Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Will Kansas Basketball Fill All 3 Remaining Spots??? Plus Jayhawks' Baseball Extends Dan Fitzgerald
Episode Date: June 11, 2025Kansas Jayhawks Basketball faces recruiting hurdles as international player eligibility concerns mount. Will KU's basketball roster be complete for the upcoming season or will they not be able to fill... all three remaining scholarship spots on the team? Host Derek Johnson analyzes the Jayhawks' limited options in the transfer portal and potential visa complications for international recruits. Where could they turn in the transfer portal or high school ranks?The discussion shifts to KU Baseball's recent success, highlighted by coach Dan Fitzgerald's contract extension and program investments. Texas Tech's game-changing $55 million athlete payment plan takes center stage, potentially reshaping Big 12 athletics.Tune in for expert insights on how these developments could impact Kansas Jayhawks' competitiveness across multiple sports.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)
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On today's Locked on Jayhawks, Kansas is running out of options.
We're going to dive into what's even left out there.
And if the international market is going to be even more of a scarier place
to try to get players eligible than we even thought just even 24 hours ago.
Plus, Dan Fitzgerald has been extended for KU baseball big time news
in the KU Athletic Department.
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what options are even still available at KU. What if KU can't get anyone eligible from overseas?
We touched on this a little bit on yesterday's episode. Thank you to every dayers already
catching that. But we're going to get even into because there's even some more talk about this. We're also
going to talk about Dan Fitzgerald, the KU baseball
manager head coach, who's been extended by KU baseball live.
This is such big news for the KU baseball and KU athletic
department. And then also a little big 12 talk to finish up
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your first purchase with Game Time. So obviously for KU as they continue to scour, you know,
adding more players, they've three scholarships still open at this point in time. We're in
basically the middle of June at this point in time and they've still three scholarships open.
It's a very scary place to be.
It's an even scarier place when you consider
that the most impactful players that are available
are international players.
And the reason that is scary is a couple of reasons.
One, can you get these players eligible?
The other part of it is, you know,
they've brought in a good international player here and there.
You think of Sveemakailuk and Johnny Furphy, right?
There've been other players,
but it's not like a school like Gonzaga or Arizona
that is like, or I guess Illinois of late,
that is like feasting on this,
that has consistently shown those ties,
especially in Europe specifically, right?
To where it's just like one of those things
where it's felt like this off season,
the staff has almost been a little bit behind where it's like,
can you catch up with all this with the overseas stuff?
And so it's a difficult place to be in.
And we kind of talked to again, if you're an everydayer,
you already got this talking about Bryce Dessert situation and, you know, for KU,
like dealing with the student visa process, can you get these players
even eligible coming over?
What if you get a player to commit and then it takes more than a you know, a your school year
starts in a couple months here. But they haven't, you know,
resumed the student visa process, or even if they have
their show backlog, that they haven't gotten to, you know,
clearing a player making them eligible. And then you basically
end up spending all your time, your money, your projected NIL
budget that would have gone somewhere that you could have used somewhere else
auto player that doesn't end up on campus and being able to
play for the team. So some of you talked a little bit about
yesterday. And now there's this I guess quote from Charlie Baker
today. This was tweeted out by Amanda Christofovich or
Christovich, who is a sports business supporter called sports
for Oh, gosh, I don't know what at FOS is on social media. Anyway, front office sports,
there we go. Okay, so basically sports business. Anyway, NCAA
President Charlie Baker tells reporters that there are
concerns from schools that international athletes could be
violating their student visas, if they get paid through rev
share. The NCAA is working on navigating the issue, but no
answers yet.
Okay, so a couple of things to that,
because this becomes very pertinent to KU's situation,
who is recruiting international players.
And if KU can't get international players eligible,
their player pool shrinks even more.
And they're basically the ability to add an impact player.
At that point, if you said you can't add
an international player, they don't have that opportunity.
