I wish Underwood would stay out of the transfer portal. I don't like renting players for 1 year, look what happened this year with the 3 "MY BALL GUYS" Just recruit good players and build a cohesive team from day 1. It may take a couple of years to build a contender again but you will also be building a team culture too.
Honestly I agree with this in a lot of ways.
I think if you're going to get 1-and-done rentals, it needs to be players who want to be here, and ones that are complimentary to the existing roster, not just installed over it.
RayJ Dennis convinces me because he's an IL kid getting a chance to step up to major conference basketball and he's a PG, something the roster is currently missing.
I am much less interested in some rental big guy to take minutes away from Dainja and Hansberry. Pay those guys the NIL money!
That’s not how it works anymore.
We are very much in the "medieval alchemy" part of the NIL/Portal era, still far from the "modern science" part. I don't think we fully know how it works yet.
If the right move is always buying rentals to bury your freshmen (which it might be), then allocating tons of resources to recruiting freshmen probably isn't the right move.