the portal causes a lot of teams to devalue high school players
Edited by arthurkirkland on April 3, 2026, 8:08:13
wagler was clearly skilled but appeared underdeveloped physically when he came in. if you saw him you might have seen a green banana who would need a year or two to physically mature. so, even if you liked his potential, if youre KU (going for a national championship in theory) or KSU (fighting for your job), you are incentivized to go into the portal and take a more developed and known commodity that can help you today. obviously wagler ended up being more productive than any of the guys they might have taken over him, but i suspect that was the thinking.
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Like today's story in the Washington Post:
The 6-foot-6 sharp-shooting Illinois guard helped Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Kansas win its first two state titles, one coming with a perfect season. He won a school record 80 games and finished among the top five on the school’s career lists in scoring, rebounds, assists and steals. He earned back-to-back Kansas Class 6A state player of the year awards in 2024 and 2025 and was the state’s 2025 Gatorade Player of the Year as recruiting analysts gave Wagler a four-star grade.
It's not like he was some gem buried in the sticks on a crummy team. That's a pretty good resume. I am still baffled that KU and KSU did not offer.
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