2025 Basketball Portal

[bghkyfan74]

Some more potential news regarding this program and possibly the Frack money being used... I was told in a Zoom meeting that the NIL budget is now between $200K & $300K. Their top target in the transfer portal is from the Detroit area and played for a Division 1 school in North Carolina for the past two years.

[Globetrotter]

https://gwusports.com/sports/mens-baske ... s-ii/10380

[guest44]

Some more potential news regarding this program and possibly the Frack money being used... I was told in a Zoom meeting that the NIL budget is now between $200K & $300K. Their top target in the transfer portal is from the Detroit area and played for a Division 1 school in North Carolina for the past two years.

Great news. Try to convince them to set up basketball specific collective separate from football and outside the Learfield bubble. Money is tight no need to gift Learfield any additional.

[guest44]

https://gwusports.com/sports/mens-baske ... s-ii/10380

https://x.com/beastmodebuddy/status/191 ... 09544?s=46

Shot 38.5% on 201 3 point attempts.

[Warthog]

Given the insanity that NIL and instant transfers has created, how about this insane idea.

Why don't we just sign a developmental contract with an OSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, any school with a crap ton on NIL money. Then we work together with those school(s) where they make commitments to kids for big NIL dollars in a year or two down the road if they develop their skills at BG. With the reality that any kid that develops his skills here isn't sticking around anyway, why not fully embrace that and try to get some bigger potential stars to take a year here instead of redshirting at a bigger school.

Holy s**t! And now there are rumors that Coach George is doing this exact thing with football.

https://x.com/barstoolsports/status/1912162824261972107

I know, its BarStool, but the author of the story grew up in BG.

[mbenecke]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

[BillyLP]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

He has eligibility? Even with the COVID year, that doesn't add up.

[mbenecke]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

He has eligibility? Even with the COVID year, that doesn't add up.

I don't get it either. He's played 5 full seasons counting the COVID year.

[guest44]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

He has eligibility? Even with the COVID year, that doesn't add up.

I don't get it either. He's played 5 full seasons counting the COVID year.

At this point they probably just figure the NCAA doesn't know or will cave regardless. Didn't he do senior day in 2024? LOL

[BillyLP]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

He has eligibility? Even with the COVID year, that doesn't add up.

I don't get it either. He's played 5 full seasons counting the COVID year.

At this point they probably just figure the NCAA doesn't know or will cave regardless. Didn't he do senior day in 2024? LOL

On the bright side, I think we all assumed he was out of eligibility anyway and had no expectation of his return when looking at roster projections.

If we actually have a budget of 200-300k this season, I'm starting to be less concerned about how things fall together. Simon is a good recruiter and has a great pitch on coming here to have a solid year and then securing a bag. Throw 50k at a big, a forward, and a guard and then fill out the rest. We have the wealth in our alumni to have a legit NIL budget, we are just painfully late to the game in securing it.

[hammb]

Trey Thomas is the 8th Falcon in the portal.

He has eligibility? Even with the COVID year, that doesn't add up.

I don't get it either. He's played 5 full seasons counting the COVID year.

At this point they probably just figure the NCAA doesn't know or will cave regardless. Didn't he do senior day in 2024? LOL

On the bright side, I think we all assumed he was out of eligibility anyway and had no expectation of his return when looking at roster projections.

If we actually have a budget of 200-300k this season, I'm starting to be less concerned about how things fall together. Simon is a good recruiter and has a great pitch on coming here to have a solid year and then securing a bag. Throw 50k at a big, a forward, and a guard and then fill out the rest. We have the wealth in our alumni to have a legit NIL budget, we are just painfully late to the game in securing it.

While we certainly have an alumni base that has money to make a meaningful impact on MAC athletic budgets, we've never done a great job of building the connection from students to the athletics. I think that's the brilliance in what DVDM has been efforting (and Dakich/Urban as examples previously).

IT doesn't matter how much money our graduates make as adults if they would rather watch OSU play they're not donating it to BGSU.

Look no further than this site, or the facebook group, etc...there are seemingly less than 100 people that want to spend any time discussing BGSU athletics, even in season during game threads. If there is no connection and no fan engagement, there will be no money.

[pdt1081]

We have the wealth in our alumni to have a legit NIL budget, we are just painfully late to the game in securing it.

Christopher, Kingston, Moose. There's no confidence from donors that their donations will be used as intended. DVDM is working his ass off to repair that trust.

[guest44]

Go back to the original stages of “NIL” back in 2021. It was the beginning of the end of NCAA control. BGSU told athletes they couldn’t use logos in NIL for multiple years. The last update to the NIL policy was made in August of 2021 aka the original policy.

https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/g ... policy.pdf

A few hundred things have changed since then. On one occasion Hughes attempted to contact the local media to try to essentially kill a NIL story from airing. It wasn’t just non existent, they were fighting it. It was a clown show for control. No accountability.

[jpfalcon09]

Khayat officially returning.

[mbenecke]

Yoyo’s representation announced today that he’s agreed to a deal to return to BG for next season. So count Khayat in.

https://x.com/weave/status/191228162753 ... TH5rDyITPw