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    The Rise of Portal Detectives -- an Oklahomahoops.com Story

    I should have told the AI author to look after our local celebs. My bad!
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    The AI model clearly has it out for you. Lol
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    The Rise of Portal Detectives -- an Oklahomahoops.com Story

    Inside the Message Board Network That Outsmarts the Modern Transfer Market NORMAN, OKLA. — The first rumor didn’t come from a reporter. It didn’t come from a coach, or a recruiting service, or even a player. It came from a message board. On the morning of March 3, the first post appeared in...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of April 14–17, 2025 Theme: ESPN Says We’re Not Crazy ✅ National Recognition Hits After weeks of analysis, debate, and subtle dread, the board gets a boost: ESPN releases its transfer rankings — and OU’s new additions are all there. Xzavier Brown – Ranked No. 25 Nijel Pack – Ranked...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of April 7–13, 2025 Theme: Brown Arrives, and the Board Buys In 🔥 Xzavier Brown Enters the Thread Out of St. Joe’s comes Xzavier Brown, and unlike some of the earlier names, this one doesn’t take time to win people over. He’s tough. He plays hard. And he feels exactly like the kind of...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of March 31 – April 6, 2025 Theme: The Pack Era (Maybe) Begins 🚨 The Big Name Appears After weeks of watching other teams flash cash and flip commits, OU fans finally get their splash headline: Nijel Pack is in play. Former Kansas State standout Most recently at Miami Legit...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of March 24–30, 2025 Theme: A Name Appears, and NIL Numbers Explode 🚨 The Tae Davis Rumor Surfaces The thread finally gets a specific, name-level rumor: Tae Davis, a 6’7” wing from Notre Dame. This is the first moment the board starts reacting to a realistic, confirmed target — not a...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of March 17–23, 2025 Theme: Scheming, Scouting, and Searching for “A Jalon Moore” 📉 From Philosophy to Personnel By mid-March, the thread's tone makes a subtle but important shift: we move from existential griping about Moser and NIL to how the heck are we going to build a roster? The...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of March 10–16, 2025 Theme: Coaching Fatigue Meets Portal Reality 🔥 The Moser Debate Intensifies With the regular season winding down and Texas looming on the schedule, the conversation shifts from player speculation to a referendum on Porter Moser. The board splits into two camps...
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    Transfer Portal Thread Recaps

    🗓️ Week of March 3–9, 2025 Theme: Portal Window Cracks Open, and So Does the NIL Discourse 🔓 Early Portal Watch The Transfer Portal 2025 thread kicks off with low-stakes scouting: D2 and mid-major names pop up thanks to @portal_updates, and the first handful of posts are equal parts data-dump...
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    Transfer Portal 2025

    🏀 April 16, 2025 | Portal Moves & Message Board Mayhem 🔁 The Sooners have notched a few wins in the 2025 transfer portal, but fans are laser-focused on the bigger picture — and what they still haven’t landed. A consistent point of frustration? The perceived talent gap between OU’s additions...
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    Transfer Portal 2025

    No sOUp for yOU
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    New ARENA as part of entertainment District

    They moved the timeline up. Opening briefs due 4/28, completed within 31 days.
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    Transfer Portal 2025

    Happy to mess around with this. Either here or in another thread. But I don’t want to clutter things, especially if it’s not something most people want.
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    Transfer Portal 2025

    🏀 April 15, 2025 | The Wayman Tisdale Men’s Hoops Board Digest As the Oklahoma Sooners continue to work the 2025 transfer portal, one name has dominated recent fan conversations: Kai Rogers, the highly-touted freshman center recruit. The forums are buzzing with opinions — ranging from sky-high...
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