Transfer Portal - 2024

[robertearle]

Good guess on how many we may be looking for but the news isn't how many but who.
The announcements will please OSU fans immensely and exasperate everyone else.

It isn't a "guess", it's math.

So, nothing more than another set of "I know something you don't" posts.

What is the point?

[Hockeybuckeye]

Telling us OSU needs some bodies from the portal isn't really "breaking news".

Good guess on how many we may be looking for but the news isn't how many but who.
The announcements will please OSU fans immensely and exasperate everyone else.

[robertearle]

Sorry, sworn to secrecy but no one & done!
You'll know by mid week and the Portal Queen isn't done yet! Pick a handful of who you think are the most desirable in the portal and keep an eye on their social media and see if I'm right.

So all your posts actually say is Muzerall is getting some players out of the portal.

Well, as best I can tell, OSU has ten players who have exhausted their eligibility, plus one who seems to simple have left the team mid-season. And an incoming recruiting class of six. That leaves the roster about five players short (assuming nobody transfers out).

Telling us OSU needs some bodies from the portal isn't really "breaking news".

[Hockeybuckeye]

Sorry, sworn to secrecy but no one & done!
You'll know by mid week and the Portal Queen isn't done yet! Pick a handful of who you think are the most desirable in the portal and keep an eye on their social media and see if I'm right.

[robertearle]

And you couldn't be more correct!
The newly signed have already been on campus and announcements forthcoming!
The girls will post on their social media and OSU will post over the next 3 days. If any of you think she grabbed the top ones again that's a big YUP!!

Show us you actually know something: tell us how many there are, and how many are one-year rentals.

[Hockeybuckeye]

Muzzination gets literally whoever they want in recruiting and the portal

And you couldn't be more correct!
The newly signed have already been on campus and announcements forthcoming!
The girls will post on their social media and OSU will post over the next 3 days. If any of you think she grabbed the top ones again that's a big YUP!!

[robertearle]

An interesting goalie newly in the portal today: Tindra Holm, from LIU. Yeah, LUI, but really good numbers, and has played on the Swedish national team. Maybe she might want to spend a year stepping up a level; and her coach at LIU, Kelly Nash, will tell her what it's like to play for Mark Johnson. :-)

[Hockeybuckeye]

The Muzzinator has her picks locked in!

[robertearle]

Just an FYI: Despite being Easter Sunday, today was also the day the portal opened up for undergrad transfers for men's hockey.

41 players entered today (as far as we know right now) !

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The 'final count' for Sunday appears to have been 47. Already another 20 this morning (as of 11 AM CDT).

I mean, wow!

[joecct]

Many people find the color green offensive. Don't take it personally.

Gold, dude. Gold.

But the gold is getting rarer in our coffers

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

It's my opinion that I don't think the Muzzinator would take on a player who would want something more to come here. That could be a problem in the locker room and so far she's been blessed that there have been no division or drama queens in the locker room.

Cheese and rice...It really is all duckies and bunnies in slOwSU land. Muzzination gets literally whoever they want in recruiting and the portal, plus they are the bestest players you could imagine. None are self-centered who create "division or are "drama queens".

Please...

[Hockeybuckeye]

It's my opinion that I don't think the Muzzinator would take on a player who would want something more to come here. That could be a problem in the locker room and so far she's been blessed that there have been no division or drama queens in the locker room.

[robertearle]

On the Wisconsin women's hockey website when you click the roster and see the players listed You can click on a link to essentially hire them to do something to earn some money from you. I told my son his investment company that he works for should hire Brita and she can do some sort of ad campaign with all the Natty hardware she has.

The university has a few employees who work on "NIL and Community Outreach", coordinating efforts "finding creative and innovative ways for Wisconsin student-athletes to develop their personal brands in the NIL space and leads communications strategy for the Badgers Give Back program". (Badgers Give Back is stuff like charity appearances, and visits to Children's Hospital, etc.). The main UW NIL effort is called "YouDub"; they have a web site that describes three 'parts': the "Varsity Collective", the "YouDub Marketplace", the individual personal appearance kind of thing that Tim referred to, and "name" t-shirts and jerseys, etc, which the named athlete gets a percentage of the money. The "collective", as best I understand things - which is "poorly" - is something all big schools have and is where all the big donor money goes through onto the football and basketball type athletes.

I know a woman a little bit who works as part of the "NIL and Community Outreach" effort. I happened to see her at volleyball shortly after she got that position (from her previous job in the athletic department, in "social media") and joked that it meant she'd get 10% of any deals she helped arrange.

I have seen a very few basketball players and one or two football players doing local TV ads. Other than those, "NIL" is pretty much invisible, as far as I see.


uwbadgers.com/feature/you-dub

uwbadgers.com/sports/2018/7/16/badgers-give-back.aspx

[BadgerPete]

On the Wisconsin women's hockey website when you click the roster and see the players listed You can click on a link to essentially hire them to do something to earn some money from you. I told my son his investment company that he works for should hire Brita and she can do some sort of ad campaign with all the Natty hardware she has.

A few of them have promotional deals with Kwik Trip. Simms, O'Brien (and Compher last year) would post #poweredbykwiktrip coffee runs on social media a bunch.

[Timothy A]

Well none of us know this for sure. Since, as of right now, none of the NIL deals are done by the athletics departments themselves. But give it a year and it probably will be. I know there are Gopher players in the non-revenue sports who apparently have gotten small deals around Minneapolis. For example, a Gopher athlete wore a t-shirt from a particular Dinkytown bar and participated in certain promotional activities for them. That's fine.

On the Wisconsin women's hockey website when you click the roster and see the players listed You can click on a link to essentially hire them to do something to earn some money from you. I told my son his investment company that he works for should hire Brita and she can do some sort of ad campaign with all the Natty hardware she has.