Jeff Ngandu enters transfer portal
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Well that's a surprise, or a very well kept secret by everyone at the Hall.
What a disaster the 2020 recruiting class turned out to be.
What a disaster the 2020 recruiting class turned out to be.
how does transferring change his situation?
Might set up Bayron Matos to commit to SHU, he is committing tomorrow.
I cannot pronounce "Matos" in my head without following it up with "... the Freshmaker!"
I guess Ngandu is Ngandon’t.
Right up there with the 2015 class which turned out to be a real dud.Thank God for the transfer portal and I hope the staff recruits it hard and finds another big to replace Ngandu . What will be a fitting ending to the Ngandu saga is that he land at a school that will have no trouble getting him a visa.
The thing that bugs me the most about this whole saga is that not only was this one of essentially 3 wasted scholarships last year that had our roster down to only 10 players for most of the year, (TT forfeit, Jeff N, and Aiken) but SHU has one of the best diplomacy schools in the country. You’re telling me that we don’t have any alumni or other connections who work in the state department that could have tried to help move things along with this Visa mess? I realize the issues were more so with Canada than the US, but stuff like this seems to only happen at SHU. The only thing worse would be a scholarship player quitting mid season to focus on law school or trade bitcoin in his dorm room but something that ridiculous would never actually happen in real life, right?
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Maybe the diplomacy school people did try? Who knows with this entire situation. I have a feeling he wouldn’t have made a difference anyway.
BTW - Was the TT penalty gone after the 2019-20 season?
BTW - Was the TT penalty gone after the 2019-20 season?
should def be gone now.
but why is ngandu transferring? will be a bad look if another team has no problem getting him in
No, it's a different year and Canadian regulations are starting to ease off.
No one could have gotten him into this country last year.
No one could have gotten him into this country last year.
Maybe transferring for the exact reason that restrictions will soon be easing and he can finally get in .... and a year later wants to go somewhere else? Minds and circumstances change over the course of a year, don’t they?
Metal this had nothing to do with usa canada relationship, he is an african national who applied for temp status in canada and then covid likely to blame on his lack of chance to enter usa but you would think a staff would realize this ahead of time
He’s been a remote athletic scholarship student all year long
One of my all time favorite pirates. No one logged onto a remote class quite like Jeff.
Indeed but on the flip side SHU has prevailed in the transfer market over most other Big East schools and other programs. I would take Richmond, Harris, etc over Ngandu and Stevens. I get it, the importance of developing players but that doesn't guarantee better wins over the transfer portal.
Is this:
a) A function of Willard's closing ability which has always been inconsistent?
b) Skinn and 40 slow to get traction?
c) Other?
If we can’t get him enrolled, what is one to do. Let’s get the next best player and move on.
... or he reassessed his place on our roster and figured he had better opportunities elsewhere? So many things have or could have changed in his life/our program/the entire world since he committed.
Despite his visa questions early on, in 2019 he was recruited by West Virginia (17), LSU (28), Oklahoma (46), Cincinnati (51), NC State (53), Arizona St (54), Georgetown (65), Oregon St (71) and Kansas St (99). Rated 3 stars by Rivals. Definitely a project but curious how it all works out for him.
Now have 11 on scholarship + Cale (exempt), so have 2 scholarships open technically.
I agree. I don't understand how another school will be able to get him to the US, when we can't. Additionally, with Samuel's lack of playing time and Ngandu's transfer, the Canadian pipeline may have closed.
I agree also. Canada is on lock down now and even horse trainers and jockeys are not allowed to go to the U.S. but their horses can. I don't see how any school could get him to the U.S. any sooner than we could.
Exactly....maybe his plan is to play in Canada.
Lots of people were able to get in and out. That was not Ngandu problem, his problem was an immigration status problem, based on recent articles he is trying to get Canadian citizenship as a refugee before coming to the US. So assume any other school will also have to wait for this to be resolved.
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Whenever you're dealing with multiple bureaucracies and multiple countries you can multiply the degree of difficulty in getting the problems resolved and it doesn't matter whether it's a simple issue or a complex one . There is one truism when you're in that position and that is that it's never resolved quickly as we've all seen.
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