Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - BEST AVAILABLE Transfer Portal Options for Jayhawks Basketball + Kansas' Revenue Share Plans

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Kansas Jayhawks basketball transfer portal hunt heats up. Who's on the radar for Bill Self's squad as they are late in the game with still three open scholarships remaining.Derek Johnson breaks down the top guards, wings, and big men available in the transfer portal, spotlighting potential role players like sharpshooter John Buggs III, Southern Illinois wing Ali Dibba, Rider big man Tariq Ingraham and more. The discussion shifts to KU's revenue share strategy, with Athletic Director Travis Goff revealing plans to allocate up to the full $20.5 million of revenue sharing, and how it could impact Lance Leipold with Kansas Football as well as Bill Self with KU Basketball. Johnson analyzes how these financial moves could reshape the Jayhawks' roster and impact their championship aspirations.Tune in for expert insights on Kansas' transfer targets and the financial decisions shaping the program's future.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGEfor $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

As Kansas is looking to still add three more possible players via internationally, the transfer portal, high school reclass, wherever it is, who are even still available in the transfer portal? Where could Kansas go as they maybe continue to scour who's available in this long extending off season? You are locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on Derek Johnson here, this is locked on Jayhawks.

Thanks for making it your first listen every day and thank you that every day is catching each and every episode of the show. You can find us on our YouTube page or you can like and subscribe to the show or anywhere that you get your audio side of things from the podcast standpoint. We're gonna be breaking down top players available for Kansas basketball still in the transfer portal from each position. Guards, Wings, Bigs. They're continuing to maybe look overseas as well but who is still out there in the transfer portal as we get closer and closer to the start of the school year and really

this stuff starting to wrap up. This episode of the show is brought to you by game time download the game time app creating account and use code locked on college for $20 off your first purchase with game time. Okay, so we're going to get started with some of the guards that are still available in the portal, then we'll get to more of our wings and our big men. And then we're going to finish up a little bit on today's show talking a little bit a bit about the KU athletics, their revenue

share split, because there's mentioned quotes given from story was raised a lot in the Kansas City Star. I will say before we get into this too, like, this isn't just going to be the only avenue for KU, obviously, they can look for high school reclasses, though, you know, maybe those are fewer and far between international prospects continues to be an interesting one. And certainly, it'll be interested to see, especially for like the bigs and wings at the international level is probably where you're trying to look for those. But also,

like some of the questions about are you going to be able to get players eligible and going through that process? Like those are still things that you're going to have to worry about with anybody that you try to bring in overseas. And so I still would set, you know, if you're filling out the roster, I would imagine there's going to at least be one international edition because it just makes the most sense at the biggest player pool. But yeah, like being able to get somebody from the transfer portal and make a lot of sense. Now, maybe if they're not wanting to go into like a guy like Bryce dessert, if you're not wanting to try to

get him eligible, maybe that is indicative to us that they don't even want to worry about getting somebody who might have to go through an NCAA process of getting eligible in terms of do they still have a year left to play? Do they still have eligibility? Or maybe that's part of the waiting game here why they still do have all these open scholarships that they are kind of waiting on some of these appeals to come with the NCAA and come through and see who gets approved who

gets denied and that will steer them in a certain direction. That brings us to our first guy who's still available in the transfer portal from the point guard, combo guard, shooting guard, one of those categories would be John Bugs III. I've done a deep dive on John Bugs III. Thank you, David Ayers, if you already caught that one. He's a fan favorite of mine because he is, for my money,

I mean, certainly right now I feel comfortable saying he's the best three-point shooter available in the portal. I guess you could argue Monsanto, but that's another thing. He's one of the best three-point shooters in the country, is one of the ways of putting it. He shot 41% from three this year, 45% the year before that. For his collegiate career, 91 games played, 5.6 three-point attempts per game at 41%. This dude is a knockdown shooter. He shoots them from everywhere. He shoots them from really deep. Elite shooting guard. He's six foot three. He comes from East Tennessee State. Now the question though, that I think is there with him. I mean, defense would be one of them. But that's not why you'd be bringing him in. Is he eligible because you go back to his freshman season, it was in the 2019 20 season with UMass, but he only played four games and then he had an injury he was out for the year. So he took a medical redshirt. So theoretically, he should be a redshirt freshman

coming into the 20 to 21 season did not play in the 20 to 21 season. I don't know if that was because of the injury or what. So I don't know how that counts with the NCAA clock. But it shouldn't count because that was the COVID year. So it would have counted if he played anyway. Then he goes to Hill College, which is the junior college, which again, we're saying the junior college thing doesn't count. So then he goes to UTSA for 2022, 2023,

