Transfer Portal 2025

[CoachTalk]

I would have prioritized Javontae Campbell over Collins. He's just a better player. This is a bit of a Jordan Goldwire deal. Good passer, very good defender. If you can get him to only shoot shots he can make, he could make a leap, but chances are he's going to keep shooting it at a low %. Also, significantly more athletic than small guards from this year's team (Duke and Kobe). Solid ballhandler.

I think they know they can pull Cambell at any point. Just reading bw the lines

 

[colston15]

statistically Collins = Elvis in many ways, but Collins is MUCH better athletically.

I don’t have testing numbers to prove that, but watching both play it’s clear.

If he has an auxiliary role, I think it’s a good add. If he’s the lead guard, we are in trouble.

 

[IndySooner]

statistically Collins = Elvis in many ways, but Collins is MUCH better athletically.

I don’t have testing numbers to prove that, but watching both play it’s clear.

If he has an auxiliary role, I think it’s a good add. If he’s the lead guard, we are in trouble.

I think that's sort of the overall point. We need difference makers. But we also need role players. We have a better base to start with this year, so get a couple difference makers and a few role players and we're in better shape going into next season.

 

[TEvans4Three]

statistically Collins = Elvis in many ways, but Collins is MUCH better athletically.

I don’t have testing numbers to prove that, but watching both play it’s clear.

If he has an auxiliary role, I think it’s a good add. If he’s the lead guard, we are in trouble.

Going to ask this question...
How many players do you know, who have started every place they have been for the last 3 years, willing to take an auxiliary role?

I think he is going to commit with the intention of being a starter. I hope I am wrong.

ASU - 35 games, 34 starts (27.9 MG)
ASU - 32 games, 32 starts (32.3 MPG)
TCU - 9 games, 9 starts (30.9 MPG)

For reference:
Jeremiah Fears, 34 games, 31 starts (30.2 MPG)
Kobe Elvis, 34 games, 16 starts (23.6 MPG)

 

[BoulderSooner]

I mean, I wouldn't say upgrade by metrics standards at all. I would say same.

If you are going to downgrade at Fears, you need to, at least, significantly upgrade across the board.

kobe was also a very good catch and shoot 3 point guy

 

[BoulderSooner]

I know this is a semantics issue, not trying to be harping on it but all the metrics do not say he is an upgrade. You even said that in your post. He is not better offensively at all. He is defensively. Then you said it was a push, I agree.

Metrics also show the same thing. Push.

Also, want to point out...his 2024-25 numbers are in 9 games only, nonconference play.

Here is his game log:

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So the good teams he played (Michigan, Xavier, Vanderbilt):

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Shooting numbers are not great. (yes, only a 3 game sample)

I am just going to choose to believe that he is the guy from the Xavier game and the other games didn't happen ...

 

[WichitaSooner]

Doesn’t seem like great news. When a guy has been a starter his entire career, is entering his fourth season, and is your FIRST commit (assuming it happens), that seems to indicate that he will not be a 15-20 minute guy off the bench. And when you look at Moser’s history, the guys he brings in via the portal almost always start and/or play major minutes. A guard with those shooting numbers … yikes. I’m already cringing thinking of him shooting an important one-and-one.

I’m sure it’s been posted but I’m too lazy to go back through and find it — what other schools have serious interest in him?

 

[BoulderSooner]

Doesn’t seem like great news. When a guy has been a starter his entire career, is entering his fourth season, and is your FIRST commit (assuming it happens), that seems to indicate that he will not be a 15-20 minute guy off the bench. And when you look at Moser’s history, the guys he brings in via the portal almost always start and/or play major minutes. A guard with those shooting numbers … yikes. I’m already cringing thinking of him shooting an important one-and-one.

I’m sure it’s been posted but I’m too lazy to go back through and find it — what other schools have serious interest in him?

I will say he did adjust with Kobe (for good or bad is a different discussion )

 

[colston15]

Going to ask this question...
How many players do you know, who have started every place they have been for the last 3 years, willing to take an auxiliary role?

I think he is going to commit with the intention of being a starter. I hope I am wrong.

ASU - 35 games, 34 starts (27.9 MG)
ASU - 32 games, 32 starts (32.3 MPG)
TCU - 9 games, 9 starts (30.9 MPG)

For reference:
Jeremiah Fears, 34 games, 31 starts (30.2 MPG)
Kobe Elvis, 34 games, 16 starts (23.6 MPG)

I don’t mind if he’s a starter as long as he’s our third or fourth option.

We also don’t know how he fits into the larger plans or if he’s even coming, though it does appear to be trending that way.

If Collins is a bargain buy to save cap space for bigger fish, I think we would all take that.

