After last night's end to a great season, decided to start this thread now, partly spurred on by seeing the Brian Howell/ Buffzone article linked to below that already starts the look-ahead to next season.
Obviously the 1st big news for CU will probably be whether the 3 seniors who have a Covid year they can take if they and the coaching staff are interested (Miller, Sherrod and Whittaker), decide to stay at CU and compete with the Buffs another season, or decide to move on (either to another University or to post-college life). (The article linked to below does address Miller's and Sherrod's status; sounds like it's still open, although Mr. Howell does give an opinion.)
And then, of course, the transfer portal in general seems to be more and more a source of big news each year, so learning of incoming and outgoing transfers, along with of course the continuing development and health of the current and incoming frosh Buffs, will be huge this offseason. (It will be interesting to me to see if/ how much the portal calms down (hopefully at least SOME?) once all the student-athletes with an extra Covid year option graduate within the next couple years or so.). A couple general transfer notes:
Direct link to article - https://www.buffzone.com/2023/03/25...ds-to-offseason-with-excitement-about-future/
Obviously the 1st big news for CU will probably be whether the 3 seniors who have a Covid year they can take if they and the coaching staff are interested (Miller, Sherrod and Whittaker), decide to stay at CU and compete with the Buffs another season, or decide to move on (either to another University or to post-college life). (The article linked to below does address Miller's and Sherrod's status; sounds like it's still open, although Mr. Howell does give an opinion.)
And then, of course, the transfer portal in general seems to be more and more a source of big news each year, so learning of incoming and outgoing transfers, along with of course the continuing development and health of the current and incoming frosh Buffs, will be huge this offseason. (It will be interesting to me to see if/ how much the portal calms down (hopefully at least SOME?) once all the student-athletes with an extra Covid year option graduate within the next couple years or so.). A couple general transfer notes:
- Looks like, if I'm reading a couple articles I found properly, winter sports student-athletes have 60 days from the day after their Championships' Tourney Selection Day to enter the Portal. So for WBB that would be 60 days starting from March 13th. Although, I assume most who enter do it as early as possible to get their "name out there" so that they can get on the radar of coaches at the schools they think might work best for them athletically and academically.)
- Looking at when news of incoming transfers have been formally announced the last couple of years, looks like Vonleh was announced as a new Buff on April 27th last year, while in 2021 Miller and Sadler were announced April 16th.
Direct link to article - https://www.buffzone.com/2023/03/25...ds-to-offseason-with-excitement-about-future/
