Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Darrion Williams Now? Tyran Stokes Later? Exploring Possibilities for Bill Self & Kansas Jayhawks

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

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KU is in the thick of it in the Darien Williams chase. Can they get the player I named the number one player available in the transfer portal? And what does it all mean with Williams and Tyrant Stokes, the number one recruit in 2026? You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team, every day. What is going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked On Jayhawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day,

whether you're listening on YouTube or anywhere, you'll get your podcast. And thank you to every dayers catching each and every episode of the show, or if you're a first timer and making it your first listen for the first time on today's episode of Lockdown Jhawks, we're discussing Darian Williams once again, the transfer from Texas Tech, who I think is an absolute

stud and some I guess recent heat recent news about KU making a possible push at Darian Williams, what it all means along with Tyron Stokes, and if they're intertwined, if they're related at all. And then we'll finish up with a little bit of latest news as the transfer portal gets close to coming to close. Also some other stuff with other news with KU volleyball and some Sharon Loquiti stuff. Today's episode of the show is brought to you by Game Time. And you can get your tickets to all sorts of events like summer baseball with Game

Time, download the Game Time app, create an account, and redeem code locked on college for $20 off your first purchase with Game Time. Okay, so there was a rumor that came out earlier today, I guess you're listening to this on Tuesday yesterday. But that came out on Monday from Trilly Donovan that was kind of making its way around, I guess, KU social media among KU fans, among anybody who wanted to talk about this thing,

the message boards, whatever, about Kansas is making a push for Darianne Williams. And to what extent that exactly means, we don't entirely know, right? Does it mean they're not gonna be outbid? Does it mean that they're just trying to make it happen? Does it mean they're trying to get a visit? Who entirely knows what that means?

But that does seem to be a good sign for a guy that at one point in time I have dubbed. And I don't know, it'd be interesting if I were to re-rank everything. I think he'd still be number one at this point for me among portal targets, so to speak, and guys that I think would make sense for KU to go after, right?

You're looking at somebody who can. If you're trying to find, you know, another key player, you want somebody who's good at shooting. OK, worth. They are in Williams checks that box. You would like to have another wing. Daring Williams can can play the three on offense. You play the four on defense. Right.

He's somebody who's hit clutch buckets. He's somebody who passes the ball well, so you don't have to worry about him. Like, oh, is he going to come in and the ball is just going to stick in his hand and it's not going to find its way to Daron Peterson? No, you don't have to worry about him like, oh, is he going to come in and the ball's just going to stick in his hand? And it's not going to find its way to Darren Peterson? No, you don't have to worry about that with Darren Williams. And everywhere he's been, he's been part of a winning team. He went to the NCAA tournament with Nevada. He went to the NCAA tournament twice with Tech,

including making it to the Elite Eight this season. And honestly, they should have beat Florida, the team that won the national title, right? So yes, this is very big news. And there was some previous smoke for Williams with like BYU was one of the schools that I think was publicly there. There were some other schools that maybe were more privately discussed here. But BYU was kind of the big one that came out.

And I'm sure part of the reason that came out was because, you know, if you're meeting with a lot of these schools, if you're Darien Williams, if you're the agent, the schools that make sense to leak out are the schools like Kansas and Kentucky and Carolina and whatever, you know, the normal schools, but also BYU is one of those schools you want to leak out if you're the agent and the player because BYU is sitting on kind of a money landmine, it seems right now where they're able to, you know, pay top dollar for a lot of these really good players. So if you're an agent and you have interest from BYU,

why would you not release that? Because then that's going to signal to everybody else who's interested in them. You better come ready with the money. Right. And so I think in it in itself, like when you see that, it kind of makes you believe that if Kansas is going to land him, they're going to need a big check to be able to do so. Right. But beyond the the actual like possible impact that Williams could bring of which, as I kind of just mentioned, like I think you would bring a hugely

positive impact on to the kids basketball team. And if you want more on why I think that go check out the deep dive on Darien Williams, which we did, I don't know, a week ago, something like that you're unlocked on Jay Hawks. And if you're never there, and you already caught it, thank you to you for doing that. But I find it super interesting that this Darian Williams, I guess, news, this rumor, this whatever you want to call it, comes out on the heels of the Tyrant Stokes visit, right?

