2026 MBB Transfer Portal Tracker

bladerunnr said:

Frankly, Why would you wish him well? These athletes don't give a bleep about the University of Wyoming - or any other school, for that matter. They are professional athletes looking for a pay day. I don't wish him ill will. But I will remember him about as much as he will remember his time at Wyoming - which is not at all.

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This is just the same thing as one of us changing jobs. Companies/schools don't REALLY care about their employees in general, thus employees only care so much about their company/school. Companies started it with massive layoffs, and players can be asked to leave as well. The players just finally have a choice. Personally I prefer this to the dictatorships of past coaches, Lloyd Eaton comes to mind for UW. But yeah, we need balance, it will take time to find it.

springs_poke said:

This is just the same thing as one of us changing jobs. Companies/schools don't REALLY care about their employees in general, thus employees only care so much about their company/school. Companies started it with massive layoffs, and players can be asked to leave as well. The players just finally have a choice. Personally I prefer this to the dictatorships of past coaches, Lloyd Eaton comes to mind for UW. But yeah, we need balance, it will take time to find it.

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We went from one extreme to the other. We correctly recognized that college athletes had zero commercial rights, limited mobility, and over restrictive regulations...so we solved that by giving them a poorly regulated financial market in NIL, unlimited transfers, and almost no guardrails at all. All we did was trade one set of problems for another.

We have several very successful professional sporting leagues with decades of experience to model the college sports market after. I'm not sure why so many people think we need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to paying college athletes. We already know what works.

bladerunnr said:

Frankly, Why would you wish him well? These athletes don't give a bleep about the University of Wyoming - or any other school, for that matter. They are professional athletes looking for a pay day. I don't wish him ill will. But I will remember him about as much as he will remember his time at Wyoming - which is not at all.

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I have no inside knowledge to back this up, but a guy like Dennis needs to make his money now. His size is a huge disadvantage to playing in the NBA. He's got very high metrics. He's proven to be an effective player in a good college conference. I would guess that he's going to try to earn as much as he can in the NCAA because if he does play professionally, it will be overseas in a smaller league where he'll be making less than 6 figures a season.

Frankly, it’s terrifying to read this thread. I do not know what to expect. Who’s going to be the next player transferring? I really hope UW MBB doesn’t have to completely reload, again.

I get both sides of this argument; however, we do need to come to a compromise, that benefits both the fans and the players. I would imagine at least a few more players will be leaving for a bigger paycheck. Until some sort of compromise can be reached, we are only rooting for the laundry. Let’s hope some changes are made soon.

I see the portal is loading up with PG/SG players. Not too worried a replacement won’t be unobtainable.

I don’t wish any ill will upon anyone but I could care less about them otherwise. No different than in the workplace where a new employee gets all the training and then quits. Years ago my office had a lady training for a system analyst position quit because she claimed she was not challenged enough for her ability. She entered the open market and ended up with job offers like working the perfume counter at a department store before getting a job as a bank teller. Probably at 50% of the salary she was “too good” for. It would be ironic if Dennis lingers in the portal and then makes his extra $10k playing in a middle level Southern Conference program as the featured player.

PorkerPoke said:

I see the portal is loading up with PG/SG players. Not too worried a replacement won’t be unobtainable.

I don’t wish any ill will upon anyone but I could care less about them otherwise. No different than in the workplace where a new employee gets all the training and then quits. Years ago my office had a lady training for a system analyst position quit because she claimed she was not challenged enough for her ability. She entered the open market and ended up with job offers like working the perfume counter at a department store before getting a job as a bank teller. Probably at 50% of the salary she was “too good” for. It would be ironic if Dennis lingers in the portal and then makes his extra $10k playing in a middle level Southern Conference program as the featured player.

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College sports are not like an open job market. These players get a free education, free room and board, and their commitment is 4 years max. The emphasis should be the education - which at most schools is at least 100k over 4 years. But now, NIL has stripped bare the pretense that these players are students. This isn't some trainee leaving for another menial job. This is free agency without any contractual obligation from the player to stay at any one institution for more than a year.
Can you imagine what pro football would be like if Buffalo agreed to pay Josh Allen 60 million a year for 5 years but he has the option to break the contract whenever he wants? Neither can I. But this is what "college sports" is right now.

bladerunnr said:

College sports are not like an open job market. These players get a free education, free room and board, and their commitment is 4 years max. The emphasis should be the education - which at most schools is at least 100k over 4 years. But now, NIL has stripped bare the pretense that these players are students. This isn't some trainee leaving for another menial job. This is free agency without any contractual obligation from the player to stay at any one institution for more than a year.
Can you imagine what pro football would be like if Buffalo agreed to pay Josh Allen 60 million a year for 5 years but he has the option to break the contract whenever he wants? Neither can I. But this is what "college sports" is right now.

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It's time to move on.

You’re describing what college sports used to be. That version is gone.

This isn’t 1998 where athletes just took whatever deal schools offered and hoped it worked out. Schools have been operating like professional organizations for years. TV deals, sponsorships, conference realignment, coaching salaries in the millions. The only people who weren’t allowed to participate in that system were the players.

Now they can. And suddenly that’s the problem?

The “free education” argument sounds nice, but please be so for real in the last... 15 years. At a lot of these programs, the athlete is the product. They’re generating massive revenue and visibility. Acting like tuition alone balances that equation is outdated thinking.

Also, the Josh Allen comparison is bad, and it feels like we're just throwing names out there. He’s an NFL employee with a collectively bargained contract, protections, and guaranteed money. College athletes have none of that. You can’t compare a fully structured pro league to what college sports have historically been.

And let’s be honest… if Josh Allen had today’s transfer portal and NIL setup when he was at the University of Wyoming, there’s no chance he’s staying put if bigger programs come calling with more exposure and real money. He already had to fight to get noticed there. The modern system would’ve given him options, and he probably uses them like anyone else would.

People also only seem to care about “loyalty” when it benefits them. Nobody complains when a transfer into their program makes them better. Funny how that works.