The difference I believe is that we are now past the January 18th deadline to enter the portal for free intraconference transfers
Does anyone have more information about this? This is an important issue, at least in the college sports world.
“However, the rule change does come with a caveat. In order for an athlete to be eligible immediately at their school of choice, they must declare their intent to transfer by Feb. 1 for fall sports, May 1 for winter sports and July 1 for spring sports. The athlete does not need to choose his or her destination but must at least be in the transfer portal by those dates.”
Thanks. So, because Ruffin has entered the portal, he could transfer to UF without having to sit out a year. Same with the Alabama point guard who is in the portal.
https://247sports.com/Article/UNT-b...s-Alabama-visit-sets-Ole-Miss-trip-208545718/ Looks like Perry is visiting Ole Miss & Chris Beard.
IMO, this feels like a miss. He is working the system, which he is entitled. As I see it, Golden has to sell him a starting position and probably something more. I am not sure Golden is prepared to do this for what I see is a 6th man guy.
You would think that Clayton & Kugel are starting so for Perry to come in as a starter Richard would have to go to the bench and Kugel to the 3. Could happen but it makes us really small at the 1-3. Lends a lot of credence to twin bigs for rebounding and rim protection. If we don't get Perry, need strong back-ups in a true PG and height/size at SF, IMO.
My guess is K State. No inside info, but that coach seems to be a leader of men. And looks like a heck of a lot of fun to play for.
Even if we had to play 3 guards, Kugel and Richard have good size, so that wouldn’t exactly be a small 3 guard lineup. Esp as we will be able to go really big up front now. Right now we just need 1 more guard that can play, just to have enough bodies. I think we only have 4 total bodies in the backcourt. Amazing how quickly our depth issue flipped from backcourt to front-court. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to add “bodies” that are 6’2”. But it would obviously be nice to add one more potential starter, which this guy would be. Not sure who else we are after now, Thomas reclassifying would give us the numbers but of course you’d wonder if he’d be as ready to play immediately. The only player I recall reclassifying was Wilbekin, and of course he wasn’t expected to play 20+ minutes as a freshmen. He was on a 4 year path where he built towards that awesome senior year.
Just looked it up and apparently Wilbekin did play 17 minutes per game as a freshmen. I’m actually surprised by that. Of course he only averaged 2ppg so that’s why I probably forgot. He really came on to be big time in his jr. and sr. years.
Scottie was a great college defender from day one. In his senior year, he took charge of his team’s offense as well or better than anyone in the SEC. That’s why he was unanimously the SEC Player of the Year.
Wilbekin was able to skip his senior year of high school to accommodate our dire need for a point guard, a hard job for a 17 year old.
Scottie’s reclassification really helped us out, and while his point production was low, he gave us quality minutes off the bench just with his defense & hustle plays.
Tennessee was ranked and coming in to Gainesville. I was at the game. They had a guy lighting us up and seemed like they were about to pull away. Billy sent Freshman Scottie in and put him on that guy. Completely shut him down and the Gators won the game. It was amazing to see a freshman that skipped his high school senior year play that kind of defense. Head up, locked in, and not giving him a step at all.
The only other true freshman guard I recall that played defense like Scottie was a kid named Lee Humphrey. Interesting that both Scottie and Lee had basketball coaches for dads. I think that had a lot to do with it. They were just fundamentally sound on day one.