I'll tell you why here in a second.
But there's a couple ways to look at this.
The NCAA is working on navigating that issue.
No answer yet.
Okay, so that's the good news.
They're working on it, right?
Maybe it will get figured out by the start of the season.
Here's the bad news.
Have we ever known the NCAA to just like, oh, hey, they just started
working on this thing.
It's going to be done really soon.
Like they're going to get it done soon and they're going to get going to be done really soon. Like, they're going to get it done soon,
and they're going to get it done with a really good resolution.
Or like, they're going to get it done in the next week,
and it's going to be perfect.
I don't remember a time where that's been the case with the NCAA.
It's both those things.
It's like a lot of times at the NCAA, it's like, yeah, why'd they do that?
And then on top of it, a lot of times at the NCAA, it's like, wow,
that took way longer than it should have.
Just think of the KU case in the NCAA IRP situation with the Sylvia DeSoto stuff, right?
Think how long that took. Now, not every situation is that. But point being, this stuff takes a long time.
I find it hard to believe that the NCAA is going to have that figured out.
Now, the part about that the athletes could be violating their student visas if they get paid through rev share. Maybe the
workaround to that is just saying, hey, they just can't get
paid from rev share. Or like if you're the school, you just plan
to say, hey, we're not going to pay them with rev share. Because
if we are worried, that's going to make them ineligible, we
just won't do it. And the way that we're going to pay them is
through NIL. The sticky part of that situation is because of
again, the NC, this is perfect
example, the NCAA making kind of a rule of law, whatever you want
to say, that's kind of just silly and dumb. The player cannot
be paid NIL while they're like in the United States. So how
teams have worked that around in the past, like Oscar Sheaway,
with Kentucky, when he was there was getting a ton of NIL money,
but he wasn't from America, I forget if he was from Bahamas or
where he was from specifically. But basically, what they did is
over the summer, they went and they had some sort of event
where he was able to get his NIL money when he was you know,
back home where that was legal. And that's something that KU
would have had to do with like Johnny Furphy, for instance, if
he would have came back, like, he would have been able to get
his NIL in the States. They would have just done something
for him to get it while he was in Australia. Like there are work rounds make happen. But if you're
bringing on a player this late, do you have the planning? Do you have the time to be able to put
that together? So that throws another wrench into all of this. So I don't know how that's going to
work. That could have obviously a huge impact on not just Kansas, but on a lot of these other teams
across the country
who have brought in or gotten commits
from international players.
And what happens if we're halfway through the year
and those international players are like,
hey, I haven't gotten any money, I'm going back home.
You know what I mean?
Or they're just like, I'm never gonna make it there
because it turns out that I'm not gonna be able
to get the money.
So if you're Kansas specifically, like,
what would you even do?
Like, what would the even available options be left
at this point in time for KU, right? If you can't go overseas, and I still think there is an element, like, what would you even do? Like, what would the even available options be left at this point in time for KU, right?
If you can't go overseas,
and I still think there is an element of like,
do you just say screw it
and risk the international thing anyway?
I think Kansas is kind of at a situation right now
based on how the off season has gone,
that they do have to kind of say screw it
and try to risk for it anyway.
That's why I am almost of the opinion that like,
I just try to, like, if you're worried about not being able
to get Bryce dessert eligible by the time
the start of the season, I would say, screw it.
We're making that plan anyway,
because I just don't know like how viable
are the rest of these situations anyway.
So maybe that's what you go into,
but that's one option, right?
Just say screw it and move forward with that being an idea.
Who's even available in the transfer portal?
If we go over to, which, you know, this is just one site and don't take these as gospel,
because, you know, a lot of times I think transfer portal rankings aren't going to be solely indicative.
A lot of times the transfer portal stuff ends up being more about,
okay, how did the player fit at his new stop than anything?
