Northwestern loses Tre Singleton to the portal
In what has to be considered a major blow to the Northwestern program, freshman forward Tre Singleton plans to enter the transfer portal.
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Paging Baz!Northwestern loses Tre Singleton to the portal
In what has to be considered a major blow to the Northwestern program, freshman forward Tre Singleton plans to enter the transfer portal.www.on3.com
Maybe they can lure Carmody out of retirement to take the program to the next level!
Why don’t you have your big shot friends that talk to Jackson donate the $1.2M he will get from the B1G 12 team that tampered with him?
I mean, in this market he’s worth that or more. If we can’t pay that, then he’s not gonna stay. There are dozens of teams who can and will pay that for his talent.
If I was CCC I would get the **** out of NU. Until they realize this is basically professional sports and you can’t win with a Pittsburgh Pirates salary outflow going against the likes of the LA Dodgers, you will never be a consistent winner. You think Skenes will stay with the Pirates any longer than he has too? We have to at least get to the Baltimore Orioles to make a run.
NU alum are probably as wealthy on a per capita basis as any P4 program. Surely, we can beat the bushes and get donations to be competitive. They have no problem building up the endowment.
To me, this is a clear case of tampering, blaming Collins is ludicrous. You could have Danny Hurley here and he couldn’t build a consistent winner with these obstacles. NU is sunk until they make a decision to go all in. Don’t care who the Coach is.
Exactly. Either commit the funding to athletics or move to an Ivy League.
I know NU isn't spending at the top of the conference but it's not like they don't spend money at all, and Singleton was the potential face of the program going forward. Do we even know that this is over money?
No, we aren’t sure it’s about money, but I feel it is very likely. The rumors were out there 3 weeks ago with very high numbers being rumored from a few prominent B1G 12 programs.
This isn’t a Collins problem. It’s a money issue that he can’t influence. His seat isn’t warmer, but the odds of him leaving to go to another school in the near future increase each time this happens. And it’s going to happen more and more now that NIL has grown very quickly each offseason.
What’s sad is I know after Mart’s last game, someone said something like “Boo showed Nick how to stay and now Nick showed Singleton how to stay and that’s how you build culture”.
The reality is, what Nick actually showed is that he likely left $1M or more on the table by not playing his last season elsewhere… and what he got for it was a terrible season where they were out of NCAAT bid contention by mid December. Meanwhile, he’s going to go play G League for a couple years and then go to China and his career earnings will likely never even match what he passed up for one year of NCAA ball somewhere else. A noble decision, but a very bad business decision.
THAT is what Tre learning from Nick. If you have a chance to make a ton more money and also a chance to actually win and raise your visibility for the next level, you have to take it. That’s really bad news for next year and the next decade if there aren’t changes immediately.
The reality is, what Nick actually showed is that he likely left $1M or more on the table by not playing his last season elsewhere… and what he got for it was a terrible season where they were out of NCAAT bid contention by mid December. Meanwhile, he’s going to go play G League for a couple years and then go to China and his career earnings will likely never even match what he passed up for one year of NCAA ball somewhere else. A noble decision, but a very bad business decision.
THAT is what Tre learning from Nick. If you have a chance to make a ton more money and also a chance to actually win and raise your visibility for the next level, you have to take it. That’s really bad news for next year and the next decade if there aren’t changes immediately.
Meh, if Nick has NBA talent it wouldn't have mattered if he took a big paycheck to be the third or fourth option on a better paying team. He spent his last year getting a lot of experience and a ton of media attention being successful as the primary option. If he's got what it takes, he'll get his shot because of his last year at NU, not in spite of it.
If the lesson Tre took away is chase a bigger paycheck for a smaller roll on a team of mercenaries, he wasn't paying attention. But we don't know what it's all really about. Maybe we will someday soon. Maybe not.
If the lesson Tre took away is chase a bigger paycheck for a smaller roll on a team of mercenaries, he wasn't paying attention. But we don't know what it's all really about. Maybe we will someday soon. Maybe not.
Nick isn’t sniffing the NBA lol. And his agent and he knew that before this year.
