UNH's Herrion, other coaches, have no choice but to embrace the transfer portal

[Dannymacfan]

When it comes to the NCAA transfer portal, college basketball coaches have no choice but to take the good with the bad.

Let’s look at University of New Hampshire coach Bill Herrion, for example. Since UNH’s season ended with a loss to Binghamton in the America East tournament quarterfinals earlier this month, five UNH players have entered the transfer portal: senior Nick Guadarrama, senior Jayden Martinez, senior Qon Murphy, sophomore K.J. McClurg and sophomore Marco Foster. That’s the bad.
 

“The point is it’s leveled the playing field where no one is relying on freshmen anymore. High school kids aren’t even getting recruited. They don’t even really have a chance right now. Why take an 18-year-old kid who isn’t physically ready when you can take a kid who has two or three years of college basketball under his belt and has been in the weight room for the last three years at the school he’s been at and is physically developed? That’s the decision everyone is making right now. I’ve Zoomed with maybe three high school kids in the last two years.”

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