And we've seen like AJ Storr and Ryylan Griffin and some of these guys be ranked super high
in the transfer portal rankings,
not have as big of an impact for KU
as players who have transferred to other schools
who maybe were under the radar
and ended up being like all conference level players, right?
So take them with a grain of salt,
but at least it gives us a good reference point
and a good starting point.
I think 24-7 does a good job.
So if we look at the top 200 available players,
all positions in the transfer portal,
still available per 24 seven sports rankings,
there's only one player available
at any position in the top 200.
So if you're talking about impact players,
that would kind of qualify there.
And even then it's not somebody
who's in like the top 100, right?
And that would be Ali Diba.
I've talked a little bit about Ali Diba in the past. I don't know why he hasn't signed with the school already.
Like the fact that it hasn't happened already
kind of makes me think like, is there something going on?
Is there an eligibility thing?
Like what's going on here?
So he started his career at Chicago State.
Then he played three years or two years at Abilene Christian.
Then one year this past season at Southern Illinois.
But the one year he played at Chicago State,
he only played five games.
I would imagine he would be able to get
like a medical red shirt or whatever for that season, right?
To where he could still have one more year of play.
Maybe that's what the holdup is.
Maybe he's trying to get that extra year of eligibility
and the NCAA is just taking too long to clear him.
And then once he gets cleared into work,
I don't know if that's the reason.
He's also originally from Sweden.
So does this go back in line
with some of the international stuff?
Is that part of the reasoning?
But like he's a good player.
17.2 points per game, 4.8 rebounds per game, two assists per game on 49% from the field,
33.7% from three, so almost 34 from three, 66 at the foul line on over four attempts
per game.
So he gets the foul line a good amount.
Year before that at Abilene Christian, 15.5 points per game, four and a half rebounds
on 48% from the field, 35% from three and 73% at the foul line.
Six-five wing, I would think he would be somebody who comes in and like, I don't know that I would
project him to be a starter. I don't think it would be crazy to me if he did, but like, that he could
come in and I think at the very least have a role as a bench wing for KU. Like, he would be somebody
that I'd be interested in. But again, what else is going on there to the reason that he's not
committed? The other guy that you're looking at in the portal if you expand out to the top
250 would be Keonte Jones played at Cal State Northridge 6 foot 6 senior 13.1 points 9 rebounds 4 sys per game
51% of the field doesn't really shoot a ton of threes shot him well when he shot him but only one attempt per game
But he was previously committed then D committed to school. He's been at a couple junior colleges
He's been in college five years.
But if the JUCO stuff doesn't count, he has the COVID year.
Can he get another year eligible?
I don't know how that works.
And again, he already was committed to school.
He's been out there for a while.
There hasn't been any seemingly contact with KU.
So why is that to this point?
Is there something else kind of going on there
of the reason why they wouldn't want it?
So they can do that, right?
You could end up in a situation
where you try to get a high school reclass.
We've talked a little on Cole Rosario,
who I think just finished up like an Oregon visit.
He scheduled for his Kansas visit in a week,
but he scheduled for a lot of other visits after that.
So like, I don't know,
you are really running out of options here.
I'm running out of names to get to.
We'll continue to do deep dives on players if we can,
especially internationally,
but that just might not really be as much on the table
as we might've hoped or might've thought based on some of this stuff that's kind of coming out.
And that is a scary world to live in that Kansas in a situation they still need three scholarship players.
I'm just kind of wondering if they're going to go into the season with 13 scholarship players, right?
Do you end up just filling two of the three final scholarship spots?
You end up only filling one of the final three scholarship spots, right?
Like what is going to happen for KU at this point in time? Because this is a very scary place to be for Kansas
where it just feels like they can't check those boxes.
And for a while I was confident they would fill those spots.
I don't know how confident I am
in them being able to do that anymore.
So we'll talk plenty more KU basketball,
but I like KU baseball.
Big off season news is they extend Dan Fitzgerald.
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Okay, so some big news for KU baseball.
