My numbers may be not be precise, but there are around 4500 scholarship basketball players each year in D1 and there have been at least 1800 players in the portal this year. UNCW's roster is incomplete right now and there isn't a lot of movement with commitments. I think that is universal, but it feels more pressing for our team because we don't care about what is going on anywhere else.

Calling year 1 a train wreck or dumpster fire is nonsense. Yes, there were concerns at the end of the year and we were one of the first schools to lose a significant part of our roster. That is unprecedented and my kneejerk reaction was the same as many on here. But, now that we can see that it's happening everywhere, I think it would do everyone good to step back and wait. With the portal, who even knows what date to target, but my impression is that we'll have an opportunity to pickup talent later in the process. I hope that the students are able to be on campus and in class in a manner that looks close to normal.