 

[cvangild]

Doesn’t seem like great news. When a guy has been a starter his entire career, is entering his fourth season, and is your FIRST commit (assuming it happens), that seems to indicate that he will not be a 15-20 minute guy off the bench. And when you look at Moser’s history, the guys he brings in via the portal almost always start and/or play major minutes. A guard with those shooting numbers … yikes. I’m already cringing thinking of him shooting an important one-and-one.

I’m sure it’s been posted but I’m too lazy to go back through and find it — what other schools have serious interest in him?

When he entered, he initially heard from SJ, SMU, USC, Kentucky, Vandy. This was per Jeff Borzello.

 

[TEvans4Three]

When he entered, he initially heard from SJ, SMU, USC, Kentucky, Vandy. This was per Jeff Borzello.

SJ - "No"
SMU - "No"
USC - "No"
Kentucky - "Who?"
Vandy - "No"

jkjk

 

[StoopsBros]

Doesn’t seem like great news. When a guy has been a starter his entire career, is entering his fourth season, and is your FIRST commit (assuming it happens), that seems to indicate that he will not be a 15-20 minute guy off the bench. And when you look at Moser’s history, the guys he brings in via the portal almost always start and/or play major minutes. A guard with those shooting numbers … yikes. I’m already cringing thinking of him shooting an important one-and-one.

I’m sure it’s been posted but I’m too lazy to go back through and find it — what other schools have serious interest in him?

He seems to be down to OU and Vandy....unless something changed/changes.

He was supposed to visit SMU after Vandy but I don't see any signs that he did. I think OU reached out and got him to Norman instead. But that's just gut + reading the ON3 SMU board (good reporter, didn't report him at SMU).

Kentucky, St John's, and USC don't want him. Agent fluff, initial contact (Muss contacts every damn portal entry lol).

UK wants to win, they would never take Collins to start. Pope is trying to keep his job. UK fans:



Frankie's next stop will be his 9th.



Even in this portal/NIL era, it's insanely gross to be that nomadic basketball-wise....especially as a lead guard. It's also quite amazing that he wears out his welcome and the schools he left are okay with him leaving. TCU will now get better (I know he only played 9 games...but he frees up a spot).

This staff sucks, man. They need a GM, desperately. Moser's undoing will be his inability to evaluate talent and putting together a complete roster.

Regardless of limping into the tourney, Moser's on a hot seat and taking Frankie (if it happens) shows a stubbornness beyond belief.

 

[Moneyball]

Bob on the radio said the Sooners felt REALLY good about Collins coming out of that visit…

 

[BulldogSooner]

The Collins hate is so bizarre to me, but to each their own

 

[StoopsBros]

Bob on the radio said the Sooners felt REALLY good about Collins coming out of that visit…

 

[TINY]

This is Kobe Elvis all over again.

Things Collins does well:

-Defense
-Assists

Things Collins does not do well:
-Shoot the ball
-Score efficiently

Listen, Frankie has been the same player for the last 3 years, nothing more nothing less. The staff know what they are getting. Close to a 2:1 AST:TO ratio player who can play some defense.

Here is how his seasons would look against our guards this past year:
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*(sidenote: realGM and sports-reference use different calculations for their ORtg and DRtg)

That free throw shooting percentage is a deal breaker.

NEXT.

 

[WichitaSooner]

This also feels like the annual Moser overcorrection. One year, we tried getting more athletic. He failed miserably coaching that roster, so then he decided to go heavy on shooting, even though it meant we went into the SEC with a horribly unathletic roster that anyone with a basic understanding of college hoops knew would get us killed in that league. Now, after we were awful defensively, he is targeting a guard who is apparently an upgrade defensively, even though Collins will not bring much to the table offensively. It just never ends.

 

[austing7]

on the bright side, Bob P said that Tae Davis is trending in the other direction. Maybe signifies we feel confident about other targets (tre white, stillwell, etc.)

 

[TINY]

Going to ask this question...
How many players do you know, who have started every place they have been for the last 3 years, willing to take an auxiliary role?

I think he is going to commit with the intention of being a starter. I hope I am wrong.

ASU - 35 games, 34 starts (27.9 MG)
ASU - 32 games, 32 starts (32.3 MPG)
TCU - 9 games, 9 starts (30.9 MPG)

For reference:
Jeremiah Fears, 34 games, 31 starts (30.2 MPG)
Kobe Elvis, 34 games, 16 starts (23.6 MPG)

Why did he only play 9 games? Injury? If so, what kind?

I don’t like the idea of 3 of our top guards coming off of serious injuries…

 

[StoopsBros]

Why did he only play 9 games? Injury? If so, what kind?

I don’t like the idea of 3 of our top guards coming off of serious injuries…

Broken foot.