North Texas the year after that in East Tennessee State, the year before that. But again, if we're not counting the JUCO year because of that ruling, if we're not counting the COVID year when he didn't play anyway, if we're not counting his UMass year when he only played four games and had a medical redshirt, then that means the only three years that

should count are the UTSA, North Texas East Tennessee State. And that would mean he has one year left to play. And maybe it's not that simple with the NCAA. But to me, feels like he should be. And he would be somebody that I would love for Kansas to add as an elite lethal three point shooter to the bench of the roster. Jarvis Moss, another guy that we've done a deep dive on again Thank you that every day or so if you already caught him and you can just search lock on Jay Hawks Jarvis Moss if you want to go see more, you know on him or her same with John bugs or whatever, right?

But Moss started his career at Stanford didn't play much went to Davidson again And not really a big part of the rotation then he goes to Radford this year and has his breakout year Was that just because he transferred down was it it because he happened to, you know, if he would have still been at Davidson, he would have had a breakout year anyway. But 13 and a half points per game. Again, good three point shooter, almost 38% on six and a half times per game. A little more three and D than bugs. I don't know that I would call Moss like an elite defender, but I think a little bit more of the three and D, but Moss not quite as good of a shooter as bugs potentially. So those are ones that maybe you

could bring in as guys that, you know, would make sense and kind of fitting into that Jalen Coleman lands diggy coit role now maybe we just had an episode on cam McDowell the transfer from division to check that out if you if you haven't already that was our Monday episode. And we talked a little bit about him and he would kind of fit into that role too. So these are just more options if that ends up, you know, falling through or he picks another school or Kansas

goes in another direction, whatever it ends up being these would be other options. Another guy would be Darren Boyd. He is a six foot 3210 pound guard from most recently Carl College of Charleston. And he put up almost 14 points per game for Carl at College of Charleston if I can speak my goodness this past season he really good three points you're 38.5% on 6.2 attempts per game year before that or the two years before that he was with Lipscomb in the Atlantic Sun and he put up double-digit game, including 17.6 points per game

his final year at Lipscomb. Overall, because I think he started his career at the junior college, or maybe it came at a lower level, because he only has three years of D1 play. So I'm assuming that's why he could have another year. But again, somebody who it's like, maybe Kay, he was waiting to see if he gets eligible or not. But the thing with Boyd, you're talking four and a half three point attempts per game over 86 D one collegiate games at 40.1% from three. So again, this is somebody who would come

in fit a specific role shooter off the bench, he would make a little bit of sense to me. Next guy is to nudge pet way. And this might be one that's that's, I don't know, he was he was all swag. But like the swag is seen as one of the worst conferences in D one college basketball. So he started his career at Stony Brook for a couple years. Then he goes to New Mexico State, which is up a level a little more, but only 14 minutes per game. So he goes back down, goes to Prairie View A&M where he shoots 44% from the floor,

33% from three on 5.2 attempts per game. He's at 3.4 attempts per game for his collegiate career, 31% from three. Not as much of a knockdown shooter is coming off a 17 point per game season. But again, lower league, this would be more one for me with pet way that you're just trying to fill out the roster. I don't know that I would classify him in the same way as like a moss or bugs. I'm like, okay, that guy could come in be your eighth or ninth man, a diggie coy, Jalen Coleman

Land's role pet way to me would be more in the the I don't know, competition with like, Shelby, and you know, I guess like, Corbin Allen, like for the back end of the roster of guys just looking to strengthen your depth and give you stuff in practice. So those would be the ones there as far as the two three wings, if we're looking to more that position, again, if you wanted to include McDowell into this conversation, which I think he deserves to be in this conversation, because clearly,

