My point was jones was a great defensive players at SIU as a freshman!
No, you said Purdue fans didn’t know that he was a great defensive player
My point was against grabbing someone from the portal just to fill a need when signing a high school player could be just as good or maybe even better.
Painter did that this year.
My point is that usually portal players are a 1 year fix. They are nothing more than a one and done player who either wants big money or couldn’t beat out the players to start at his last school.
Please see such examples as Wisconsin and Auburn that prove this 100% wrong.
Ask yourself, why do Purdue players enter the portal? Purdue football players enter because they want money and a chance to play for a winner. Purdue basketball players enter the portal because they couldn’t beat out the competition.
Hunter and IT couldn’t beat out the best PG in Purdues history/a top 5 PG in college bball in the making. It makes sense why they transferred. Hunter also had an extra year, just like Morton. Newman too but he just couldn’t get his shot going. Same as wheeler.
If Myles were to enter the portal, what would be his reasoning? Basically he got tired of coming off the bench and he couldn’t beat out Loyer.
He started 8 games this year alongside Loyer. He’s not leaving.
Think about it. Would we or Painter want to add a player who only entered the portal because he wasn’t good enough to start for his last team?
I trust painter to take the best player for the team, whether he started or came off bench. Still don’t get your obsession with thinking players want to “start” and that’s it.
And does Purdue really have the NIL money to use and attract a real portal star like Dickinson and the guy from UW that Kansas paid out?
Again. I trust painter and staff to make good decisions. Dickinson and Storr were not Purdue guys. And no one knows how much NIL any school has. Painter has said Purdue can pay.
With all that said, some incoming freshman demand as much money as portal players do!
Yeah but if you’ve been paying attention, that’s why Purdue doesn’t land 5 stars.
I’m not against adding portal players. I just don’t believe they are as great as some of you believe them to be. Look at Gillis. He was supposed to be one of the better portal players available last year. Just ask a Duke fan their impression of adding Gillis or adding another high school recruit like Flagg. By adding Gillis, Duke probably informed a 4/5 recruit they had no room for him. I doubt that made Duke fans happy if they turned away a top 50 high school player to add Gillis.
Gillis was the 91st ranked transfer last year. So, seems like you’re wrong in your assessment. Duke fans on X and Reddit love Gillis.
And look at Morton and Newman and Hunter and IT. My bet is their schools are now wishing they hadn’t added that portal transfer.
Colorado state, Butler, WKU, FGCU and Oklahoma State aren’t exactly powerhouses and didn’t really lose anything by adding them. Probably improved to be honest.
So back to Jones! He was great last year. He was a portal addition. Painter does look at the portal for players. He just didn’t last year because he thought he had a commitment from Catchings and Harris.
And 4 other freshman
I still can’t believe the timing of Catchings decision to decommit . There had to be something there that Painter will never make public. If Catchings had not signed, I believe Painter would have looked to the portal.
We were oversigned with catchings. How did you not see those posts?
Catchings screwed us over big time! I’m not sure why and I’m not sure what he was thinking. But yes. Catchings intentionally screwed us over.
He did us a favor actually.
He could have at least stayed a year before transferring. Was BYU even one of the schools he was considering when first being recruited? And now that BYU has that #1 prospect coming in, karmas has taken place.
No. But they offered decent money and were one of few teams that had room since he waited so long. KC will transfer out somewhere else or get drafted second round.
Given a choice of adding a portal player or a top 20 one and done high school player, which would you rather have? There are risks both ways.
Wow, never thought of that!
I look at these we need a portal player posts much like I look at the fire painter posts. The portal player posts never identify the player or the position. They just say we need a portal player. What you need to do is identify our team’s deficiency and identify a player that would fix or improve that deficiency.
I believe you need to re-read these posts. They have clearly stated positions, deficiencies and even throwing out names of players that we’d all like to see.
At the moment I see three deficiencies. Our guards are playing terrible perimeter defense. And our center position is not guarding the basket or getting rebounds. and I believe we need a taller forward to play the 3 rather than a guard. Jacobsen should fix one of those deficiencies. Can West or Benter or Harris fix the other deficiency?
We shall see.
We have West coming next year. I believe we have room to add 1-3 more players. I expect 1-2 players will leave.
With scholarships going from 13->15 we could add 2 more with everyone back, Furst graduating and west coming aboard. Painter could also choose to make some walks ona into scholarship players. Sounds like Waddell is leaning on staying. Berg may leave tho
I believe Painter is waiting until the end of the year to worry about who to add via recruiting high school players or the portal.
Unless someone de-commits, there won’t be any high school players to recruit
I haven’t really looked lately to see who is left uncommitted/signed from high school. I also haven’t seen any high school recruits with Purdue in their top 5 that haven’t already committed or that Purdue was pursuing.
There aren’t any. We are on to 2026 recruits.
If Sisley decommited and became available, would you rather have Sisley or a portal transfer?
Portal. Need to go all-in next year. Sisley is a 4 year player and doesn’t provide the help we need right away for next year.
Personally I’d rather have Sisley.
Why?
