Sean Blake and David Simon enter the portal

Portal season is upon us and both David Simon and Sean Blake intend to enter the portal when it opens on April 7th. They are the second and third Catamounts to enter the portal after Ben Wesson announced last week. Up until this point, Vermont had miraculously avoided significant losses in the portal but Blake breaks that trend. He really grew tremendously this year and his trajectory continues to look very strong. That leaves a big hole in the Vermont roster with the point guard position already being quite thin and the guard room lost to graduation. Blake will be a big time addition to any program and I wish him the best of luck as he charts a new course. David Simon flashed lots of potential and we will always have that insane Pepperdine game to remember him by. Unfortunately, injuries derailed his season and he never got to fully integrate into the Vermont program. I wish him the best of luck at his new spot. 

It would be naive to think that Vermont was never going to lose one of their young up and coming stars to the portal, especially with their limited resources compared to their top mid-major peers. This coaching staff can still sell the winning and player development but the longer into this era the Cats go without more resources (or a new facility), the more common this might become.  It will be another busy offseason for the Cats with 7 roster spots to fill and the portal has not officially opened yet.