And there's a couple different ways that you can look at this here. Could this be a play by Bill Self and Kansas to try and gain a bit of leverage with Tyron Stokes? Now, I don't know, leverage might be too strong of a word here because I don't know that you can really get leverage in this case. Like, you're trying to await on the decision from, you know, a teenager, not kind of the other way around.

Like, yeah, you know, he can, I don't know, it's like he's the number one prospect in the country, right? Like it is his decision. This isn't the NBA where you get an opportunity to draft number one in the drafts or something like that, right? Or maybe the more proper way to put it is like, could this be incentive to come out to try to speed up a possible decision from Tyron Stokes? I'll be honest, I don't think that's what this is. So this story just came out from Shreyas Lada, Ken Siddshard, who we had him on the other day, too. So thank you, every day

has caught that one as well. And here's the big tweet. Here's the quote from the tweet from Trey. It says, as for the rumors about Tyronn Stokes reclassifying to the class of 2025, and this is in Trey's story, which again, you can check out KansasCity.com and the Kansas City Star. That's never been on the table. Kiera Stokes said, I believe that, Mom, he's not even NCAA eligible because it's never what he wanted to do. So he has to finish his senior year. Now, we keep hearing this from like different people that like he's not going to be able to reclassify. And I've kind of said before, like, okay, could that just be speaking of

leverage, a leverage play by his camp to be like, hey, you know, we're not gonna reclassify. But then it's like, well, what if we pay an extra million dollars and then I'll then when you reclassify and that's like, oh, well, come to think of it, yes, we can make that work. But now the fact that it keeps coming out more and more and more, and now you have it from like the mom, I don't know, I'm starting to actually kind of buy into that. No, he is not going to reclassify. And I brought up on one of the recent episodes, I felt like this kind of happened with Darius Akoff last year, not to this extreme, and Akoff wasn't the level of recruits Stokes is, but it was

like last offseason, it was, oh, could he reclassify and you'll play one of your combo guards and yada yada. He ended up not reclassifying. And then he ended up picking Arkansas, though. I do think a little of that was, you know, Kansas going more for Darren Peterson, which was obviously, I think the right move for Kansas. But anyway, I don't necessarily know that that would be the case, too,

because when you look at where this rumor is coming out from, it's coming out from Trilley Donovan, who is very plugged into the college basketball world. But if Kansas was trying to get a message out there to Tyronn Stokes, I don't think it would be coming from Trilley Donovan in a private discord. I think it would be coming out from, I don't know, like a big, uh, like a John Rothstein, for instance, or, you know, one of these, I don't know, maybe even like a Joe Tipton, where it would be like kind of coming from KU. If that kind of makes sense, like, well, it's really, it feels like if the purpose is KU trying to leak data to try to sway something in their direction, that wouldn't be the avenue. They go to Jeff Goodman, something like that. You know what I mean? And so the fact that it's coming out there,

I believe this to be just that rumors about because Kansas wants Darian Williams. And that's kind of how I view this year. And so that's interesting. But is it still tied in with the Tyron Stokes thing? This is where I think it becomes interesting because could this be a reaction by Bill Self and KU to the Stokes visit and not just the visit, but talking with him meeting with him, you know, all that sort of stuff. Either in knowing that, okay, if he does reclassify, which again, that seems like a long shot at this point, that it might just take a long time, like he might be

going on other visits, it might what if it takes him to do summer school, to be able to knock out that opportunity to be able to join early, right? That it might take the process a long time, or that possibly he's leaning in other schools direction and Kansas doesn't think they're going to be able to land him or I think this is the most person pertinent one out of all of them. Since he still is in the class of 2026. And you see that quote from his mom, that he is going to stay in the class of 2026. And you see that quote from his mom that he is going to stay in the class of 2026.

And therefore Kansas has basically an extra chunk of change lying around for the 2025 roster, right? Like imagine before this visit happened, Bill Self calls up one or two of his big money donors and he goes, hey, we got an opportunity to possibly land this kid. We're gonna try to get them to reclassify, but we're gonna need the funds to be able to do it.

