2025-26 Roster Chatter (UPDATE: Oweh Returns, Roster Complete)

[EKYCat]

2025-26 UK Team with Nil deals
Freshman
Moreno 600 -1.2 mil
Johnson 800 - 1.4 and a Cybertruck
Lewis 1.1-1.7 mil.
Total 2.5 mil - 4.3 mil
Transfers
Kam Williams - 1.5 -2.2 mil
JaLand Lowe - 1.7-2.4 mil
Mouhamed Dioubate - 1.2-2mil
Jayden Quaintance - 2.3-2.8 mil
Total 6.7 mil - 9.4 mil
Returners - only going off of last year. More than likely will all go up especially with the money being spent.
Perry -100-250K
Noah - 100-250K
Chandler 150-400K
Oweh 750k -1.2 mil
Garrison 800K - 1.5 mil
Total 1.9 mil - 3.6 mil
The total already before any more transfers and adjusting returning players NIL
11.1 mil - 17.3 mil
To keep Chandler and Garrison and Oweh more than likely will double or even more in chandlers case from last years NIL deals
So looking at closer to
14 mil - 20 mil

Are these deals out there where you can see how much these kids are getting? Or is it speculation? Not being obstinate, I genuinely don't know.

[justafan]

I make $237,000 a year for what I do here. I just assumed everybody did.

You should renegotiate!

[DA#23]

As best I know it's all speculation.

[George]

I was told JQ accepted somewhere between $1-1.5mil.

Kam only got $500k.

[EKYCat]

So the range posted above wasn't based on any kind of research or anything published anywhere? Got it.

[JFCats22]

2025-26 UK Team with Nil deals
Freshman
Moreno 600 -1.2 mil
Johnson 800 - 1.4 and a Cybertruck
Lewis 1.1-1.7 mil.
Total 2.5 mil - 4.3 mil
Transfers
Kam Williams - 1.5 -2.2 mil
JaLand Lowe - 1.7-2.4 mil
Mouhamed Dioubate - 1.2-2mil
Jayden Quaintance - 2.3-2.8 mil
Total 6.7 mil - 9.4 mil
Returners - only going off of last year. More than likely will all go up especially with the money being spent.
Perry -100-250K
Noah - 100-250K
Chandler 150-400K
Oweh 750k -1.2 mil
Garrison 800K - 1.5 mil
Total 1.9 mil - 3.6 mil
The total already before any more transfers and adjusting returning players NIL
11.1 mil - 17.3 mil
To keep Chandler and Garrison and Oweh more than likely will double or even more in chandlers case from last years NIL deals
So looking at closer to
14 mil - 20 mil

This is not remotely close to being correct.

[DA#23]

So the range posted above wasn't based on any kind of research or anything published anywhere? Got it.

I say that because there isn't a contract, it isn't going through some sort of "clearinghouse" ... yet, and I think that the nature of NIL so far has made where everyone's trying to falsely inflate what they can actually get out of all of this. It's speculation from and on many fronts.

Sure the recruiting insiders will say what a particular player received or even turned down, but this market is running without a fence right now and there's so many people trying to benefit from it. That includes a program and its perception.

[George]

The Yates smoke is blowing back in UW's direction.

[justafan]

I say that because there isn't a contract, it isn't going through some sort of "clearinghouse" ... yet, and I think that the nature of NIL so far has made where everyone's trying to falsely inflate what they can actually get out of all of this. It's speculation from and on many fronts.

Sure the recruiting insiders will say what a particular player received or even turned down, but this market is running without a fence right now and there's so many people trying to benefit from it. That includes a program and its perception.

Everyone involved has incentive to overinflate the numbers.

Theres no one anyone knows the numbers. A player can go to Jeff Bezos and get an NIL gig and only those two people will know that dollar amount.

[Joneslab]

The Yates smoke is blowing back in UW's direction.

Jones' use of the word "shooter" in that tweet was interesting, I thought. Might suggest that they're looking for a final situational guard a la Brea.

[KentuckyWild2020]

According to Pete Nakos of On3, the Cats have a budget of around $8-10 million to spend on the 2025-26 roster.

“Pope could be working with an $8 to $10 million payroll, depending on how much Kentucky allocates to its basketball team in revenue sharing. Kentucky has already proved it is ready to play ball in this year’s transfer portal. Despite losing out to UCLA on New Mexico guard Donovan Dent, the Wildcats were a top contender. Dent’s reported asking price was around the $3 million mark.”

If the Cats’ have $6 million in NIL dollars plus this settlement, it appears that this Kentucky staff could be working with one of the best budgets in the sport.

[KCKUKFan]

This is not remotely close to being correct.

If you've been following along with this thread this morning, you shouldn't be surprised.

Our guy JWORLD has been smoking some of the finest.

[KCKUKFan]

Jones' use of the word "shooter" in that tweet was interesting, I thought. Might suggest that they're looking for a final situational guard a la Brea.

Pierre.

[justford]

The Yates smoke is blowing back in UW's direction.

Seems like it depends where assistant coach Poindexter goes?? Supposedly going to coach at Washington so Yates would follow him there. Just never know in portal wars.

[Joneslab]

Didn't Tubby Smith aggressively recruit Quincy Pondexter? Seems like I remember following that guy back in the day.