Look for the portal to starting heating up some

With Pinzan, Van Gytenbeek, Visscher, Martin, Maxwell, and others off the board -- it's definitely not looking super bright.

I think it might be a good idea to wait until we see what our team will be, and what the other conference teams will be, before we relegate our team to mediocrity.

And, even then, it might be best to see how they actually play, especially the freshmen, before making a determination. I remember a few years ago we started 2 freshman bigs (can't remember their names), and that team did pretty good for a long while.

It's every fan's right to get worked up over offseason "harbingers of doom".  So..go for it.

The next two weeks tells the story.  Right now everyone is fishing and I think things will happen quickly and everyone has their A, B and C lists.  Mid May will tell us a lot of who wins and loses in the P-12 portal shuffle

I'm not expecting osu to have a title contender,but I think with a couple more additions,osu can be a tournament team and be competive against most of this conference. Stanford is a powerhouse. Their back-ups could start for most teams in the country. Everyone else is in flux. Arizona lost 6-7 players...uo lost 5...Ucla has numerous newcomers. Too much change everywhere to make accurate predictions. I believe in Scott and his system over the last decade.

I have no basis for the following prognostications, but hey, this is a message board :-).....
I suspect Taylor will go back to generating "good" stats - where "good" in my mind is "flirting with a double-double regularly", and if the Longhorns have good to great passers to provide her good entry passes, #3 on the portal ranking list might be warranted. I suspect the change of scenery back to Texas will provide a lift, and might even accelerate her comeback from surgeries.
On Kennedy, I always suspected the issues have been more psychological than physical - she has all the tools, and she seems just as surprised to miss the easy shots as we are......but she had lots of opportunities to break through here (for example, the 2 missed FTs that would have sealed a close NC game - I am trying to forget, so I will try to remember that putback hoop-and-harm game winner as we go forward). But she seems to have become a 6'4" Gabby Hanson for us, and unfortunately we don't have Gabby's running mates that can put up the scoring needed (and do so with the defender assigned to Gabby doubling them). Perhaps with the right "hoops whisperer" she can get back to more scoring to go with her defensive prowess, but I don't know enough about Duke's coaching staff to know. That said, I think she can at least replicate her stats at OSU there, and that might be all Duke is looking for....
So both KB and TJ might have made good moves for themselves, but we are at a net loss on talent and experience. That said, SR's most successful season at his prior stop was with a very young team, and in my profession, the late great Seymour Cray said that he liked to hire engineers fresh out of school, because they hadn't learned what was impossible yet, so you could ask them to do it.
Let's hope we at least get close, and the team we have next year lets us better digest the paradigm shift that NIL and portal and pandemic have brought about.
And this clip is always my favorite on wishing for players we don't have:


Go Beavers!