2025 Transfer Portal News/Recruiting

[BoilerPride08]

I guess I'll start this thread to keep any potential info/updates/players in one area.

A potential target - IU Indy's Katie Davidson and Faith Stinson are in the portal. Davidson, a 5'10 guard, I believe would be a GS - averaged 19.9 ppg and 4 rpg. Stinson a 6-2 forward averaged 9 ppg 5 rpg.

A PG of note that entered is Wofford's SR Rachael Rose - a 5'7 true PG. She only played 6 games this year but averaged 22 ppg, 8 rpg, 5 apg last year. In her shortened season this year she had big games against the likes of South Carolina (20 pts, 8 reb) and Duke (23 pts in 29 mpg).

I would suspect these are the level players we will be after. Trying to find the next Ellis.

 

[Gesysp]

Let’s hope we can do better.

 

[BoilerPride08]

Let’s hope we can do better.

At this point - KG has proven NOTHING as a HC. I would be shocked if we can do much better than a 2x SoCon POY. We are in absolutely no position to nab P4 elite transfers. Rose may be a pipe dream for all we know. She has played very good against P4 competition. She had the GW shot when Wofford beat UVA at UVA a couple years ago - she recorded a near triple double against them with 21 pts 10 reb 9 ast. She had 24 pts 9 reb and 4 ast against Wake; 23 pts 13 reb 5 ast and 5 steals against Tennessee; 22 pts 12 reb 6 ast against UGA.

 

[MichaelRR]

Let’s hope we can do better.

I don't know how we could. We are fishing without a hook or bait, just a naked line dangling in the water off a stick. Anybody we catch has to tie themselves on to the line.... We are not a train, we are a massive train wreck of a program at this point. When Pride and I agree that the program is bottoming out and CKG has proven herself a failure, you know its bad.

 

[Gesysp]

I don’t expect to do any better, but we need better if this program wants to stop the downward spiral.

 

[jbvazq234]

I don’t expect to do any better, but we need better if this program wants to stop the downward spiral.

Before you can think about getting better you have to stop getting worse. CKG’s first two years were hopeful. Remember she took over a program that had won just 7 games total the previous season, in a weaker big ten. And even that losing team lost some of its better players to the transfer portal. But the last two years have been brutal. We need to see some improvement, any kind of improvement before we can dream about getting competitive. Fortunately dreaming is still free...

 

[Gesysp]

Stop the downward spiral = stop getting worse. I don't expect anything; to expect we improve after two straight awful seasons with little to no player development would be insane. Saying we need better players does not mean I expect to get them. I expect to be horrible again next year and Gearlds to stick around until her contract expires, but who wants that to happen?

 

[jbvazq234]

Stop the downward spiral = stop getting worse. I don't expect anything; to expect we improve after two straight awful seasons with little to no player development would be insane. Saying we need better players does not mean I expect to get them. I expect to be horrible again next year and Gearlds to stick around until her contract expires, but who wants that to happen?

I think that’s what will happen if we don’t improve noticeably by the end of her contract. Purdue WBB doesn’t contribute to the bottom line enough. At best it is revenue-neutral. The prestige of the brand is what would force immediate intervention, but I don’t expect that from this administration. Their full attention is on the sports that pay the bills, as it should be

 

[BoilerPride08]

I NEVER SAID that KG is a failure. I said she has accomplished NOTHING to date to expect her to get impact P4 transfers this summer. A player like Rose is about what we can expect out of the portal considering where we are as a program and what our coaching staff has proven on the court.

 

[GemstateBoiler]

I NEVER SAID that KG is a failure. I said she has accomplished NOTHING to date to expect her to get impact P4 transfers this summer. A player like Rose is about what we can expect out of the portal considering where we are as a program and what our coaching staff has proven on the court.

Hmmm? What is your definition of failure from a paid BT college basketball coach? Not sure there would be a waiver here. If this was a business, I would say failure.