iuswingman

I understand the discrepancy between coaches salary and player's lack thereof I think the fairness should have been coaches making less, not players making more. If colleges are swimming in that much cash, then reduce ticket prices, subsidize tuition for all students. There wouldn't have been as much gripping if coaches were still making 5 figures. The issue is competitive fairness and the fact that there is no fairness in the current setup. Colleges are just in bidding wars for the best players.

Probably a sure thing we will be going after a backup big. It's a gamble on how he does against better competition but may be the best option we can get for those backup minutes.

I get that. Was only saying that Mgbako was already on the team and his deciding to return likely had nothing to do with Liam not coming. Rest of my post was just my opinion on the replacements.

Not sure I would include Mgbako in that comparison. He would have had his scholarship regardless of McNeeley. Rice is probably better than Fland in the short term but hard to say long term. Ballo is better than Queen but only have him for a year. Tucker is supposedly not as good shooting from outside but probably a better defender. We did pretty good after losing out on all the recruits we thought could get.

It would be funny if everyone started venmoing a recruit $1 bills lol Of course, they might not see the humor other than enjoying getting the cash.

So the $10 worked....

Bidding war?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

woohoo lol

It was probably impossible to keep 5 QBs happy and Broc seemed the obvious choice based on ranking among those already on campus. Reports of Cherry's arm strength not being very good is concerning as far as him living up to the hype but he has obviously gotten himself to 3rd on the depth chart. Then we are going after the top rated QB in the next 2 classes. Long shots still but can't say Cigs isn't swinging for the fences.

I think probably wanting the 3 and d player. Someone that can be deadly from outside and play defense at the minimum. Of course, being awesome in other areas would be a bonus.

hence the many complaints about not going after more guards and leaving a scholarship open. And even after running a smaller lineup with mediocre guards worked better, Woodson doubled down on pretending his buddy ball in the post system was the way to go moving forward.

Most of the those suggestions seem pretty good. When Woodson actually had smaller lineups at times, they actually performed better during those stretches.

Who knew his name image and likeness was worth that much If we get him, thank the donor rather than Woodson

https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/travares-daniels-297602?view=pv

https://x.com/HowlandTrenten/status/1778846383216185463

We should be better from outside and may shoot a few more per game but I don't think you can just add how many players shot on other teams and assume they will get the same number of looks in our system.

Of course, that assumes the new players can maintain their shots per game in our system of post first.

Wonder if we would try pull in both Payne and Ballo or if it is 1 or the other. I'm hoping for Rice, Carlyle, Conwell, Ballo or Payne

Ranking 1) Ware 2) Rice 3) MM 4) Ballo 5) Carlyle 6) Tucker (if he stays for a while, he has a ton of potential to be higher) 7) Hickman (probably higher if factoring in need) 8 ) Cupps 9) Newton (only because we haven't seen anything) Overall this offseason would be better simply because it addressed the positions more evenly.

We are as good at hyping as most fanbases. Definitely haven't been living up to that hype. We are stuck with Woodson so I am right there with you on not being too optimistic about this upcoming season.

If it was me, I would roughly do the following MM at the 4, MR at the 5 for 10 minutes MM at the 4, Ballo at the 5 for 10 minutes MR at the 4, Ballo at the 5 for 20 minutes MM would then get stuck out of position at the 3 for maybe 10 minutes or so and Tucker and someone else could play the remaining 30 minutes at the 3.

It's hard to make a good lineup with MR being a tweener between 4 and 5. The issue wasn't with adding Mgbako and Ware though. The biggest issue was Woodson completely whiffed on adding any starting level guards and we went into the season with wild thing XJ and Gallo as our best guards.

I agree buddy ball limits our offense but no one here is advocating for not adding any shooters and leaving it to just Mgbako. Mgbako got brought up when someone said we didn't have any shooters. We hopefully will get a least 1 quality shooter that is in the high 30s or better percentage.

how are Rice and Carlyle with on the ball defense? Our defense stunk it up when Xavier wasn't playing or wasn't getting after it. We are just as a sparse on players that can pressure the ball as we are with outside shooting.