Jeff Goodman sounds off on Will Wade: ‘You suck for college basketball’

Dauster provided the details to set up the conversation, and Goodman went on to deliver a fiery rant blasting Wade. “They have three transfers- Mouhamed Dioubate from Kentucky, Abdi Bashir from Kansas State, and Divine Ugochukwu from Michigan State committed to the program. And they have four overseas players,” Dauster explained.

“They have a kid named Saliou Niang, an Italian kid that was born in 2004. Brice Dessert from France was born in 2003. They’ve got a Brazilian that’s been playing in the EuroLeague named Marcio Santos, the guy that everyone thought was going to end up going to Kentucky when Mark Pope visited him, who was born in 2002.

” “And over the weekend, there was a report that they got a commitment from Yam Madar, who was born in 2000, who will be 26 in November, who was drafted in 2020, the same draft class as Anthony Edwards, James Wiseman, LaMelo Ball, and his countryman Deni Avdija,” Dauster continued. “The report is that he’s going to be getting paid $5 million. I don’t know the exact number.

The price of it doesn’t really matter. It’s the simple fact that a 26-year-old Euroleague pro, that was one of the highest-paid players in the EuroLeague, which is the second-best league in the world, is going to be able to come to the United States and play college basketball. “And that on top of the fact that RJ Luis, who was a Big East Player of the Year in 2025, who played three seasons at UMass and at St.