Luke Hunger enters the transfer portal

[mshelton33]

 

[GatoLouco]

Any idea if he has graduated?

 

[ThatkidfromHolland]

Any idea if he has graduated?

Grad transfer 2 years of eligibility

 

[GatoLouco]

Grad transfer 2 years of eligibility

Makes it a much easier decision to transfer if he is a pragmatic, there's more to life than bball, type of guy

 

[Arlcatsfan]

Good luck to Luke. Gave his all when he was on the court and while it didn't work out that way he got his degree from NU and nothing wrong with that. Hope he finds a good fit academically and athletically for him.

 

[EagerFan]

Absolutely, good luck!

 

[NUera]

Yup. Wish this guy nothing but good things. He played hard and did his best when called upon. Now go get your masters and your minutes, big fella.

 

[TheC]

This really puts the pressure on identifying a decent big in the portal. Right now, we would have a high school senior starting at center for us.

 

[olshin]

Was gonna suck to have to pay the tariff on him.

Good luck to Luke, who always did his best and represented the Cats! Hope you find a great landing spot.

Yeah, we need to find some bigs next year. ASAP.

 

[CappyNU]

Was gonna suck to have to pay the tariff on him.

 

[TheC]

Can you just use your line item veto instead of killing the whole thread? 😆

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

Was gonna suck to have to pay the tariff on him.

Some drunk hillbilly told me that Canada would have to pay that tariff, so thats not it.

 

[hdhntr1]

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My guess is that getting a couple bigs through portal looking more and more likely

 

[hdhntr1]

Grad transfer 2 years of eligibility

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

 

[EagerFan]

This thread has become taxing, let's not get distracted from thanking Luke for his efforts and wishing him luck. I'm hopeful that he'll land somewhere cool (i.e. not another B1G school) and we can keep track of his progress and root for him.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

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

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

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

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

 

[mickbula]

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

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