KU has some level of interest in bringing him on for a visit. And I think he's a pretty good player. I would probably view him like if I was ranking out these players, which one I would most want the ones I mentioned, I'd probably go bugs one, McDowell to Moss, either Moss or Boyd, maybe Boyd 3, Moss 4, and then Petway 5. And then if we added the 2-3 wing into the conversation, Ali Diba, he is like a 6'5, you can play him at the shooting guard, you can play him at the 3, I've mentioned him

a couple times, started his career at Chicago State, goes to Abilene Christian for two years, Southern Illinois for one. And again, maybe the conversation here is just him trying to get eligible. But that first year with Chicago State, he did start two games, 26 minutes per game, but only five games played. So I don't know if he had a season ending injury or what,

maybe he just has to wait for that to get medically red shirt cleared or whatever it is. But 34% from three this past year, 35 the year before. Now he's a little lower volume of a three-point shooter. That's the question here, but he's solid rebound rebounder about five rebounds per game this year four and a half the year before one and a half steals per game this year almost one and a half the year before that and really good field goal percentages overall 49 this year for his career is at 48% from the field so just an overall kind of score that you could maybe have as a benchwing somebody

coming off and maybe he wants a bigger role than that. Maybe that's part of why he's still in the portal to but those are some guards that I don't know that I would say I'm like keeping an eye on because at this point, Kansas already passed over them once but if you are kind of circling back on certain guys, those are some names that I think would make a little bit of sense for KU at least to some extent on what role they're playing. Let's continue on with

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Thanks for joining us on this episode of Lockdown J-Hawks talking some of the players still available in the transfer portal. So we got through some of the guards. What about some of the players on the wing? And again, if you wanted to include Diba as a wing or McDowell as a wing, because technically two threes can be counted as wings. That's fine. I just counted them as guards, just to split this up. So if you're looking at more wings like the three four style guys that you could play at the four, Keonte Jones will be the first one here. And so Jones began his career, not at the D one level as well. He went to

mineral area, community college, and was there for two seasons. And then he goes to Midland College, which was another junior college for one season. Now, one of those seasons at Mineral Area was the COVID year. So now he's coming in to CSUN as a junior, Cal State University, Northridge, and then comes there for this last year, which was technically a senior year. But if he's not going to have one of the juke oh years count, then boom, he has an extra year of

play, right? He put up really good numbers for Cal State Northridge playing alongside Marcus Adams from KU commit. He went for 13 points per game, nine rebounds per game for sis per game, almost two steals over a block per game, stat sheet stuffer and did it efficiently, almost 51% from the floor. Not a big three point shooter. But when he shoots him, they tend to go in only one point, one three point attempts per game over his two seasons with Cal State Northridge. It's a total of 76 three pointers and not a ton.

But he made him in almost 36% clip, including 38% this year. But again, this past year only 13 of 34. It's not a lot of made threes. But if this guy's a bench wing coming off, you know, who can just give you more depth of the three and four, you don't need him chucking up threes. Then, you know, you do have three scholarships left.

You could bring on a bench wing. You could bring on a bench guard who's a shooter, and then your bench big man, right? So you can still make that work in a lot of ways. The big question would be the shooting. But just in terms of a really good basketball player like Jones still being available. I find it interesting now he was

committed. I think it was USC I can't remember totally, but he committed so that is kind of let him being back in the portal. Another name that again, I feel weird saying keeping an eye on because I don't think there's been any like connected dots with KU but just that I find interesting if we are going to scour the portal again just to try to unearth any type of names we can and to be clear I don't know that there's any like players right now in the portal that KU could bring in and you'd be like yeah they they could compete for a starting role especially knowing that we already like they're going

to miss summer ball at this point in time I don't think exists. But can you get role players still in the portal? Yes, I do think they can find that and Jamir Simpson is one of those guys. So he was at Southern Utah this past season and before that he had spent the entirety of his career at You know the non-division one level, but he performed well in his first year at the division one level goes to Southern, Utah But he performed well in his first year at the Division one level goes to southern Utah. He shoots 34% from three so solid three point shooters a six five wing 16.1 points per game 4.7 rebounds per game. And he would just be somebody that he was all whack this this past season like, again, just be kind of a specific role coming off the bench, like do what you do. He was at Wisconsin Parkside before that. He also took a red shirt year

in the 2023 to 2024 season. So I don't know, maybe there's an eligibility thing where they just have to get that approved as well on that and things. You know what, I'm gonna rep my guy, Noah Rigatuso. As we're talking like D2 guys, the guys who transferred up, I don't know. I got to call a lot of Baker games, no riga to so as a division one athlete,

