Congrats and best wishes for success!

He's a Chanticleer.

Happy for him to have this behind him.

I think this Coastal experience goes sharply one of two ways over the next 22 months:  he plays like we all know he can, enters the portal, and ends up at a high-level program to play for a year or two; or, he goes to one of the prettiest campuses in America, with some of the most distractions in America for a college kid, and he fails to maximize his amazing God-given talents.

I'm rooting like crazy for the first one to happen!   Hope he kills it down there and opens up a world of possibilities for himself.

Coastal Carolina has had some Kentucky connections over the years. Current South Alabama coach Richie Riley (from South Laurel) was an assistant at Coastal. Coastal's current Director of Basketball Operations, Matt Hurt, is an Alice Lloyd graduate who has been an assistant at Pikeville College and head coach at both Cordia and Knott County Central.

1 hour ago, gchs_uk9 said:

Coastal Carolina has had some Kentucky connections over the years. Current South Alabama coach Richie Riley (from South Laurel) was an assistant at Coastal. Coastal's current Director of Basketball Operations, Matt Hurt, is an Alice Lloyd graduate who has been an assistant at Pikeville College and head coach at both Cordia and Knott County Central.

Zack Settembre from Louisville was on Cliff Ellis’s staff a few years ago.

He went with Billy Clyde Gillespie at Tarleton State for the 22/23 season and has since moved on to New Mexico State.

Oh the life of assistant coaches!

2 hours ago, The Double Deuce said:

Happy for him to have this behind him.

I think this Coastal experience goes sharply one of two ways over the next 22 months:  he plays like we all know he can, enters the portal, and ends up at a high-level program to play for a year or two; or, he goes to one of the prettiest campuses in America, with some of the most distractions in America for a college kid, and he fails to maximize his amazing God-given talents.

I'm rooting like crazy for the first one to happen!   Hope he kills it down there and opens up a world of possibilities for himself.

I had the same thoughts.  I believe he could done the same thing at WKU.

1 hour ago, 4 Quarters said:

I had the same thoughts.  I believe he could done the same thing at WKU.

I agree on 2-years and move up, but I think going away from home still allows him a "cushion" to fall back on if he doesn't move up. The portal let's him come home and dominate near his hometown with a great chance to play in the tournament. If things REALLY fizzled, he can still fall back on TMU, Georgetown, etc. 

1 hour ago, ChickenWyngz said:

I agree on 2-years and move up, but I think going away from home still allows him a "cushion" to fall back on if he doesn't move up. The portal let's him come home and dominate near his hometown with a great chance to play in the tournament. If things REALLY fizzled, he can still fall back on TMU, Georgetown, etc. 

I'm just a casual college basketball fan, so this may sound like a silly question, but how many guys are using the portal to "move up"? Most of the moves I've seen are lateral at best,  and usually are moves down to lower profile schools. 

I think staying at Coastal for 4 yrs isn't bad either. Every time I hear the word portal I cringe for some reason. Meyer may fit in nicely there.

8 minutes ago, rjs4470 said:

I'm just a casual college basketball fan, so this may sound like a silly question, but how many guys are using the portal to "move up"? Most of the moves I've seen are lateral at best,  and usually are moves down to lower profile schools. 

Look at the portal adds by the Top 25 programs, nearly all of them are from mid-major programs.  Look at Souley Boum last year, All Big East player from Xavier who came from UTEP.  There are a ton of those 3rd and 4th year guys bouncing way up.  There are certainly a lot of Power 5 guys dropping down for more playing time, but there are a lot of guys who were under-recruited who are playing Big Boy Basketball in the last 2 years (or so) of their career because they were under-recruited.

12 minutes ago, rjs4470 said:

I'm just a casual college basketball fan, so this may sound like a silly question, but how many guys are using the portal to "move up"? Most of the moves I've seen are lateral at best,  and usually are moves down to lower profile schools. 

Here are just a few moves from this year already:

*  Merrimack to Virginia

*  N. Colorado to Tennessee

*  Valpo to Iowa

*  Towson to Kansas

*  Tulane to LSU

*  Harvard to Tennessee

*  VCU to Penn State

*  Delaware to TCU

Just a few...it is quite common.

2 hours ago, PulpFiction said:

I think staying at Coastal for 4 yrs isn't bad either. Every time I hear the word portal I cringe for some reason. Meyer may fit in nicely there.

My thoughts exactly. The young man hasn’t even gotten there and already people talking about him moving on, smh. He could end up being a huge part of CCU’s success and it could have the makings of a Cinderella story in the tourney! 
Let the thing play out. He’s obviously there for a reason and loyalty has its advantages too! For every 10 positive portal moves there are 50+ that simply don’t work out as the player had hoped
 

He’ll be successful due to his game and work ethic and I’m wishing him great good luck at his first stop and certainly if he has a subsequent one. 

We spend time at Coastal games in most sports as part time residents of the area. I always tell my wife that when I watch coaches interact with players in those sports, men's and women's, I think the players enjoy the experience at Coastal. Grayson McCall has stayed after two straight years of speculation. NIL opportunities in a resort area are pretty good. I think this young man will do fine at CCU athletically and enjoy the experience. Coach Ellis' wife is a hoot sitting behind their bench lol.