And we're visiting with him this weekend. I need to prepare a package of what we can offer him. What can you do? And whatever that number ends up being, I'm just going to throw out a number because, you know, we know AJ DeBato went for like, what, four or five million. Let's just say, again, number one, recruiting the country for twenty-two or six. Let's say it's four or five million. Right. And he comes up with that four or five million.

Okay. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that the donors are going to be like, yeah, okay. Well, we're just giving you the four or five million, do with it whatever you want. No, like rich people stay rich for a reason and they want to use their money on things they want to use their money on, right?

And so you could see it being a situation though, where now Bill Self at the very least knows he has access to that fund. And so he talks to Tyron Stokes, again, this all hypothetical, and they do figure out, okay, well, we are interested and we still would love to have you, but it sounds like you are going to be more 2026. But now Bill Self knows, hey, I do possibly have access to that money, but I'm going to have to convince those big money donors. And then he fires up the Darian Williams deep dive, unlocked on J-Ox, and he sends it to those big money donors and he says, look, you got, I'm obviously joking. That's obviously not what happened. But he convinces those big money donors, hey, listen, if you're willing to spend that much, we can bring in this Darian Williams get.

And we're not going to be able to get Stokes this year. This is our best option for this year, since Stokes would not be an option there. And I think there could be something interesting there that then once at that point, if you are the big money donor and you've basically already, even though you haven't given the money, you have mentally in your head prepared yourself that you could be giving the money, maybe it makes it easier to say yes. Whereas before maybe you're like, ah, I'll give two or three million for Darian Williams. And now you're kind of sitting there and you've talked yourself into it more and you talked yourself into the Stokes thing happening, but then he's not going to reclass maybe you're like, ah, you know, I'll give two or three million for Darien Williams. And now you're kind of sitting there. You've talked yourself into it more. And you talked

yourself into the Stokes thing happening, but then he's not going to reclass. And you're like, well, I still want a good player. And you know what, this Darien Williams guy, he is coming around on me. And you know what, let's let's kind of spend that money. So I think it brings up an interesting possibility of, you know, hypothetically, could Kansas land Darien Williams for this year, and then get Kyron Stokes for next season and kind of have your cake and eat it too?

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and higher future potential than Williams, you know, Williams is a more sure thing. He was an all big 12 player this past season in the conference that you play in, you know what you're getting a little bit more. Although I guess we say that you thought you knew what you were getting from like AJ Storr and Ryland Griffin too, and that didn't always work that way.

But point being, it's it's the idea that you could then basically do what you're doing now and do it again next year. Right. The same way you're building around Darren Peterson next year, you should build it around Tyron Stokes and you still get a Darian Williams this year. And then hypothetically, what if you get the Darian Williams version and next year's offseason to pair with Tyron Stokes? You know what I mean? There is some kind of beauty in that, and it allows you kind of that perfect mix of being able to, I don't know, like try to hit a home run in the offseason and the present, while also having that future opportunity in front of

you. Because at the end of the day, it does feel like you are, I don't know, you're almost playing like, even though the season hasn't even started, we're so far away from the season even beginning, you're almost playing already on borrowed time. Because you know that you're realistically only gonna have one year with Darren Peterson. And so like, knowing that in the back of your head,

you're trying to take advantage of that in every way that you possibly could. Well, if you get Stokes for the next year team, even though they're different players and you don't know how each one would impact things in their own different way, it kind of extends that window of having like that premier possible top five pick at an NBA draft to back to back seasons, which would be really cool for KU. It also would give kids the opportunity to get back to back number one recruits for I believe the first time in the recruiting era. They've had number one recruits, but I don't think they've done it in back to back seasons, which is obviously very difficult to do.

