FanPost

Off-Season Hoops 2023 Thread 1

It's the Offseason!

We have now had 365 days of Kevin Willard. Maryland hired him one year ago today, March 21. What are your thoughts?

Also please comment with any relevant Portal news you find.

Portal On3 | Portal TR Nexus | Portal Fox Sports

And recruiting talk!

Recruiting 247 | Recruiting On3

Yanik helpfully published a scholly chart in the comments. Here's that roster info brought up into the main body:

Player 2023Year 22-23Mins 2023-24 Scholships

Donald Carey

Grad

870

Exhaust Elig

Patrick Emilien

Grad

565

Exhaust Elig

Hakim Hart

Senr

1148

Leaving? (Portal)

?

Donta Scott

Senr

1097

?

Jahmir Young

Senr

1095

Returning!

12

Ian Martinez

Junr

626

11

Jahari Long

Junr

345

10

Arnaud Revaz

Junr

15

9

Pavlo Dziuba

Junr

13

8

Carson Dick

Junr

2

Walk On

Julian Reese

Soph

919

7

Brett Karkus

Soph

3

Walk On

Ike Cornish

R-Fresh

101

PORTAL Exit

Noah Batchelor

Fresh

148

6

CSR Canada

Fresh

79

5

DeShaun Harris-Smith

HS

Incoming Fresh

4

Jamie Kaiser

HS

Incoming Fresh

3

Jahnathon Lamothe

HS

Incoming Fresh

2

Braden Pierce

HS

Incoming Fresh

1

And NihonTerp points out the Coaching Carousel is also a hot topic
26 openings so far this year. Probably more to come: there were 60 and 57 the last two years.
Not listing them all, but here are some of the bigger openings, along with ones already filled.

School Former New Was at
Maryland assistant Tony Skinn Mike Jones Who? VaTech asst
Maryland assistant Grant Billmeier ???
St Johns Mike Anderson Rick Pitino Iona
Georgetown Patrick Ewing Ed Cooley (not Turge) Providence
Iona Rick Pitino Tobin Anderson Farleigh Dick
Farleigh Dick Tobin Anderson Jack Castleberry Farleigh Dick asst (promotion)
Notre Dame Mike Brey Micah Shrewsberry State Pen
Providence Ed Cooley Kim English George Mason
State Pen Micah Shrewsberry Mike Rhoades VCU
Wichita St Isaac Brown Paul Mills (not Turge) Oral Roberts
VCU Mike Rhoades Ryan Odom Utah St
California Mark Fox Mark "Mad Dog" Madsen Utah Valley U
South Florida Brian Gregory Amir Abdur-Rahim Kennesaw State
George Mason Kim English Tony Skinn Maryland assistant
Temple Aaron McKie Adam Fisher State Pen asst
American Mike Brennan Duane Simpkins Geo Mason asst; ex-Terp
Texas Tech Mark Adams Grant McCasland North Texas
N Jersey Inst o Tech Brian Kennedy Grant Billmeier Maryland assistant
Utah St Ryan Odom ?

I think the normal protocol is to keep a fanpost active until the number of comments gets unwieldy, around 3 or 4 hundred? Or the fanpost starts to get buried down the page? And then start a new one?

Away we go!

FanPosts are content created by and for fans. They do not necessarily represent the views of Testudo Times or its staff, and anything deemed inappropriate will be removed by site administrators.