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North Texas transfer forward Brenen Lorient commits to West Virginia - On3

listed as a commit 4/8/25 https://247sports.com/player/curtis-stinson-jr-46133387/ 6'4" 180lb PG from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH (between Cleveland and Akron). from what I can find online, it looks like he averaged 19.5ppg, 7rpg, 3.5apg for his senior season. his father, Curtis Stinson, was a big-time scoring guard at Iowa State...averaged 19.5ppg his last season with the Cyclones...and then bounced around the G-League and Europe for a decade of pro ball. this looks like a legit big get for us...and imma say speaks a bit to my point earlier about these level of players starting to become more and more available to top mid-major programs. I bet 5 years ago he goes to ISU to sit for a year or two

figured I'd try to stream-line things in one place as news starts to trickle in over the next few days and weeks. players can always come back after testing the portal waters, but pretty safe bet to say we'll have an entirely new roster come fall next season. **some new additions just today** as of 4/8/25: - Je'Shawn Stevenson - 6'2" 200, Soph - Dylan Arnett - 6'9" 240 Sr. - Reece Robinson - 6'8" 225 Soph - Cahmai Crosby - 6'3" 180 Jr(?) - Logan Alexander - 6'8" 185 Fr. - Curtis Stinson Jr - 6'4" 180 Fr. - EJ Horton - 6'3" 180 Fr - DJ Thomas - 6'7" 220 Fr (I'll keep him here until it's confirmed otherwise) Stinson, from the Cleveland area, is listed as the 23rd best point guard prospect in the country, per 24/7, offers from Iowa State, Nebraska and Mizzou Horton, from Ontario, had 15 offers including CSU...mostly MAC/Horizon/Summit league-level programs clearly Robisnon's relationships with both landed the commitments...I'd say Horton was likely destined for CSU...Stinson was probably a tier above, but maybe really connected with Coach Robisnon.

will be curious to see how his game and roll evolve in the Big 12. commits to West Virginia.

again, I definitely hear you...but that $200K/year, in what I'll just call "sunk cost" for the sake of this discussion, has always factored into financial math of a basketball roster. you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a team that goes too much deeper than 10 players for a season, so there are always 3-4 non-contributing scholarship players now, you could make the case that those 3-4 players were thought of as developmental and NIL has taken that away...but I A. think the sample size is too small to definitively say that and B. would suggest that you could go back pre-NIL, 20 years, 30 years ago and agin you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a roster that had 13 eventual contributing scholarship players...players transfer, players don't develop...there's always a miss-rate now, if you wanna make the argument that we somehow cut down to only using 10-11 of our scholarships...and maybe get creative with the accounting and funnel some of that savings into NIL...I'm listening. also, I really don't know the answer here, is a scholarship an actual expense? or is it just a sort of debit to the university's ledger?