The Bluejay Underground: A Creighton Sports Message Board

jayc13 wrote:I just checked on3 and nearly 500 players are in the portal with 8 committed to a new school after one week. I see Primo Spears (G'town) is leaving his 3rd school in 3 years. It's just gotten utterly stupid at this point.

I saw a tweet from a portal site this weekend saying there were something like 808 D1 transfers and 462 D2 transfers. Those numbers are from a fuzzy memory but close; definitely in the 800s for D1s.

Apparently I need to refresh my screen. Ha! I believe it. It's unhinged and not always in a great way.

914 shown as of this moment here!!

https://www.verbalcommits.com/transfers

Poor Drake. Their best players have pretty much all entered the portal. Expected but a real kick in the nuts for that long suffering fan base that had six years of the good stuff.

LJay wrote:914 shown as of this moment here!!

https://www.verbalcommits.com/transfers

Thanks! It's like watching the national debt clock.

Ding, ding, ding. There ya have it folks, the 1,000 transfers mark has been breached (1,003 if you don’t want to click through).

https://www.verbalcommits.com/transfers

How does a coaching staff even navigate all that? Search for players that you previously recruited/watched at some point?

I wonder how much Mac and the staff know about the decisions of our top guys. Do they know with a level of certainty that Ashworth is staying? Do they know with a level of certainty that Trey is leaving? Do they know Kalk's plans? None of these decisions should be defined as "certain", but you have to figure the coaches have a general idea or understanding of the likelihood in each situation.

Then again, Ryan Nembhard threw a Bert Blyleven-level curveball at us last year, so perhaps that's a lesson learned for the staff.

I haven't seen Creighton linked to any bigs in the transfer portal. I understand the team and staff are busy, you know, trying to win a national championship. But a part of me wonders if they know something about Kalk, so they aren't going after bigs. Admittedly, that same of part of me may be overdosing on wishful thinking.

vivid_dude wrote:I wonder how much Mac and the staff know about the decisions of our top guys. Do they know with a level of certainty that Ashworth is staying? Do they know with a level of certainty that Trey is leaving? Do they know Kalk's plans? None of these decisions should be defined as "certain", but you have to figure the coaches have a general idea or understanding of the likelihood in each situation.

Then again, Ryan Nembhard threw a Bert Blyleven-level curveball at us last year, so perhaps that's a lesson learned for the staff.

I haven't seen Creighton linked to any bigs in the transfer portal. I understand the team and staff are busy, you know, trying to win a national championship. But a part of me wonders if they know something about Kalk, so they aren't going after bigs. Admittedly, that same of part of me may be overdosing on wishful thinking.

Obviously we could all be shocked, but I'm thinking Trey is 95% gone, Ashworth is 95% back, and Kalk is 50/50.

Everyone we've been linked to in the portal so far is either a combo guard, or a taller wing player. Which would lead you to think they expect Trey to go, and obviously Baylor is gone. We've haven't been linked to any good bigs in the portal, which is 100% our biggest need for next year if Kalk is gone. I trust the staff, so I'm hoping that's because they have a good feel that Kalk will return. If they felt otherwise, I assume they would have reached out to Omoruyi, William Kyle, Garrison, etc.

Kalk is a lot worse than 50/50. It’s going to take some convincing.

I think you guys are overthinking this. With the players you’re discussing being loyal to the program, why would things NOT be on the table?