Right. And so you would think if you have the money to bring on Tyronn Stokes this year, which would then be deferred to paying Darianne Williams this year, that you would just be able to say, okay, and then we'll just reload it next year, because it'd probably be difficult to afford both Darian Williams and Tyronn Stokes on the same team. I don't think that would happen to be clear. But now you can kind of spread that out and be like, okay, well, you know, I'm paying this much for this year's roster

and then I'm paying the same amount next year and you're able to kind of slot that in and make it work, right? Would that kind of be the ideal outcome? I do think that is very interesting. I will say if we move to the hypothetical world where if Tyron Stokes counter to everything that's been out there, counter to what his mom said

that we mentioned earlier in the episode, if he was actually open to or able to, you know, reclassify to 2025. And again, that seems like a very far long shot at this point in time. If that were to be the case, and you did have to pick between one or the other, right? Again, sure.

Hypothetical world, Jeff Bezos is like, you know what? I really want to see Darren Peterson play Tyron Stokes in Daring and Williams. And he goes, I'm going to pay Tyron Stokes 10 million to reclassify, and I will buy him the best tutor in the world to get all the summer classes done he needs to do. And I'll pay 10 million for Darian Williams.

And we're just going to have fun. And I'm just going to ask for you to have an Amazon patch on the Kansas logo, you know? In that hypothetical world, sure. But like realistically, you only land one of the two. And again, Stokes probably, to me, at this point I'm reading it as he's staying in 2026, and your best shot is just get Darian Williams now.

But in that hypothetical world where you did have the option of Stokes decides to reclassify, and you basically have to say, we only have enough funds to bring in one of the two. Williams or Stokes, I do think you take Stokes at that point in time, even knowing that Darianne Williams is the, you know, proven collegiate player that he has shown he can do it on the big stage, right? He hits the game kind of shot that sends it to overtime against Arkansas

on the Sweet 16, right? That he has produced both times that he's played against Kansas in his career, in like very real ways that He wound up on the all big 12 first team now, you know, it's a ten player team I don't know if he would have been on the five team Maybe maybe not but regardless like one of the ten best players in the big 12 this season And if you account for the players leaving after that like that would make him one of the I guess it's hard because teams are Bringing in really good transfers to but like one being one of the ten best players in the big leaving after that, like that would make him one of the, I guess it's hard because teams are bringing in

really good transfers too. But like, one being one of the 10 best players in the Big 12 this season, right? It's hard to say don't take the sure thing kind of in front of you. It's like the family guy, the box episode. So, you know, Tyronn Stokes could be anything. He could be all Big 12 first team, you know?

It's like Darren Williams was that. But I think you take it because the ceiling of having a guy, if Tyronn Stokes hits, is just at a different level than what you would kind of get there. And the idea would be, like, honestly, if you gave me the option, if I had the ability to somehow make this happen, you can have Darian Williams now and Tyron Stokes in 2026, or you can have Tyron Stokes now and TBD player in 2026. I think I would still take Stokes in that situation. Again, I'm as high on Darian Williams as anybody, right?

He's my number one transfer player available for Kansas at this point in time. But the reason why is sometimes we view this as like, wait, so you would take Darian Williams in 2025 and Tyron Stokes in 2026 over just Tyron Stokes in 2025? No, that's not what I'm saying. Because theoretically in 2026 over just Tyron Sokes in 2025? No that's not what I'm saying, because theoretically in 2026 you're going to have other money, you're going to have other scholarships, other availability to go out and get that

year's version of Adarian Williams. To where then it just becomes, oh, now you're maximizing your opportunity to play around Darren Peterson with another guy who's another number one recruit in Tyron Sokes. So that's why in that hypothetical I would take that, is that hypothetical even available? Doesn't seem like it at this point in time. So roundabout way with all of this to say, maybe the lesson here is that Tyron Stokes is indeed saying in 2026, they saw what everybody's saying based on the visit. And maybe that's what led to a charge from Kansas to say, hey, you know, maybe they were interested in Darian Williams. Maybe they offered him a certain number, maybe, you know, y they were interested in Darien Williams, maybe they offered him a certain

number, maybe, you know, yada yada yada. And then when Stokes said, No, I'm firmly on the visit, maybe he said, No, I'm for sure staying in 2026. Kansas said, Okay, we're ready to add, you know, another digit onto this number that we're offering Darien Williams, because he becomes our best available option at this point in time. But you can't go wrong with either guy. And, you know, I love me some Darianne Williams, and we'll see if he ends up in a KU

uniform. We'll break that down if anything happens right here on locked on Jayhawks. All right, some news, the portals closing soon. Also, the weird flurry of five year guys entering the portal an interesting name that Kansas had a visit on has reentered the portal. We'll break all that down and more coming up next. Visit on has re-entered the portal. We'll break all that down and more coming up next. This episode of the show is brought to you by PrizePix.

