Sac State continues to add size from the portal. Callum MacRae a 7'1 C from New Zealand has transferred to Sac from UC Riverside. They added Hunter Marks, a 6'9 PF from Harford, last weeks also.

Aaron Murphy has now entered the portal and that makes 7 Aggies who are transferring.

I'm really beginning to wonder about what is behind this mass exodus. I can understand having a few players deciding to leave but 7...wow, something doesn't seem right...

https://verbalcommits.com/players/aaron-murphy

I'm not sure he was on scholarship. Verbalcommits shows him as a FWO (former walk on).

They are also bringing in 6'9 PF Hunter Marks an Aussie transferring from Hartford. He averaged 11.7 ppg and 4.4 rpg last season.

Posted by Gauchofreg from the Big West Boards transfer thread:

Portal dynamic has shifted over the past week or two. The number of entrants has slowed to a trickle compared to the torrent back in March. The majority of announcements, ~65%, are now for players choosing their new schools.
There hasn't been a new BW player hitting the portal for about a week. So far, only two of the 36 BW players that hit the portal have found a new home; CSUN's Darius Brown going to Montana St and Fullerton's Dante Maddox heading to Toledo.

Twenty of the BW players in the portal have likely graduated so many of these may have thrown their names out there just to see what happens.

Top BW players in the portal (no particular order)
Coleman, CSUN
Rocak, UCSD
Manjon, Davis
Fuller, Davis
T. Maddox, Fullerton
McRae, UCR

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bigwest/2022-big-west-transfer-thread-t26142-s80.html

Looks like he got a lot of attention this past weekend in SoCal.

That makes 5 Aggies in the portal. It will be interesting to see where they land.

:lol: ...or the Rustic Cowgirl Edge Western Apparel Shop!

Wyoming also landed Jake Kyman who is a 6'7 SF from UCLA.

I would imagine that teams looking at players in the portal often put together "package deals" where they contact 2 or more players they are recruiting and then the players themselves may possibly contact each other on their own and discuss playing with each other. Coaches know players want to play on teams that win and would be saying something like..."look at how strong this team would be if you join this group of players you'd be playing with.

USC PG Ethan Anderson has transferred to Wyoming.

Interesting article by midmajormadness about the extremely high number of players who have entered the portal. Most are from mid-major and not high major programs and most are lower level players who are looking for a better opportunity to play more minutes.

https://www.midmajormadness.com/2022/4/9/23018043/breaking-down-the-cbb-transfer-portal

We had an offer out to PG Jeremy Dent Smith from Junipero Serra HS in Gardena, CA, but he just committed to Cal State Dominguez Hills. We also have an offer to Jonathan Effertz a 6'1" PG out of Cleveland, Ohio.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/schools/uc-davis

I remember Les once saying that he learned from Kansas coach, Bill Self, to never let your team have a shortage of guards. I expect he's intently shopping for at least one more talented PG and perhaps a strong SG also.

The number of players in the MBB portal keeps growing...now up to 1217.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/transfers/2022?division=D1

:up:

The portal for the men and the women has become a game jumping in the ocean and then see who survives the feeding frenzy in shark filled waters with the biggest programs being the Great Whites...

There's also Patrick Lambley that VerbalCommits has listed as a walk-on. I wonder if he has or will be offered a scholarship?

That makes 5 Aggies in the portal now.

Anybody have any idea how many scholarships may be available now?

Wow...what an articulate and damning statement from Coach Katz about how unprofessional he feels that the AD and the CSUS President were in letting Brandon Laird go. There's so much wisdom in his statement about personal authenticity:

...the current Athletic Director and President love to use such phrases as :
1. "We always need to do the right thing"
2. "We will always be transparent"
3. "We are all about Hornet Family"

In my experience people who truly live those phrases do not feel a need to repeat such rhetoric over and over and over. Why should they? They know that their actions will speak for themselves, not their words. It is like the phrase I heard long ago, "your actions are so loud, I cannot hear what you are saying."

...The handling of Brandon Laird and his staff does not remotely begin to rise to the minimum level of human decency.

I wish i had that level of direction at such a young age. — agalum

For sure!

My only goal when I graduated from high school was to get a fast car and find a pretty girlfriend and that's what I did! I started working at the Chrysler Transmission Plant in Kokomo, Indiana, on my 18th birthday and bought a 1964 Corvette shortly after that. But then, Uncle Sam spoiled all the fun with the Vietnam War and off I went to the service for 4 years. The good part about being in the service was that it made me realize just how badly I wanted to get out and go to college! So after I got out I was able to use the GI Bill and I graduated from Davis in 1975.