I'm just saying there's a time and place for everything.

You're like the insurance salesman who's a guest at a wedding and engages the bride and groom in a long conversation about estate planning and whole life insurance.

Important subjects. But they can wait. Let the couple enjoy the moment!

Uh oh, everyone be careful you might upset Swella. He would never try to upset anybody else

You mean to say I'm not always positively delightful?!?

I promise for the duration of the Ramblers' run in March Madness I will behave myself and not engage in any of my annoying Frolics and Detours.

After that all bets are off.

Twitter is reporting lots of players in MVC jumping into the transfer portal, not just from ISU. I think LU broke the conference with their domination! Seriously, these transfer rules will hurt college basketball and mid-majors in particular. Can you imagine you recruit a kid, build a program around him and all of a sudden he up and leaves? Its like 16" softball recruiting!

Donovan Clay (Valpo) put his name in the transfer portal. Add most of the returning players from 4th place ISU, and it's going to make a dent in the strength of the league.

Dont you think a lot of this is a reaction to the 5th year for everyone rule? (ISUb maybe the coaching change) I really wish they would change it.....I am guessing the main reason for the rule was the pandemic....thought kids and teams would not play depriving seniors of their last year...but as it turned out almost everyone played a fairly complete schedule....THe IVY League being the outlier.

I'm taking a wait and see approach on the transfer portal for a few reasons.

1) Just because a player puts his name in the portal doesn't mean he's actually going to leave. Players pull their name out all the time. I suspect with a free transfer rule most likely going into effect, some players will just test the waters and will ultimately come back.

2) I suspect some of the ISUb players are going to stay if they promote an assistant coach to head coach. Let's wait and see who they hire.

3) There could also be impact transfers into the conference. Drake has done a great job of building their team through the transfer process. Porter has done a great job using the portal too. And we don't know who might transfer into the MVC at this point.

At the same time, everyone from Drake said they are coming back. I think they will be a monster next year.

We will have to wait and see about Loyola's seniors but if they are back, the Ramblers should be in the pre season top 25.

UNI was a pre season favorite in the conference before their injuries but those guys are coming back.

I think Missouri State also has everyone back.

MVC is going to be stacked next year.

If Steve Watson left, I would hope the Deputy AD would get the job! She is extremely capable and would provide ccontinuity.

As a general comment, internal promotions promote stability in terms of the teams and recruiting. Lansing was well liked by his team one Sycamore player commented he would withdraw from the porter if an assistant would be chosen to replace Lansing.
As a sidebar, I hope Lansing lands somewhere good. He is a credit to coaching and the MVC.