KU ROSTER 2026-27
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@DCHawker Just a feeling. Ol' Bill is about to do one of his best coaching jobs
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With everyone out. I am starting to think Kohl can be convinced to stay.
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J.P Estrella was thought to be a possibility at the 5 committed to Michigan.
Johnson of Colorado is a bidding war that doesn't appear KU is in.
Taylor of UNC Asheville might not visit now.
KU did zoom with Texas Tech's freshman guard Jaylen Petty.
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@BeddieKU23 C?
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@kjayhawks2.0 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:
What I wonder... it's that most of our team didn't hesitate at all to move into the portal. I'm not for certain, but do the rest of the upper D1 teams lose this many?If I remember right Miami in 2023 I believe made the FF and lost the whole roster in the portal.
I think the starting 5 of Michigan were all first year transfers.
I know we are all singing the "doom and gloom."
I'm now thinking differently. What we have is a very rare situation for Self! He can build his entire team from scratch! For example... what if Elmarko and McDowell stuck around? Those guys know the system, but we already know their limitations. Having many of these players still around limits what we can go out and get. Self is free, except for his signed HS recruits, to create his vision! I just hope it includes great athleticism, physical strength and size, and good perimeter shooting!
Our big advantage in the portal... it is mostly about money! Surely, Self will have a big piggybank for this task, and we are Kansas with a HOFr coach. I'm involved in several team chats besides KU, and several have already mentioned the THREAT from Kansas, because we need so many positions and have the clout to go get the players.
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@drgnslayr that’s is a possibility for sure and I hope it happens. I just don’t trust Bill and this staff ability to create a roster good enough to win conference and national championships. Like I’ve said before right now the top teams not only the country but our own conference are bigger, faster, stronger and more athletic. Flory may have been those things against most of the teams we played he was just inexperienced. At the other 4 spots went heavily the other way and the guys on the bench of top teams were unmeasurable levels above ours. We may have had the worst bench in the Bill Self era with Mari and Elmarko getting most of those minutes. Sadly it didn’t have to be that way with guy we had in warms up all season. Maybe as you say those two transferring could be a huge blessing in disguise.
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And then there was one! This is kinda shocking, even in the NIL/portal era.
Wasn’t it rumored that Kohl was on his way out, too?
Crazy. Maybe Storr and Griffen can come back!
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Yes rumored his dad wanted him to portal. Trending to him returning still
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Mbiya is still not in the portal as of Thursday night officially
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No visits from Taylor or Johnson.
Desean Goode could visit.
Not much else so far.
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@BeddieKU23 He is the one I would love to come back. His PT throughout the year really baffled me after seeing him play in the tournament.
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Self is always a year 2 coach. Come back year 2, you'll get the pet treatment. If Kohl and Mbiya are our pets that play over studs who are better, I think that'll be a problem we can live with. High floor pets.
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Mbiya was playable against the second best big in the country lmao I still can't believe it
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From what I just read over 55% D1 college basketball players are currently in the portal.
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Mbiya is still a project but his size is what we need in the room. I loved his efforts in the tournament games and it was being reported he was really coming on in practice. That intrigues me about him for next year but it’s not worth caring about when he’s got one foot out the door already.
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@BeddieKU23 I’d be happy to keep him and Kohl with the Flory ship pretty much already sailed. You wouldn’t think he would command a ton of money in the portal.
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@kjayhawks2.0 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:
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about 11 hours ago@drgnslayr that’s is a possibility for sure and I hope it happens. I just don’t trust Bill and this staff ability to create a roster good enough to win conference and national championships. Like I’ve said before right now the top teams not only the country but our own conference are bigger, faster, stronger and more athletic. Flory may have been those things against most of the teams we played he was just inexperienced. At the other 4 spots went heavily the other way and the guys on the bench of top teams were unmeasurable levels above ours. We may have had the worst bench in the Bill Self era with Mari and Elmarko getting most of those minutes. Sadly it didn’t have to be that way with guy we had in warms up all season. Maybe as you say those two transferring could be a huge blessing in disguise.
I still feel like we are at the lingering residue period after making the largest blunder in KU recruiting history... bringing in Dickinson. I agree our bench was weak. Hard to say Self has issues with recruiting if he lands Stokes... that will put us at the top of the recruiting battle. I think our biggest issue is development. Our starting 5 was solid this year and we didn't capitalize. When we did have DP, we didn't come anywhere near utilizing his potential. I've never seen us run so few sets or plays on offense. We can't blame it all on DP being in and out. Elmarko wasn't great, but he knew the offense. A little bit I blame on Self overtouting DP early on. That hurt the team. The other players felt a bit inferior and then didn't perform well while DP was out there because they thought he should control everything.
It's time for a coaching change after this year. We need new vitality out of coaching. It's not only Self that's tired...
Going back to our ability to recruit out of the portal. Look at the cumulative crop of guys we have snagged from the portal. Out of those guys, who have we maximized their use for us? If you look at their stats, most had better stats coming in to our program. Often they had better stats after leaving.
For one thing, Self's coaching style hasn't changed enough to keep up with this. His style was never to get the max out of players in one year. Back in the good old days, we would have players, usually for at least 2 - 3 years. Prime example: TRob. We need to adjust our system around only having players for one year.
I smell a run! (better buy more toilet paper)
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