Transfer Portal 2025

[The_Banker]

It’s not just about money. It’s also about what you think gives you the best chance to make it to the highest level in one of the two sports. Baseball is the hardest sport in the world to excel at. Most big league folks will tell you they want prospects to have a couple thousand minor league plate appearances under their belts before they even think about calling them up, and that’s for players good enough to make the bigs. If he goes to college and tries to play both, he would maybe get 750 plate appearances in three years, and that’s if he comes in and starts from day one. He’d miss fall ball and would have to decide whether to play summer ball or workout with the basketball team. The baseball/basketball double is even more difficult than baseball/football because of the schedule overlap.

Something also to note on this Blair stuff, OU Basketball and Baseball played on the same day 8 times this season. If you include travel days then its 10 Baseball games. So is Baseball going to be without a top 5 round MLB prospect for 10 games? or is Basketball going to be without a scholarship player for 8 games this season and beyond?

Football/Baseball works

Basketball/Baseball I'm still not sure how it works.

 

[daqman]

Wague was going to start for alabama his last year until he got hurt in the preseason and missed too much practice to get his place in the rotation.

I like the kid and think he will give us decent to good play next year. I think he will give us a competitive defender innthe post for however many minutes we can get out of him.

i don't follow bama closely but i would be shocked if they were counting on wague to start for them. totally shocked.

 

[Boom Soon]

Something also to note on this Blair stuff, OU Basketball and Baseball played on the same day 8 times this season. If you include travel days then its 10 Baseball games. So is Baseball going to be without a top 5 round MLB prospect for 10 games? or is Basketball going to be without a scholarship player for 8 games this season and beyond?

Football/Baseball works

Basketball/Baseball I'm still not sure how it works.

Very good point!

 

[cowboysooner]

Have no idea on Blair. But, on Nickson, I agree with Coach. I watched him play basketball and he is a very good athlete, but is basically a muscular 6'5/6 center. Can't see any way he can be a successful frontcourt player at that height at the Power 5 level. JMO, but I don't think he has the skill to be a perimeter player. If he wants a chance to play pro sports, it is in football. I don't have any idea how good a football player he is or can become, but his body type and athletic traits fit the sport much better.

 

[61sooner]

Ryan did very well playing the basketball/baseball double. Did Lester Lane do that same double?
The odd double was Bookout basketball/track.

 

[austing7]

Delcan Duru Jr., recent Tom Fox follow on Twitter I believe

 

[colston15]

Something also to note on this Blair stuff, OU Basketball and Baseball played on the same day 8 times this season. If you include travel days then its 10 Baseball games. So is Baseball going to be without a top 5 round MLB prospect for 10 games? or is Basketball going to be without a scholarship player for 8 games this season and beyond?

Football/Baseball works

Basketball/Baseball I'm still not sure how it works.

If he’s in the rotation (unlikely) it might be an issue.

But if he’s in a Fredson-Cole role and he goes to a baseball game instead of suiting up to ride pine, would we even know the difference?

For home games, all he’d have to do is walk across the street, assuming there was some stagger in game times.

 

[WichitaSooner]

If he’s in the rotation (unlikely) it might be an issue.

But if he’s in a Fredson-Cole role and he goes to a baseball game instead of suiting up to ride pine, would we even know the difference?

For home games, all he’d have to do is walk across the street, assuming there was some stagger in game times.

I think people really underestimate how difficult it is. One of my close childhood friends started as a freshman in center field and at WR for a Big 12 school. Was an absolute stud and was recruited very heavily by a lot of schools. After one year playing both, he decided to focus on football exclusively. He knew he would never reach his potential in either sport if he kept trying to do both.

 

[Moneyball]

 

[cmdsooner]

No surprises.

 

[BoulderSooner]

He loves Skip and Porter. Committed to OU because of them. People are ranked that high and go in the 8th or 10th because the likelihood they’ll actually sign. With NIL, the money isn’t drastically different and a chance to play college ball and move up in the draft. He goes to De La Salle. I doubt money is too big of a concern. Kids a great two sport athlete

guys in the top 10 ROUNDs not to sign

• 2024: 4
• 2023: 1
• 2022: 3
• 2021: 3
• 2020: 0 (covid 5-round draft)
• 2019: 2
• 2018: 4 (all 1st or supp-1st rounders)
• 2017: 3
• 2016: 2
• 2015: 6

 

[BoulderSooner]

Some like to act like Wague played the way he played at the end of the season....the whole season. They forget how bad he was at times. In other games, he didn't play long enough to be bad or good because of fouls. Godwin wasn't great by any means, but he had some good moments. The truth is, neither should have been starting for us. And tbh, I am a tad concerned about that spot for next year, assuming we add no one else. Wague will get in foul trouble at times, that a certainty...so I hope the freshman is ready.

i think the point is that maybe wague would have gotten to where he was at the end of the season much much faster if he was playing big min in the Non con

 

[pnkranger]

No surprises.

Would have been a great frontcourt piece, but also an opportunity for Kai to step up.

 

[PortersPosse]

Gotta play a neutral site game in places that are going to host the next two years. Why Arkansas and OU played in Tulsa and why we’ve played in Wichita some lately.

 

[pnkranger]

OKC is hosting a first / second round pod in 2026...

 

[pnkranger]

Delcan Duru Jr., recent Tom Fox follow on Twitter I believe

This guy is interesting. 6'8" 225 but passing like he's Terrell Everett. Looks like a solid player with good size but where's he going to play. seems a little more in the 3/4 mold than the 4/5 mold.

 

[Moneyball]