Wisconsin Badgers Thread

[DingleJerry]

File this under why I don't really care we lost a mid-3 star OL out of state. If these guys don't play they're just gonna leave. I know you don't know that now, but it makes it so hard to get worked up about anyone other than the best of the best.

And why I generally don't follow HS recruiting at all anymore. 3 years of hyping this guy to get fans 'excited' about and he never plays a meaningful minute.

[DingleJerry]

An addition to the UW AD topics last week, this was posted, basically out of nowhere, by someone on the brewers board:

"it bugs me that UW-Madison athletics places a low value on longevity when it comes to season ticket customers. We've had volleyball season tickets since 2000, and over that time our seats have come to be branded as premium. When it comes to the NCAA tournament, they have seated football ticket holders ahead of us and other volleyball ticket holders because the football tickets + seat license fees bring in more revenue. So we were seeing football and basketball fans who wanted to get in on the now-popular volleyball tournament matches primarily to boost their athletics spending, and maybe get them better football/basketball perks down the road. (Somewhat ironically, we weren't displaced as much for the 2024 tournament matches, likely because they started charging us a seat fee last fall.)

UW athletics seems like a giant rat race in which we have no interest in competing, and now it's even creeping into women's volleyball. We could empty out our savings and there would always be a deeper pocketed donor with one more dollar. I imagine this will only get worse as NIL continues. Anyway, even the Brewers organization of the 2020s has been more friendly."

[Kerb Hohl]

Looks like we've got a pretty good shot at Boyd. A crystal ball came in last night and the (supposed) other competition in UNC got a different guard already.

[Kerb Hohl]

Hodges to the portal...really the only thing meaningful there is that I thought he was going to make it the whole way. Might just want to get some time on the court at a low major. Would assume he has graduated and such.

[chonestown]

Hodges has graduated. Honestly, probably hard to get a big body solely for practice purposes that you don't worry about hitting the portal.

Universally regarded as a good kid, one where student-athlete certainly applies. Program needs a couple guys like that.

[Ryan5UW]

I wonder if at some point, if it's not happening already, you're going to see programs focus a lot more on recruiting the portal than they are high school kids. Why put the effort and resources into a high school kid for a few years only to see them leave after their freshman year and the program gets nothing from them? I don't know if you could build a roster solely from the transfer portal, but you could probably get a lot of your contributors from it. Let high school kids cut their teeth somewhere else and then get them in once they've had some college experience.

[buckboy]

I wonder if at some point, if it's not happening already, you're going to see programs focus a lot more on recruiting the portal than they are high school kids. Why put the effort and resources into a high school kid for a few years only to see them leave after their freshman year and the program gets nothing from them? I don't know if you could build a roster solely from the transfer portal, but you could probably get a lot of your contributors from it. Let high school kids cut their teeth somewhere else and then get them in once they've had some college experience.

Kentucky made the sweet 16 with exclusively portal kids.

I think the bluebloods can exist solely with transfers and one-and-dones.

[Kerb Hohl]

I wonder if at some point, if it's not happening already, you're going to see programs focus a lot more on recruiting the portal than they are high school kids. Why put the effort and resources into a high school kid for a few years only to see them leave after their freshman year and the program gets nothing from them? I don't know if you could build a roster solely from the transfer portal, but you could probably get a lot of your contributors from it. Let high school kids cut their teeth somewhere else and then get them in once they've had some college experience.

That's happening all over the place already and was argued on previous pages of this thread. New coaches like Dusty May did it by necessity this year, but will just continue for most teams.

I think the Badgers will do a hybrid thing and get a few HS guys that are their core players if they can, but they spend more time in the portal on established players. That's the best allocation of time and it's just useless to hope and pray that Daniel Freitag or Gus Yalen defy the odds and become super productive when they look like **** early on after you spend hundreds of hours courting them.

[Ryan5UW]

I wonder if at some point, if it's not happening already, you're going to see programs focus a lot more on recruiting the portal than they are high school kids. Why put the effort and resources into a high school kid for a few years only to see them leave after their freshman year and the program gets nothing from them? I don't know if you could build a roster solely from the transfer portal, but you could probably get a lot of your contributors from it. Let high school kids cut their teeth somewhere else and then get them in once they've had some college experience.

That's happening all over the place already and was argued on previous pages of this thread. New coaches like Dusty May did it by necessity this year, but will just continue for most teams.

I think the Badgers will do a hybrid thing and get a few HS guys that are their core players if they can, but they spend more time in the portal on established players. That's the best allocation of time and it's just useless to hope and pray that Daniel Freitag or Gus Yalen defy the odds and become super productive when they look like **** early on after you spend hundreds of hours courting them.

My bad, I'll pour through everything before I post here again...

[Turk Nowitzki]

Hodges to the portal...really the only thing meaningful there is that I thought he was going to make it the whole way. Might just want to get some time on the court at a low major. Would assume he has graduated and such.

Hodges was probably the last of his type from the old era. I can't imagine there will be many (or any) guys both willing and be allowed to sit on a scholarship for 4 years with essentially no hope of playing.

[tski1972]

Cam Hunter going back to Central Arkansas is kind of lol.

[Kerb Hohl]

Cam Hunter going back to Central Arkansas is kind of lol.

Leave the door open for a return Meechie Johnson style.

[Kerb Hohl]

Blackwell "declaring for the draft" but will be back at Wisconsin if he doesn't leave for the NBA. Strong guess would be he's not an NBA guy at this point, so whatever.

[tski1972]

Blackwell "declaring for the draft" but will be back at Wisconsin if he doesn't leave for the NBA. Strong guess would be he's not an NBA guy at this point, so whatever.

At no point in his two years at UW have I thought John Blackwell is an NBA player.

[dbrodz7]

Blackwell "declaring for the draft" but will be back at Wisconsin if he doesn't leave for the NBA. Strong guess would be he's not an NBA guy at this point, so whatever.

At no point in his two years at UW have I thought John Blackwell is an NBA player.

I actually thought he looked like he might become an NBA guy, but no way right now. He's quick and smooth with his drives, but you need to shoot the three way better to get drafted.

[MVP2110]

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[Kerb Hohl]

Bring in Boyd, a promising big, keep Amos…that would be a good offseason.

[chonestown]

Yeah, I can rock with Rhodes.

[MVP2110]

I like adding a plus shooter. 41% from 3 last year would only be topped by Kamari McGee & Steven Crowl. We had a lot of capable shooters last year but not many actual plus shooters

[ReasonablySober]

Very nice.