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So if you are a program do you give an absolute bucket to Eli Shetlar in NIL? On one hand you get a 30+ win season and the talk of the NCAA; but your coach will leave after a year and you won't have a team come April. What do you do?

The kid could set the all time NCAA record for most wins in a career without ever really stepping on the floor.

Not too many guys have over 60 wins in their first two years.
 

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The kid could set the all time NCAA record for most wins in a career without ever really stepping on the floor.

Not too many guys have over 60 wins in their first two years.
I never made that connection.

Currently sitting at 63-11, 0.851 winning %, 62 total minutes played. That's damn good work if you can get it.

Genuinely might be the only player to ever have that kind of win/loss record without being a draft prospect
 

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So, to date, Sycamores in the portal are…

Cook
LeGree
Summers
Gray (eligibility in question)

Maybe I’m just speaking way too soon, but I would’ve expected more by now. Could be promising?
 

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So, to date, Sycamores in the portal are…

Cook
LeGree
Summers
Gray (eligibility in question)

Maybe I’m just speaking way too soon, but I would’ve expected more by now. Could be promising?
Really promising at this point imo. The 3 we expected to enter.

Dont rule out Gray coming back to us if he gets more eligibility. Was picking up serious minutes as the season went on.
 
So, to date, Sycamores in the portal are…

Cook
LeGree
Summers
Gray (eligibility in question)

Maybe I’m just speaking way too soon, but I would’ve expected more by now. Could be promising?

This is exactly who all we discussed for a better part of a month + now…

Cook, Legree, Summers were all a given.

I’d say the only other possibilities were Walker and Vorst because they might have been unhappy with playing time. Although, both carved out roles for themselves as they got healthy in the case of Vorst and as they got more experience and earned PT in the case of Walker. But I could have seen both players seeking more PT.

Camp/JD/Bruno played a lot of minutes last season - are likely not going to get overpaid in the portal - will get some NIL compensation to stay put and if they continue to develop/produce have even bigger NIL paydays ahead of them. The real NIL money is @ a P6 school and none of these guys is good enough to get serious interest from a P6 school at this point. It just doesn’t make any sense to leave this situation right now.

To that end the players are either smart enough to figure this out for themselves or they’ve got good people around them parents/coaches/family helping them understand this dynamic.

I’ve got to be honest - not a single one of them isn’t replaceable at this point. I’m glad they are staying it gives them and us the best chance - but had any of them jumped… Peace be with you.

Lastly, you look at the places some of these guys from Valpo and Evansville are getting attention from. It really highlights the fact that Graves may have done more with less than most coaches in the Valley this season. Those coaches had more desirable pieces from an NIL valuation standpoint and still had misrable seasons. Something to think about.
 
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Lastly, you look at the places some of these guys from Valpo and Evansville are getting attention from. It really highlights the fact that Graves may have done more with less than most coaches in the Valley this season. Those coaches had more desirable pieces from an NIL valuation standpoint and still had misrable seasons. Something to think about.
I certainly agree with this. It's amazing that we took Bradley and Drake to OT after watching them in post season.

I guess Harding has another year. Anybody know what's going on there?
 
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