2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread
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I think Illinois and ISU taught us that our strategy should be to go to the portal and Europe and just find guys with the last syllable of vic in their name. I do like the idea of Momvic coming and whole heartedly would endorse his transfer here.
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Sorry if a repeat, but just saw this from Jeff Borzello:
The Iowa State Cyclones had five transfers on campus this weekend; all five committed. Remarkable.
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wow.
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@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
Sorry if a repeat, but just saw this from Jeff Borzello:
The Iowa State Cyclones had five transfers on campus this weekend; all five committed. Remarkable.
Definitely their approach to the portal. We'd be melting down if KU signed any of those guys other than maybe the guard from Bradley. He is good but very small.
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@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
The Iowa State Cyclones had five transfers on campus this weekend; all five committed. Remarkable.
Anyone willing (brave enough?) to visit Ames is quite likely to already be 90% interested in ISU anyway.
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@mayjay Did you know that people actually live there? Of their own free will? I couldn't believe it either.
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In all seriousness i stopped in ames when i drove across the country after college. Met some kids at a bar, hung out at their place, played guitar with them, slept on their couch and headed on my way in the morning. Ames is alright in my book.
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@approxinfinity Hey! Same here. Except my stays were in Manhattan and Columbia. 🤭
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@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
In all seriousness i stopped in ames when i drove across the country after college. Met some kids at a bar, hung out at their place, played guitar with them, slept on their couch and headed on my way in the morning. Ames is alright in my book.
Now that @approxinfinity has opened that can of worms ... i'll share my cross country story about Chattanooga, Tennessee.
After my sophomore year at KU (during the Danny era), me and my friends from the East Coast decided to all get summer jobs on the Hilton Head island golf courses and have a fun summer.
I packed up my tiny car, a Triumph Spitfire if that rings a bell to anybody, and headed East. I made it as far as Chattanooga, and my car speedometer and tachometer both hit zero, in the middle of rush hour. Then they instantly went back up to normal. I'm thinking...ok, that's weird. A few miles later, same thing. BAM! both went back to zero, and some smoke started coming out of my hood. This can't be good!
I pulled over as quickly as i could, thankfully near a highway exit, and frantically tossed all my stuff out of the car onto a hillside as my car was engulfed in flames!
This was all pre cell phone days, so i stuck out my thumb and hoped somebody would give me a ride to a pay phone. Soon enough, a young University of Tennessee college kid my age stopped and drove me over to a 7-11 down the hill. I called 911, told em where i was and what was happening, and about 10 seconds later heard and saw sirens above me on the freeway.
Long story short, he was kind enough to see i was screwed in every way possible, so he said f*ck it, come stay with me and my roommates this weekend. We'll hit all the parties we can, get all liquored up and have a good time!
I'll forever be grateful for the kindness shown at the University of Tennessee.
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@rockchalkjayhawk is there a rest of the story?
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@crimsonblu22 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk is there a rest of the story?
Ha, for sure. Left out lots during and after!
I think the next day i somehow caught a flight down to south carolina, but how i got all my belongings there is a distant memory.
One of my buddies picked me up at the airport and took me to our rented condo (with cable we stole from the unit next door). they were bummed about my car, because it would have been one of our main means of transportation for the summer.
A few days later we simply walked into the Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club and asked for jobs. As luck would have it, they needed greenskeepers and general workers for the golf courses they had. Three if i recall. We mowed the greens every day, cleaned up the bunkers, cut trees, you name it. There was one hole you had to be very careful when mowing the greens and grass ... there was a cranky alligator in the greenside pond!
After we worked under the hot sun all day, we'd hit the condo pool area and drink and nap for a few hours, then head out on the town. Rinse, repeat all summer. Fun.
At the end of the summer, i didn't have a way back to KU, so me and a buddy or two rented a car and drove up the East Coast toward our families. BTW, it's not easy to rent a car when you're 18-19 years old. I can't even remember the hoops we had to jump through. We stopped in Virginia to drop off one guy, and his mom was kind enough to cook us a great Southern meal. My first time eating a twice-backed potato. mmm.
Ended up at my family home, and a week later had to hop a flight back to KU.
Coulda made a movie of that summer i think.
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https://blog.evanmiya.com/p/nil-market-trends-you-need-to-know
Good read on how much the market has ballooned from last yr.
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@rockchalkjayhawk pretty crazy! No car your first yr at KU?
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@crimsonblu22 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:
@rockchalkjayhawk pretty crazy! No car your first yr at KU?
totally crazy! back at that age you hardly sweat that kinda stuff, huh.
I had a few cars (clunkers) during my KU years. I guess living in the dorms you don't really need it much, but came in handy once i moved off campus. The tipsy walk to Naismith Drive back from The Hawk was always fun late at night ...
