The 2026 Transfer Portal

[TheStringer]

Never say never. Are you open to emailing the board of visitors?

Have multiple times, ain’t done diddly

 

[2011WinOverVillanova]

Have multiple times, ain’t done diddly

Thank You for doing it.

 

[jruby]

Keep dreamin

Well that's about all we got these days in off season is dreaming...... Caps are going to miss the playoffs, nats are going to flirt with the worst record ever! They certainly have one of the worst rosters ever on paper so yeah i'm just going to dream about next season until it starts!

 

[EXpatriot13]

Never say never. Are you open to emailing the board of visitors?

Why would the BOV give one flying f*** what my opinion is on how they should allocate student fees?

Tweet, email, carrier pigeon Dr Wash and Marvin everyday...those are the two that need to push the envelope and say the uncomfortable to the BOV.

 

[mshin5]

Why would the BOV give one flying f*** what my opinion is on how they should allocate student fees?

Tweet, email, carrier pigeon Dr Wash and Marvin everyday...those are the two that need to push the envelope and say the uncomfortable to the BOV.

Oh boy, here comes the passive aggressive response from him

 

[jruby]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0spFY1I2NQ

 

[Verdad]

I get the money. I really do. But don't any of these guys say, "Mason gave me a shot. I owe it to them to commit."?

No, especially not for guys we get as transfers in - we are one of many schools offering these guys shots. Not until there are multi year contracts in place - which is probably the only thing that will restore some sanity to this. No idea if that will ever happen.

Even with public/small school guys like Kier and Miller (and Oduro - lightly recruited but from national powerhouse) - obviously not as their NBA/ League bios list Providence,
Arizona and Miami.

 

[DRK331]

This is a good site for transfer portal stuff:

2026 College Basketball Transfer Portal Top Prospects

2026 College basketball Transfer Portal Top Prospects

247sports.com

 

[GMU79]

No, especially not for guys we get as transfers in - we are one of many schools offering these guys shots. Not until there are multi year contracts in place - which is probably the only thing that will restore some sanity to this. No idea if that will ever happen.

Even with public/small school guys like Kier and Miller (and Oduro - lightly recruited but from national powerhouse) - obviously not as their NBA/ League bios list Providence,
Arizona and Miami.

True. Sadly.
It's really gotten to the place where the cliché is true: I'm a fan of the name on the front of the jersey, not the back. I've been a fan of George Mason for 51 years.
It's hard to believe he's still playing
It's hard to be the fan of a guy who is only here for 1.

 

[GMU_DCU]

Gets harder and harder to spend my free time and money rooting for players that have no ties to the university other than a payroll check then bolt after one year.

 

[GMUFan26]

Gets harder and harder to spend my free time and money rooting for players that have no ties to the university other than a payroll check then bolt after one year.

Imagine if we finished bottom of the barrel in the A-10... we'd all be elated that the new landscape of college sports is one-and-done so we could have a realistic shot the following year and not be handcuffed by a bad roster.

Until we realistically compete for the A-10 trophy, I, for one, am happy that we can essentially start from scratch every year.

When we do manage to go dancing, I'm sure the school will come up with the money to run it back with key guys the following year.

 

[GSII]

Gets harder and harder to spend my free time and money rooting for players that have no ties to the university other than a payroll check then bolt after one year.

But you paid, in part, for a professor that basically does the same thing. Enriches your life to a certain extent. Then professor can leave for more money and bigger name academic school. Thats the arguement the pro transfer guys will make. Same will be said about coaches leaving. IMO, coaches are professionals that are running an entire program from top to bottom under an agreed contract. Not the same. Most highly ranked academic depts are probably the ones that have the least turnover. None of this makes sense. Not only is the current college basketball landscape not preparing players for real life but they will mostly learn to run away from their environments they may not like.

 

[mkaufman1]

Imagine if we finished bottom of the barrel in the A-10... we'd all be elated that the new landscape of college sports is one-and-done so we could have a realistic shot the following year and not be handcuffed by a bad roster.

Until we realistically compete for the A-10 trophy, I, for one, am happy that we can essentially start from scratch every year.

When we do manage to go dancing, I'm sure the school will come up with the money to run it back with key guys the following year.

Realistically compete for the a10 trophy? We just did in the 24-25 season.

 

[mshin5]

Realistically compete for the a10 trophy? We just did in the 24-25 season.

I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant consistently

 

[GMUgemini]

But you paid, in part, for a professor that basically does the same thing. Enriches your life to a certain extent. Then professor can leave for more money and bigger name academic school. Thats the arguement the pro transfer guys will make. Same will be said about coaches leaving. IMO, coaches are professionals that are running an entire program from top to bottom under an agreed contract. Not the same. Most highly ranked academic depts are probably the ones that have the least turnover. None of this makes sense. Not only is the current college basketball landscape not preparing players for real life but they will mostly learn to run away from their environments they may not like.

The free transfer rules seem to be more tuned to regular students who can leave and transfer whenever they want, but the kind of money getting tossed around now you really can’t make that comparison any more.

Talking about a professor or coach leaving any time they want is disingenuous for many reasons.

The only solution really is to classify these players as employees and collectively bargain. The courts won’t accept anything else (they have essentially castrated the current NCAA).

 

[GMUgemini]

I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant consistently

Yes but if we are finishing bottom of the barrel it’s because we don’t have the money to compete so the transfer market would be largely useless to us anyway.

There was a hilarious article “analyzing” why the Big 10 is dominating basketball this year (and football the last three) and essentially the analysis is “we get to pay players now and we’ve got crap tons of money, so yay us.”

 

[GMUFan26]

Realistically compete for the a10 trophy? We just did in the 24-25 season.

Yes and we couldn't bring that team back, except Jalen and BOC, because they were all out of eligibility. Maddox, Billups, Woody, KD, Anderson... and we brought BOC back.

Yes but if we are finishing bottom of the barrel it’s because we don’t have the money to compete so the transfer market would be largely useless to us anyway.

There was a hilarious article “analyzing” why the Big 10 is dominating basketball this year (and football the last three) and essentially the analysis is “we get to pay players now and we’ve got crap tons of money, so yay us.”

Not necessarily... just look at GW. Spent big $$ on their roster and how did it go for them?

I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant consistently

If we win consistently, it certainly stabilizes and even accelerates things... but what I actually meant was win it even one time, and it'll help the program/brand tremendously $$-wise. Hopefully we win it with sophomores and juniors so we can run it back, like vcu.

 

[mbush]

A couple former targets are in the portal.

- Mike Collins is a 6'1 PG out of Texas with a reputation as a strong defender and the promise of a three point shot (he hit ~90% of his free throws in HS, if I remember correctly). He spent the year at Lousiana.
- Bryson McGlothin is 6'8 and had a sterling reputation as a defensive menace coming out of HS in Texas (Woodie Newton without the 3 point range). He spent last year with Richmond.

Both seem to have been buried on the bench in their freshman year.

 

[GMUgemini]

Not necessarily... just look at GW. Spent big $$ on their roster and how did it go for them?

The finished middle of the pack, made the NIT like we did and got farther than we did. That’s not the same thing as being La Salle.

 

[NewPatriot]

NCAA Basketball: Top 100 players set to enter the transfer portal on Tuesday

Technically speaking, the transfer portal doesn’t open for college basketball players until April 7th, the day after the national championship concludes. Howeve

bustingbrackets.com

Busting Brackets posted their Top 100 transfers as of today.

Allenspach is #70. Mincy is not listed.

I interesting.