attendance for like 5-6 straight years iirc, we’re one of the most winningest programs in March over the last 4-5 years as well as overall the last 4-5 years, which each win in the NCAAT comes with additional money to the program…so only way 33 makes sense to me is if a huge part is TV deals and that there’s 2 conferences with better ones?
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The Wall Street Journal published an article and the logic in determining enterprise value. I would've posted it, but it requires a subscription. Programs like UNC and Duke have absurd value in brand value and merchandise sales, in addition to the ratings they pull. Here is the article. It's consistent with the last ten years. If you don't have subscription, there are reddit conversations where you can get commentary.

 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
The Wall Street Journal published an article and the logic in determining enterprise value. I would've posted it, but it requires a subscription. Programs like UNC and Duke have absurd value in brand value and merchandise sales, in addition to the ratings they pull. Here is the article. It's consistent with the last ten years. If you don't have subscription, there are reddit conversations where you can get commentary.

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Thanks
 
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For what it's worth, only sports media folks ignorant about the metrics used to come up with this "value" seem to give it any sort of merit. The majority of financial folks are basically saying "he's full of ****"
 
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VolFan_stuck_in_the_901 said:
The quality of the food/service at Cracker Barrel has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic. I remember pre-2020 their food, service, and atmosphere were top notch.
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Yep I actually use to work there in 2019, food was great and they started serving sctual Fried Chicken

Now the food is worse than cafeteria food
 
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