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football your second listen every day. So the transfer portal closes on April 22nd for basketball year. I don't know if it opens back up at one point, like during the summer, similar to how, you know, football does during the spring at one point. But regardless, it's not the players have to have committed by then. It's just the players have to have entered by then. So you see kind of a late flurry with different players entering the portal and going off. So that'll certainly be interesting, but it also will put a close on, you know,

waiting for are there gonna be more, you know, players enter in at this point in time? Again, I don't know if there's a later one that they can enter again later in the year, but yeah, there's that. Also this came from John Rothstein earlier today. NCAA members will not discuss whether or not players will see five years of eligibility moving forward via legislation until after a final decision on the house settlement has been made.

So it sounds like they are going to discuss it, but they have to figure that stuff out first, which puts a lot of these guys who would be five year players in limbo for a long time. And then it's like, okay, like hypothetically, like Zeke Mayo, like theoretically, Zeke Mayo would have been a fun fit next to Darren Peterson. He would have provided a lot of scoring and offense, right? But it's like if they don't pass a rule on you can be a fifth year player until you know, September or like the third week of August and schools already started like it's a little harder to get those players, especially because a lot of them

are going to be at that point. Like, okay, well, I've moved on. I've signed with this G League team or I've signed with this Euro League team or whatever it is. So that'll be kind of interesting though. And there was a weird flurry of five-year guys. There already have been a bunch of guys who have entered the portal over this, I don't know, whatever like last week's month, whatever, that have been guys who have already exhausted all their eligibility, but they're just entering just in case, like Eddie Lampkin entered, for instance, where it's like, yeah, you had the COVID year and then you played four full years.

Like you were out of eligibility, but if they give that extra year, then you add an extra year of eligibility. And I think there's even a suit going on where somebody is trying to sue the NCAA and one of the states or something to have just like unlimited eligibility, which that would be kind of a mess with all of this. I think Shaq Moore entered, although I think he exited the portal quickly after with with Kansas and stuff. So it's a mess right now, obviously.

Little KU volleyball news, they released their schedule with the Big 12 schedule and everything on today and they've got some fun non con matchups. I mean, Penn State obviously sticks out exhibition game against Nebraska obviously sticks out but Big 12 conference will be fun as well. But yeah, here's one of the key highlights. They're gonna be playing Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse this season. And so I think the last time they would have played now and fieldhouse. It would have been when they were hosting the they used to when they hosted they would host some of these games in the NCAA or in Allen Fieldhouse in the NCAA tournament.

And there's one of the years they made the Sweet 16. I think the beat, which stopped staying in Creighton. I forget which was first round, which was second round a little over a decade ago. And then I think lost to Washington in the Sweet 16 that year. And that was in Allen Fieldhouse. But then after that, they started doing them at home. They wanted the more friendly confine environments. They had one year where they had to go to Topeka

because of a conflicting men's basketball game. But that'll be really cool because there was back in the day and there's a photo somewhere that I haven't been able to find like on the internet. Send it to me if you have it. There's a photo of one year, I think it was Kansas, Missouri, played volleyball during late night in the fog. And it was like the, I don't know if it was the prelude or what, because at that point it was probably still midnight madness. So maybe it was just at a normal time. And so you had all these people there for late night. And so it was a full sold out Island Field House for Keating Volleyball. That would be so sweet if they could do that or even kind of get close to that. And we'll see what goes there. And then the last bit of news here, Sharon Lokiti, who was a former national champion

in long distance running for KU Track and Field, who always has, you know, stud athletes there. She won the Boston Marathon. So that was really cool to see. And Jayhawk Pride representing there out in Boston. That's all for this episode of Locked on Jayhawk. You can find our show anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page, back at you with more transfer portal talk on tomorrow's episode of LOJ.