I saw on FB that this is the second Aggie to come to the Utes. Help me out, who was the first?
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You keep saying this, but we were a LONG ways from the tourney this year. What makes you think we would have been a ālockā next year with the same Flawed team?
Who was the first one? I saw the recent commitment from Worster.
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FWIW this tweet was posted and deleted this morning by 247. If the mystery additional guy wasnāt Anthony, maybe it was David Collette 
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Yeah heās coming to Utah
I know Worster is, but who is the other one?
Thereās another one? This is news to me
Not positive, but on Twitter or 247Sports, another USU player was named. But that may have been an error, and the player meant to be mentioned was Worster. So some folks ran with that thinking two USU players were transferring to Utah. As Gilda Radnerās character Roseanadanna would say in SNL, āNever mind.ā
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That would be Emily Litella.
But thanks for the clarification.
I dont know if this will end up happening, but the 247 error was USUās Marco Anthony. If that happens, that would be a terrific get for us. We need perimeter defenders and thats him.
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Gilda was simply brilliant. So sad we lost her so young.
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Marco and Rollie are the only two that were offered. Marco will be here shortly.
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Iām not familiar with any of these players but generally speaking, it appears the guys transferring out are getting offers from major programs while the guys coming in are from mid-major programs.
Plummer commits to Illinois.
Wow, Illinois was a very high seed in the NCAA tournament right? They must think highly of Plummer. I donāt see that hole being filled by the unlv transfer, I feel thatās likely a downgrade, but all Iām going off of is offers received.
Jenkins Worster and Anthony have all got calls from major programs around the country but choose to follow their coaches here. Itās all about relationships. New guys have em old guys donāt.
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Also, major/mid-major distinction matters less in basketball. A lot of mid-majors are better than majors. Two mids were in the Final Four this year.
What a mess. There might be fewer athletes that stayed with their program. There will be lots who donāt land a spot or scramble at the end and take whatever they can get. Lots of dreams will be lost, but this unique, likely 1-time occurrence (due to āfreeā covid year) is an opportunity many want to test.
With shortened or non-seasons for HS, coaches have a better idea of what they could get/who to recruit from the portal to build their teams back. It basically is now a free agent system. And likely will be chaos until top programs basically say they are full and athletes start accepting the best offers they feel they have (playing opportunity, home considerations, styles, etc.).
"Conversely one can assume that there are some decent bugs left among that mass of players that we can easily pick up."
No turds, no roaches!
Personally, I am hoping there are some decent bigs ā¦
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There is a lot of ācascadeā activity in the portal. One guy commits, and the guy who will lose minutes to that commit jumps in the portal.
I am also starting to worry about tampering. We know there are some unethical coaches out there, and I suspect some are taking advantage of the chaos in the portal.
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