He’ll get some looks. Don’t underestimate him.
I would've thought the same thing. But he was getting solid sniffs even before this season.
This sucks. It's moving me one step closer to not really caring about college sports. I don't watch nearly as many games as I used to when I was younger. Even professional athletes stay with their team for a few years. It becomes very discouraging to see such roster turnover every single year and to know that you have to worry every season that your best players are going to leave you. It really takes a lot of the fun out of rooting for a team - especially a mid-tier team like ours.
Also, I know these are sour grapes, but Tre Singleton is far from a superstar. We will miss him because he's one of the few guys we had to build around, but he wasn't showing up on any all-freshmen teams after that last season. He can't shoot and he lacks aggression. I don't know who is advising him to move on, but short of a bigger paycheck, I think this is a huge mistake.
Also, I know these are sour grapes, but Tre Singleton is far from a superstar. We will miss him because he's one of the few guys we had to build around, but he wasn't showing up on any all-freshmen teams after that last season. He can't shoot and he lacks aggression. I don't know who is advising him to move on, but short of a bigger paycheck, I think this is a huge mistake.
I probably misunderstood your post then. You probably meant that he skipped the biggest paycheck his talent and ability would ever earn by playing the year at NU.
Yeah, TheC, losing Tre is really bad in the sense that he could have been developed into a decent player with another year or two.
Who knows, maybe he realized he doesn't have what it takes to be the main guy and is moving on to a place with a bigger paycheck where he only has to be an ok third or fourth option. It worked for Kopp and Nance. Well, it worked out for Nance. I've lost track of Kopp.
Who knows, maybe he realized he doesn't have what it takes to be the main guy and is moving on to a place with a bigger paycheck where he only has to be an ok third or fourth option. It worked for Kopp and Nance. Well, it worked out for Nance. I've lost track of Kopp.
Tre is a good player now that will get better. This is a significant loss. Let’s not replace with the typical 6’4 shooting guard from the Ivy league or a mid major.
Singleton is a ******* moron. He’s going bag chase, when he comes from an upper middle class family not short on cash. He’s blowing an NU degree, when he’s not close to NBA material, and will be making $75,000 in Europe in a few years riding a bus for 8 hours. Good riddance, *****.
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I actually think he can and will be replaced, but because from what I saw he wasn't going to be a great player, only a good one. As someone said above, he wasn't an "All Freshmen" pick. I saw about 12 ppg next year and we can probably find that. That said it's clearly bad for the program because he probably was the best talent we had on board for now.
When are you ever going to learn that most players in the two revenue sports don’t give a **** about the NU degree when they can make high 6 figure and in Singleton’s case low 7 figure income as a 19 year old. This guy will make more in the next decade than you will in your career. Who is the ******* moron?
He started as a Freshman in the B1G. He will be a really good player somewhere.
Singleton struck me as a player with top-flight defensive potential who needed to work on his shooting, especially from the perimeter. If he becomes a decent scorer and an all-conference caliber defender that's a hugely valuable player even if not a "star" in the conventional sense.
Well, given I’ve made more than 7 already I guess not? Idiot. Also, he is not getting low 7. He’s a potential player not more at this point. And still a moron like you!
I mean, given they pay $3500 per seat in the WC for 6 seats and donate a ton on top of that…
Tre was a good player last year. He has the potential to be a very good one and that is why he will be a millionaire by this time next year. Sucks for NU but hard to blame a guy for maximizing their earning years. He has a strong shot at making the league. Kid is only going to get better. He’s an NBA level frame and talent imo. Really tough loss for NU.
We are talking about Reid. My opinion is Tre is going to be a really good player. Your opinion is obviously different. I’ll take 4 year starters in my program any day of the week.
This is where I am at as well. This is clearly not a good thing but I don’t think it’s catastrophic. Singleton is not an elite athlete and he can’t shoot. I’m sure his shooting will improve but I don’t think it will ever get to serviceable (I could be wrong). He could be a very good defender and rebounder, which is not nothing, but I don’t see him being anywhere close to all big material. And for those saying this is sour grapes, I have thought this all season.