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Evan Miya has Jayden Reid as the #1196 rated player in Division 1.
South Florida was a bad team this past season (#193 overall), with Reid ranked as their 3rd best player.
His Performance Rating was 1.25 - indicating that he was 1.25 points per game better than an average D1 player.
For comparison, Northwestern's Performance Ratings ranged from Nicholson at 5.24 down to Justin Mullins at 1.68 and Angelo Ciaravino at 1.66. Jordan Clayton played a limited number of games and registered a -0.38, indicating a below average D1 player.

Bart Torvik has Reid's "Points Over Replacement At This Usage Rate" at 1.50. This is Torvik's method for rating players. It favors players who get more minutes, so you can't really compare a starter at South Florida with a bench guy at Northwestern.

My interpretation is that Reid is alright and Collins brought him in specifically for ball handling (with scoring) and defensive quickness, which we lacked last year with Leach and Berry. Hopefully (fingers crossed) he is seen as an upgrade for Clayton and will not take minutes from Windham.

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AdamOnFirst said:

We need the 7-3 kid bad, we really needed the kid who went to Wale Forest too tbh

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If he goes to Kentucky...much much less playing time than at nu. Academics not as good either

hdhntr1 said:

Then it makes total sense that he decided to move on. If we get even one BIG through portal, his minutes would be limited. And if we got two, they would be gone

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We can speculate as much as we want. Hunger got his degree in 3 years. Thats impressive and I congratulate him for that.

Certainly it implies that Coach Collins has connected with a significant big guy in the portal.
But that remains to be seen - and the quality of the transfer is unknown.

It could imply that Coach Collins has made it clear that one of the freshmen (Bennerman) is ahead of Hunger, but that seems like a reach at this point. At the very least Hunger would split time with a freshman center.

It could imply that Coach Collins had that talk with Luke Hunger and said "I just don't think you're a Big Ten starter" and Hunger just happened to have an exit ramp via graduation.

Or Hunger could just want to move on - regardless of Collins - and see what he can get.

*Verbal Commits has 1885 players in the portal, but not Luke Hunger

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Great news. He has built a solid program and the contract gives him security. He is an excellent recruiter and has surrounded himself with a solid coaching staff. Go Cats!

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We need the 7-3 kid bad, we really needed the kid who went to Wale Forest too tbh

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