Kansas wants somebody who can come in and just compete and, you know, give them depth and stuff. You're just trying to fill out the roster. I don't know, you could do worse than that. Let's see four or five men to far a good party. I don't know if that's the proper pronunciation. It's fun name to say he's a six foot nine 205 pound forward from Wellington, New Zealand. And he began his career at UMass played 30 games 12 minutes per game. Goes to Georgia Tech for a year where he starts in 15. That's a

weird thing. He goes from UMass where he's playing 12 minutes per game transfers up to Georgia Tech and all of a sudden he's a part time starter playing more minutes per game. Which yeah, the field goal percentage, not good 35% as they starting forward, he obviously likes to play a lot like a three and I don't know how well that would mesh with Bill self but he can shoot three, he finally had his best year this year for Maryland

though, as a junior of Maryland 32 games played 10.3 minutes per game. So like, could this guy come in and just give you depth is like a bench big who can play the three or four, 47% from the field, 37% from three. Again, this is a lower volume because he's playing bench minutes, but you could do worse in terms of just finding, if you're just trying to find a body to lengthen your depth, if something happens,

then maybe that one makes a little bit of sense there. And then if you're looking for true center, it feels like KU is really focusing on the international market to try to get a center here. But there still is one stateside, Tarek Ingraham. He's a 6'9", 255 pound forward who began his career at Wake Forest. It was two years there. Then he goes to Ryder for three years. Now, again, maybe the holdup here is, is he going to get eligible or not? I would think he should because okay, you go to his first year Wake Forest, that's the 20 to 21 season, in which he

plays two games. That's the COVID year, so it shouldn't count. And then a second year Wake Forest, he only plays one game. So you could just have a red shirt there, right? So then you're talking about being a basically third year freshman where he spends three years at Ryder, he should be like a sixth year senior, if you're going by all that stuff, this upcoming season, but at Ryder this past season, 11 points per game, seven rebounds per game, he's got good touch around the basket, good back to the basket

score would give Kansas a little bit of post up scoring off the bench. And it would give them that strength. Whereas Flory's more the athlete, the long center, it would give them a center who has a little bit more girth to him in Ingraham. And I kind of like his game. But again, some of these players, maybe you're just waiting to see, are they going to be eligible or not? Some of them maybe you weren't going to be that interested in, but now that things are drying up, maybe you circle back to I don't know

what the answer will be here for KU. How much money do they have to do it? That's an interesting question. Let's talk about how KU might be using their rev share, how they might split this up with some of the different sports because some interesting stuff from Travis Goff, and Shreyas Lada with the Kansas City Star will discuss that next. Thanks for joining us again on this episode of Locked on Jayhawks

again, you can make our show your first listen every day and thank you to every dayers who already do. Don't forget you can check out Locked on College Football or Locked on College Basketball as well. Okay, so Travis Goff gave him some interesting quotes talking about the rev share which has been passed now in the NCAA house settlement, basically allowing for the schools to pay the players themselves. And basically you have 20 and a half million dollars

the schools have to decide how they want to divvy that out. Now that said, just because you have a max of giving that money, that doesn't mean that every school and doesn't mean that Kansas will be one of those schools. And in fact, there had been some interesting quotes and lead up to this before it actually got passed by guys like Doug Gerrard, the chancellor't Chancellor for KU. I think it was mostly him. I can't remember if Travis golf actually said anything on

it. But it was mostly Gerrard kind of saying like, Yeah, we don't know if we're going to use that full thing. So this was I think it good news for Kansas that this was said, this is in the article. It's from Shreyas Lata, Kansas City star, go check it out. KansasCity.com. And it says in the story, University of Kansas staff members and athletic director Travis Goff say they've spent approximately 15 months

planning for revenue share to take effect. According to Goff, the current plan is to spend the entire allocated 20 and a half million dollar annual budget. So that is a very good news. And it goes in later kind of talking about like, it almost, the way it's kind of phrased doesn't necessarily. They're leaving themselves like a little bit of a cushion. If that makes sense,

like a, it's almost like they're planning to and he didn't say a specific number, but like just to give an example here, that they're planning to use say 1718 19 million of the rev share, and going to leave themselves a little cushion that they can go to the full 20 and a half. But I'd imagine it's, they're only going to get there if it gets them the right player, where it's like, they're not just going to use it just to use it, if that makes sense. And that is a good way of thinking about it, right? Because theoretically, if you don't use, let's say you save 500,000 one year to doing it, theoretically,