Can you baseball just had one of the best seasons in program history.
It was a really good season overall. Unfortunately, the way
it finished in the tournament unable to get a tournament win,
but like that doesn't take away from the fact that it was a
great, great season for the KU baseball team. They nearly won
the big 12. They won a ton of games over 40 wins, had a ton of
fun comeback wins. They're a fun team to watch with as many
home runs as they were hitting. Had some really stud players that in future years
you're gonna see being go, you know, going in MLB drafts
and that's gonna be really cool to watch and Chronicle.
Can some of those players make it up so that we have,
you know, more than like Ryan Zephyr John and in the MLB,
who knows maybe like Maui Ahuna who, you know,
he obviously transferred after his time at KU.
Maybe he'll make it up eventually.
But nonetheless, 42
wins, it was announced today, I guess, on Tuesday, the Travis
golf has signed Dan Fitzgerald to a six year contract extension
with the Jaygox, obviously very big news. And he was, you know,
I don't want to say like rumored to be going there, because that
would be incorrect. But he was rumored to be somebody that
Mississippi State when they had because that would be incorrect. But he was rumored to be somebody that Mississippi State when they
had the opening would be interested in, right. And then
when they hired the Virginia coach, there was talk that
Virginia might be interested in Dan Fitzgerald as well. Now, how
much of that, you know, I don't know, like, like, where did that
stuff line up? Was there any interest the other way? I don't
know, we might not never ever know. But this is the best news possible
that he gets a six-year contract extension.
I would imagine, I don't see the money
on this release from KU.
I'd imagine that'll get released at some point soon.
It'll be a sizable pay increase for Dan Fichold,
and very deserved one at that.
Right, this is KU's first tournament appearance since 2014.
It was program records for Big 12 wins.
It was program records for road wins,
come from behind wins, home runs.
And it seems like they're just getting started.
Just think about it.
They have been better each and every season.
Even last year when they didn't make the NCAA tournament,
they were kind of a tournament bubble team.
And so if you're getting to a point for KU
where you're making the tournament
and the year's where you're not,
you're still getting close to the tournament,
that's a great place for this program to be
from where it's been kind of in the past.
And Dan Fitzgerald from every interaction I've either had,
which has been limited interactions,
but the small interactions that I have had
were the ones that I've heard from other people,
like tremendous dude, tremendous guy, very big family man.
Like he's just a
guy you want to have around the program, right? And he's a great
recruiter, what he's doing with it's almost like a moneyball
approach. We're like, Oh, everybody's spending all this
money on the transfer portal, yada, yada, like, we're gonna go
into Juco rankings, because now that's being under recruited,
because people are looking into this. And we can end up with a
Brady Ballinger who's being under recruited when Juco
baseball is actually like a very good level of baseball.
And you see guys get drafted out of the junior college level into the MLB all the time.
So that's really cool.
It also says in this article, the release from KU, the investment in the coaching
staff for KU baseball is part of a broader investment in the sport of baseball at Kansas.
An increase in scholarships, plans to implement revenue sharing for
student athletes in the program,
and the prioritization of facility
investment present an opportunity
for kids baseball to be a leader
in the Big 12 and nationally.
And it talks about that, you know,
prior to the season,
Hogan ballpark saw several upgrades,
new field surface.
They're continuing to evaluate and
analyze future facility investments
in Hogan Park.
I don't know what those would be. I don't know if that's, you know, upgrading the stands, making things bigger. They're continuing to evaluate and analyze future facility investments in Hoagland Park.
I don't know what those would be.
I don't know if that's upgrading the stands, making things bigger.
I don't know if it's moving out to Rockchuck Park or what.
Those are going to need some sort of renovations or improvements or redo of the stadium at
some point.
I do think that's probably difficult.
Maybe if it's minor renovations, those are things you can do right now.
As far as the major stuff, like if you did get a new stadium at Rock Truck Park,
I would imagine that stuff would have to have an after
the football stadium is put together.
