Literally everyone. These two lines right here blow your entire argument up as all 3 of those players stayed because of loyalty. Zach has mentioned how much Painter has done for him and how he wanted to repay it.
We all knew Tre, Morton, Edey and Gillis weren’t coming back…and in a non covid time, they wouldn’t have even had the option.
Dafuq? Why are you creating strawmen that no one is suggesting?
There was all kinds of speculation about Martin transferring at the end of first semester. The transfer at the end of the season surprised no one.
I think he also dealt with a friend who died coupled with losing his shooting form.
You made really good posts lately, this one was not thought out, all knew that Edey and Morton were gone, Gillis was a 95% chance he was moving on, those were expected.
WTF are you smoking? Purdue has been a top team for a while. Well before Edey. Also Purdue has had very few transfers compared to the rest of the country.
Ha you joke but football does trump so if someone were to join football we would have a scholly open. We got bailed out by was it Bade getting a football scholarship?
Stupid argument. Some of those guys people had to check their sanity why they stayed like Edey, Morton when they could have probably made more money elsewhere and for Morton he wasn’t even really playing. We didn’t have scholarships for Gillis and Morton they got their full run with us. Some of those guys were chased out or needed minutes. Only guys on there who were disappointing were Eastern (not lack of loyalty but a crazy mom, he’s still a homer for Purdue), Martin (homesick, girlfriend was from up north and didn’t have the will to compete), and Haarms. That’s incredible retention.
Well if Sisley comes someone has to leave. I don’t think anyone is denying someone or maybe even 2-3 won’t leave but won’t be rhe 3-5 guys people are speculating.
That’s what I thought, with Smith likely playing 30 minutes a night, Harris if he can play point might be fine at 10 minutes there? Anyways, just a thought, I have no clue, maybe no one leaves and academic scholarship or walk on status is used?
Agreed, might be 1-2…Purdue eventually will have players leave, nature of the game theses days.
Agree. There’s no chance for Benter to get minutes as a freshman. This seems to be a likely scenario imo with no one transferring.
Ok Benter goes to prep and then we sign Sisley, then what? Does Sisley go prep? Because we still need to lose a scholarship in that scenario.
You can’t give academic scholarships to players or they count against limit. But they can walk on and then get nil money…
Still think this is what has been agreed to for quite some time with someone on the roster.
There has been a lot of speculation on that and it would effectively give us 14 scholarship players but I really hate that as a solution. This will be abused. I think if you are on scholly you shouldn’t be allowed to give it up for the sake of creating a spot.
It beats the way that rival schools are turning over their whole rosters with transfers every year, IMO. It beats making a player leave who wants to stay. Purdue is still only going to play 5 guys at a time so I don’t really see this as gaining a competitive advantage. What makes this situation remarkable is that nobody (except the guys who had their senior day, already) is transferring out. In this era, it speaks volumes about the kind of program that Matt Painter is running.
Push the scholarship out to the next year and keep rolling them over until it works out!
I think that teams doing this with several / multiple players at a time might not be great for some players in situations, but not all that long ago D1 basketball allowed 15 scholarship players on a roster. I think it would be no different than that as far as players and potential playing time. So would increasing the scholarships available make it easier for coaches to better blend the NIL and portal with HS recruiting? Players transferring (@ most schools) is here to stay so does this allow room for transfers while still signing HS players?
I'm assuming that's joking sarcasm. Because that's just not an honest way of dealing with it. What if no one wants to leave when you finally have to pay the piper?
It’s definitely a way to do it and you have at least 4 guys leaving in 2026…I’d assume catchings, Colvin and maybe Heide leave to the nba (hopefully they all develop into that possibility). So that leaves you with 7 open spots BUT you’re right, it’s a dangerous game to play haha.
While I'm no expert, I don't think you can do this. Don't you still have 14 scholarship heads on the roster next season?
I assume he meant putting someone in prep school or some other way to transfer the scholarship to the next season.
Interesting, I didn’t know that.
TBD. No one has seen any of these guys in Painter's system. Benter is obviously a very good player who was overlooked. We've seen it happen before once or twice.
There was an article explaining it written by a Purdue blogger. I’ll try to see if I can find it…not sure what to google 😂
It's the question of the summer so I'm sure everyone has creative ideas about how it gets addressed.
