https://x.com/theportalreport/status/2043363394032427138?s=46&t=at8kc9mPPiJ11sWji-4ekA

@ThePortalReport

Utah Valley transfer Tyler Hendricks has received interest from the following programs, he tells TPR:

USC
George Washington
High Point
Clemson
FSU
Notre Dame

Anything more specific you can provide?

Plus not playing hard would have just cost them $. They would get more $ in the portal if they were coming from a more successful team. I'm not buying that.  If that was the attitude of any player then I'm happy they left. Nessah story sounds plausible. 

Last edited by Florida Colonial (4/12/2026 9:09 pm)

Disagree about Nessah.  He showed more than enough to warrant keeping him and letting him further develop at GW.  He could have found his confidence the same way that Christian Jones did after a redshirt season.  It's extremely difficult to go from being among the best players on every team you play on to playing three minutes, sitting down, playing another two minutes, and then sitting down again. While that is understandable as a freshman, it would have been a miscalculation on CC's part, IMO, if he truly felt he'd be riding the bench again this past season.  The extenuating circumstance here could have been if the coaching staff had no faith that he would ever be healthy, but Nessah put that theory to rest at Cleveland State.

Bringing up the plausibility of his returning to GW borders absurdity.  Scorers in particular want to play, CC suppressed that opportunity, and now we're discussing the young man's willingness to play again for CC?  I can only think of myself being buried at the end of the bench of my high school team (there was me and one other so I did have company) and I can assure you that I never would have had the slightest interest in playing for that coach again.

https://x.com/dushawnlondon1/status/2043509914677461439?s=46&t=at8kc9mPPiJ11sWji-4ekA

@DushawnLondon1

6'8 Wing Colin Smith from UC Santa Barbara has garnered interest from the following programs, per his representatives @Octagon

West Virginia
SMU
Baylor
Texas Tech
San Diego
UTEP
UNLV
Nevada
Virginia
George Washington
Tulsa
USC
Minnesota
UCF
Northwestern
Rutgers

The Dude wrote:

CC has consistently upgraded the talent via the portal, we've had better players coming in than departing, I expect more of the same this year

Generally agree, but with the way the big man market is, we’re not going to be able to get a big the caliber of Castro.

Going to have to piece it together differently next season.

Second year in a row Cincinnati has taken George Mason's starting Center.  If I were Tony Skinn, I'd be wondering if they had a mole on his staff.

dmvpiranha wrote:

Nessah's agent got greedy and wanted more money, Dayan also wanted more playing time than CC could promise. Not sure it goes deeper than that. While Nessah had a good year at Cleveland State, he was still unable to prove that he could stay healthy over a full season, missing the last few weeks of the season. The reality is that he hasn't stayed healthy for several years even before he came to GW. Hopefully for Loyola and him, that changes next year. Talent has never been the issue.

CC has not had the best track record with the international guys, but he's also not had the chance to coach any of them for more than a year. Most of these guys need a transition year to get used to CBB. Zam was an exception and stayed a second year, but then he got hurt. There was a time where the international guys were more loyal earlier in the NIL era due to how much money they could make on a visa but now that they can get as much money as the US guys that's gone out the window. If anything, it seems the overseas players are less likely to stick around than the domestic guys now.

Also, blaming Drumgoole for Nessah not playing makes no sense. Gerald was no doubt a frustrating player, but the two didn't play the same position on the floor. At least Drumgoole commanded a bit of respect of defenses from 3 however inefficient he was. Nessah wasn't stretching the floor on a team that had limited shooting. Additionally, how could CC feel that Nessah was going to get no playing time with Bubu or Marshall around? Dayan was already long gone by the time either had even committed to GW. Had Nessah stuck around CC would have no doubt altered his recruiting approach.

Drumgoole took up the lion's share of minutes that were promised to Nessah while he was recruited.  It was close to impossible to show his skills and shooting when as GWMayhem stated he played for 3 minutes then was quickly benched...and he was never in the flow of the offense. He was generally the 8th or 9th player off the bench. Also while Bubu and others weren't at GW yet-- the interactions with them were taking place and CC wanted to open up more slots to bring in these prospective players. Bubu was just one of several players he was wooing (no pun intended)and he needed more openings and thus asked Nessah to leave

Last edited by Martiniboy (4/13/2026 7:08 pm)

Martiniboy wrote:

Drumgoole took up the lion's share of minutes that were promised to Nessah while he was recruited. It was close to impossible to show his skills and shooting when as GWMayhem stated he played for 3 minutes then was quickly benched...and he was never in the flow of the offense. He was generally the 8th or 9th player off the bench. Also while Bubu and others weren't at GW yet-- the interactions with them were taking place and CC wanted to open up more slots to bring in these prospective players. Bubu was just one of several players he was wooing (no pun intended)and he needed more openings and thus asked Nessah to leave

Nessah primarily played at the 4, a position that Drumgoole played no minutes at. I would understand the argument if it was Buchanan or Hansen possibly taking minutes away, but both of them had more experience in CBB as well. To play devil's advocate and make the case that Drumgoole was taking Nessah's minutes, the lineups would still have to make sense. Dayan has made 12 threes across two seasons of college. He's not stretching the floor in a meaningful way, so he couldn't really play at the 3 alongside two other bigs without compromising floor spacing on offense. Hansen could stretch the floor a bit (which is why he ended up starting over Jun down the stretch in CC's scheme), but he wasn't shooting threes at a high volume either for CC to roll with a three big lineup consistently.

CC's substitution patterns have certainly been questioned the past couple of years so I won't disagree with the notion that it may have hurt some of Dayan's confidence. However, some of Nessah's hesitancy also came from playing CBB for the first time. That's an adjustment that the majority of the international guys face and it can take a year to get comfortable.

I am still high on Dayan's potential, but his inability to stay healthy also has to be factored into the discussion. It's why other schools were hesitant to pull the trigger in his initial recruitment as well.
 

adclub wrote:

How does our roster turnover stack up to others in the A-10?

Roster turnover generally tracks with $ in the A10

Least Amount of Turnover: SLU, VCU

Next Tier: Dayton

Then everyone else