But that's something that obviously has to be on the agenda
and has to be something that continues to, you know,
go to Dan Fitzgerald to be like, hey, trust me,
we are going to do this.
We just got to get this thing wrapped up
and then we'll get there
so that he can see the shared vision of like,
yes, there is going to be investment in baseball. Not that there has been, but like that big
level of investment that will be needed once, you know, the football stadium is done and
everything like that. The other big piece though, there was that part on the revenue
sharing, right? Because we have no idea how Kansas plans to split this stuff up, right?
I talked about on a previous episode, do you give a majority of it to football? Do you
give some to the Olympic sports where like, you know, you give some to volleyball
and soccer and stuff like that, where a little can maybe go a long way in some of those sports?
Like I'd imagine a lot of those sports at other schools, it might be as simple as like, hey,
if you can get your donors, like the guys who are really interested in your sport,
interested in donating NIL, you can use that. But like from a rev share standpoint, we're giving it all to football.
I don't know if Kansas is going to do that or if they're going to divvy out at least a little bit there.
Obviously, it's a unique situation at Kansas with basketball being, you know,
you're a basketball school. That's what you're known for. Right.
So do you give more to rev share in basketball than other schools would?
Or does it go the other way?
Does the fact that you have so much donor and fan interest in basketball than other schools would? Or does it go the other way? Does the fact that you have so much donor and fan interest in basketball allow you to give more of the money
to football and baseball and softball and cross country and all these different sports
to where then you can basically say, hey, NIL is going to fund the KU basketball roster? Or is that
just no longer a doable thing, right? If this clearing house situation comes in
and they do deny certain NIL offerings,
does that put Kansas in a bad spot?
Or does it actually give Kansas
even more opportunity to do that?
Because if the NIL payments that you're allowed to give
to a player are now basically being limited,
being watered down by the clearing house,
then maybe you can make it work on a tighter budget
with just using NIL and basketball. So it'll be interesting to see how they kind of divvy that stuff out, right?
There's a lot of different theories and ideas of which way you could go, but it is interesting
they would do that for baseball. Do you think it's not a situation where you need to, you know,
for rev share, give 10 of the 20 million to baseball? No. Like I said, like a smaller
amount of money in baseball is going to go a longer way. Like if you compared what you could
do with a million dollars in baseball versus a million dollars in basketball, it might be one borderline starter level
player in basketball versus one or not one I should say, you
know, versus five all conference level players in baseball,
there's a big difference in what you're kind of talking about
there, in what you can do. But I'm glad to hear that, you know,
because that's going to be a thing other schools are going to
try to poach coaches, not just based on their salary or their, you know,
footprint or their history or whatever, based on, hey, we can give you more money in rev share.
So cool to see that Kansas does that, but it's going to be a juggling act for Travis golf.
Kind of keeping all the coaches happy. Like this is the rev share you're going to get.
This is how you're going to make it work. But I think great news overall,
because Dan Fitzgerald has been a blessing on the KU baseball program.
All right. let's finish
up here little big 12 talk with Texas Tech be the future
powerhouse of the conference to come in a lot of different
sports.
Thanks for joining us on this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks.
Again, I'll be back in office for the normal studio setup. I
think starting with tomorrow's episode. So thank you to people
who have reached out about
stuff. But anyway, Texas Tech, I find this very interesting. If
the Red Raiders could basically be the the new powerhouse, so to
speak, of the Big 12 based off of money, or maybe even the
better way of putting it is like the New York Yankees of the Big
12. This was sent out by Brandon Marcello of
24 seven sports CBS Sports, who's a national college
football writer. And the original tweet said, Texas Tech
says it's fundraising arm the Red Raider club will be
responsible for generating $14 million annually to help fund
its 20 and a half million dollar rev share model. And then it
was quote tweeted by Brandon Marcelo and he said,
it's believed Texas Tech will pay its players $55 million
dollars revenue sharing plus NIL.
