I agree with 2011

This year is an outlier. The transfer portal contains both players moving from mid majors to the power conferences and from the power conferences to the mid majors and below. There are a variety of reasons players are moving. The interesting thing about college athletes is that the vast majority of them are interested in playing rather than money. As some posters have pointed out, not every transfer situation is a good fit and there is a risk that the player will not fit. We have examples at Loyola.

Since most players want to play as freshmen, I think we will continue to see good players play at mid majors. The freshman may not get that guarantee of playing time at a bigger school or they may lose their high division one offer on account of a transfer. This means that there will be impactful freshman at smaller schools. Unlike football, one impactful freshman can make a deep run in the tourney - just as a less talented experienced team can make a run.

Overtime, I think this year is an outlier.

Miles' brother Wes is in the portal.

Many of these kids are getting bad advice. There is a high percentage of these kids that enter the portal that do not get picked up and they are out of basketball.

I agree that one year is an outlier...but so is last year as schools were adapting and figuring things out. Now we have schools hiring general managers to manage the situation better...So I guess maybe in 3 or 4 years we will have a better idea...
Miles brother Wes got little to no playing time this year at UNI and is behind Huttie and a pretty solid freshman center who got a lot of backup time...UNI is beautiful country....

Maybe this is part of our deal with Miles to get him to stay...

2 days after their tournament loss to Michigan State, New Mexico's best players and majority of that team has now entered the portal.

Craziness !!!!!!

We’ll see him in an X uniform with Pitino Jr. on the sidelines is my guess

SBU and Woj already has a juco big and a transfer from Minnesota. They’re gonna be a PIA in conference play.

Welcome back JCT,

Damn good to see a JCT post, I was worried you had left this mortal plane brother!