does that give you more money to work with the following season if you have to spend more money somewhere else and you're like, man, I don't know if we can get to the 20 and a half this year. And then you're like, okay, but we have that extra million from the year before that we didn't use. And now we can get back to the full 20 and a half this year. So it'll be interesting to see how they work out. But that is good news that that they're planning on, you know, using the full thing because that tells you they're they've figured it out and are in a good area. From that perspective to try to be as competitive as possible

with these other schools. Here's the other key quote, though, from the article. And again, check out the whole thing. And there's a lot of good info in there. But it says, from Travis cough, I'm pretty confident we're going to be in the top 10 per 10 percentile of men's basketball allocation out of the gate. I think the number could be in the four and a half to five and a half million dollar range if you're at the top. So a couple things because this is kind of interesting and how you read this quote. The second part there I think the number could be in the four and a half to five and a half million dollar range if you're at the top. Is that saying that

we're not quite at the top, but those are what the top numbers are expected to be? And then where exactly would Kansas be for that? The other part of this is the syntax here. Saying in the top 10 percentile of men's basketball sounds really good. It's like, oh, we're in the top 10 percentile. When you actually like think about the syntax there, it's not the top 10. It's the top 10 percentile. And the top 10 percentile means you're in the top 10 percent of college basketball. There are 364 teams in division one college basketball. That means

you would only be really in the top 36, 37, which if I told you that Kansas basketball, right, everybody wants them to have more money and yada yada in the off season stuff. If I was like, yeah, they're actually 34th in what they're spending on their roster. I think that would kind of make a lot of people mad. So I understand why Travis Goff framed it that way. And I'm not saying this right now to be like,

oh, they're not spending enough money. I understand why he framed it that way. And I actually do think to defend Travis Goff here, I think this is the right play. This is what I have been saying all along. You should not do this as your Kansas. Kansas basketball has so much interest. Kansas basketball has so much donor support, that if you are picking between giving more money to football, a set base salary, essentially to football, a set base salary essentially to football,

versus where you would give less money to basketball and have to raise more money with NIL, versus having to, you know, have the highest paid rev share roster in basketball and having to raise that same amount of money in NIL for football, like, what do you think is going to be easier to raise, say, $5 million in NIL for? Basketball or football? It's going to be basketball. So it does make sense that you're going to put together a number that is going to be still competitive, right? Top 10th percentile in college basketball.

Maybe it's three or four million, right? Maybe it's somewhere in that range where it's still not that far off from what the top rosters are spending. And you're just going, no, we know we're gonna be competitive with NIL and be able to get that stuff, then we'll make that work. And now we have a set number that we can use for our Olympic sports that can make them, you know, the best on the block.

We have a set number that we can use for football to make sure they're as competitive as they need to be and as competitive as possible, especially in a world where there's conference realignment and you want to have that figured out. I think it's a very smart play, actually, by Travis Goff to kind of work it that way. The big question is, how do you like Travis Goff almost has to be like, I don't know, therapist, like marriage counselor type of thing here now

with like all these coaches to be like, you know, this is why you're getting this and this explains this and like, do you just end up with a room full of unhappy coaches where, you know, this coach is like, man, I can't believe that coach is getting this, I should be getting half that money, or something like that, right? You almost have to find the right coaches that are not going to think that way. Like, this bill self view it the same way that I'm viewing it. We're like,

yeah, I think that's smart, because they'll be able to make the NIL money and stuff like that. Just bill self view it in a different way where he's kind of mad about it. Right. I'm not saying that's the case. Or like this Lance Leipold be like, yeah, I'm even mad that you're getting that much. You know what I mean? And again, I'm not saying that those are the cases. I'm just saying like, you do have to play like, not anger management, because I don't think it's like angry. But like, again, like marriage counselor, if you are

Travis Goffier. So I did find that very interesting. And it seems like Kansas is in a good place, the fact that they are gonna be planning that they can spend all of that 20 and a half. And maybe that's part of it too, like the idea of that there's the cushion. Well, they would have used some of that cushion

if Darian Williams is coming aboard. But now that maybe they might be looking in other directions to try to fill out the roster, you know, maybe they don't need to fill out that cushion. And maybe that's part of, you know, figuring this whole thing out. If you're Kansas and Bill South and Lance Leipold and on and on down the Kansas athletic department. Alright, that'll do it for this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks.

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