So that's a combination of the two among all its programs
this year making the Red Raiders perhaps the highest paid
college athletics program in the country.
And I know money can't buy everything in sports.
It doesn't always work that way.
But a lot of times in college football,
if you're that flush with cash, like it's hard to not be at least
more talented and good in a lot of these different sports.
And so I do wonder if Texas Tech is going to be, you know, maybe
the like are they going to be the most balanced best overall
athletic program in the Big 12 for years to come because it's
not just that maybe they're spending a top dollar of anyone in college athletics, but then maybe that gap is a
little bigger knowing you're going against other Big 12 schools. Now we've seen them be solid in
football. We haven't seen it pay off in terms of like being Big 12 champions. And I don't know,
like it almost feels like money can only buy you so much. I think the money goes a longer way maybe in basketball,
where if you get that one or two stud players,
like you get JT Toppin out of the portal,
then he ends up winning big 12 player of the year.
That's gonna have a bigger impact versus if you,
you could bring on 10,
what you think are good football players,
but football is such a big thing about the locker room
and how does the player fit.
And like, I don't know,
there's so much more that goes into it, that's not as
much of a guarantee plus more injuries and stuff in football.
So it will be interesting, though, but you've even seen it
for Texas Tech with the pitcher Kennedy, who's, you know, from
the Topeka from the Kansas area, who they basically I think the
talk was they paid like a million dollars in softball,
she's probably by far the highest paid softball player in
the country, and they immediately go to being, you
know, in the College World Series,
being one of the best teams in the entire country because they just added this one
player. Now that sports a little bit different where you can do that more.
Like you could have the best quarterback in the country.
But if you would have added the best quarterback in the country to like some of
those David Beatty rosters, you know, okay, maybe they're going to a bowl game now.
I don't know. But they're not, you know, competing for a national championship
like Texas Tech softball has been. But I do find that very interesting in a
conference like the Big 12, where it does feel like it's
more open. And it is kind of such a crapshoot in some way,
specifically with like football, that maybe Texas Tech becomes
that school that kind of locks down that top spot. And as we've
seen, Texas Tech be really good at basketball here, really since
the Chris Beard era and transferring in now to Grant McCasland. You
see the roster they're going to be putting together for this
year. I think Chance McMillan one of their guards is going to
be really good. I do have some questions about the rest of the
guards from there. But I do think or I'm sorry, it was a
chasing Anderson, whatever the young guard who was a freshman
last year, I think he's gonna be a stud in year two. Toppin is
obviously your big 12 player of the year. I like Lowan Watts,
the addition they brought from Washington State. I thought, okay, you should have gone
a little bit harder after him.
But you look at it, I think Texas Tech basketball,
I guess point being is here to stay
in terms of being a very competent
top 25 year in year out team.
I think Texas Tech football is gonna be as talented
as any roster in the big 12 kind of year in and year out
when you look at this.
And it almost just made like,
it'll be just very interesting to compare
when you have schools who have less money to deal with
than maybe the oil money that Texas Tech has
in terms of like, okay, can you play money ball?
Can you figure out ways to be just as competitive
despite not having some of this stuff?
And then again, we go back to the clearing house situation.
We go back to the NIL situation where it's like,
what happens if they are nixing a lot of these NIL deals
where all of a sudden that extra money TechStack has is pointless?
Because, you know, maybe they have all this,
again, if you're talking $55 million,
that's 35 over what you have in revshare.
But what if you're only using 10 a year on NIL?
Because you can't go much further than that
because they're like, nope, sorry,
that NIL deal is too much, you can't sign that. You know what I mean? And then it's like superfluous
and then it doesn't matter as much. But I do think tech is in a very unique position
that they could be a big 12 powerhouse for years to come. And we'll see how Kansas and
other schools in the big 12 can kind of respond to that.
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