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Sucking it in so far his backbone bulged with a 60s church certified girdle maybe 🙂

Mine left a lot of sticks and leaves behind last time, and I'm looking for a new one...know anybody?

Or Eric Gregg... And if I'm in the HR department of MLB and we're hiring umpires, any resume with the last name "Hernandez" gets relegated to the circular file automatically

SMH...Hunter Wendelstedt...Harry's kid...And just as bad...

It's all water under the bridge...But I'd agree with that

You GIVE the chance, you EARN the minutes...

I think Cupps was a backup to XJ and Galloway at the point, with hopes that Gunn would develop and get time at the 2, and Leal picking up spot minutes... The point has been made by @Zlinedavid that you have to give kids, especially sophomores, a shot to develop and earn playing time...And that's true...

Up until he broke his foot against Kansas, XJ had played in every game (118) at Pitt and IU and started 115 of them...That's injury prone? And if you remember, there was talk of him coming back at the end of 20-23...so he was pretty much healed, then had a whole off season to recover as well... And every team has unknowns/unproven backups...That's where you hope kids develop

The conversation started with "why wasn't that 13th scholarship filled" and now has morphed into Gunn and Banks needing to be cut loose and our talent upgraded... So, yeah, it's apples and oranges...

You're mixing apples and oranges... If Woodson wanted to upgrade talent, and gave Gunn and Banks their walking papers, that's one thing... Worrying about the 13th scholarship after that fact is another...

Hindsight is always 20/20... His job WASN'T on the line though...He was trying to get kids to develop and contribute... It doesn't always work out...

So you coach...You never give kids a chance?

If you remember, Joey Hart was a name to know at one time...Does anybody really think he would have made much of a difference last season?

Disagree, but that's ok...

Sometimes you gotta trust to get the results you want... I don't think Woodson was guilty of anything other than giving Gunn and Banks a chance to earn their spots...

We can argue about it til the cows come home, but in my eyes, it was nothing more than another thing to criticize Woodson about... A 13th kid on the roster, especially one that we could have gotten in the time frame that we had, wasn't going to make a difference to our season...

They didn't know Newton wasn't playing until August

Maybe...But that wasn't what our resident PUkes brought here...

Where I'm sure he'll start and get 30 minutes per game 🙄

It was just one more thing to drop on Mike Woodson's head... You know...Like where Armond Hill sat?

Douche deluxe... He blocked a dude called Tyme on twitter for pointing out the same Rice/Mgbako/Carlyle numbers you did...

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I think that's about the only way it can be played at this point... The kids all have representation (and the really smart ones get a pro, and not some family member/friend who thinks they know how to talk money), and I'm sure the schools/collectives have certain people representing their interest as well... At this point, it's kinda the Wild West...But we seem to have gotten ahead of the game, and are already pretty good at it...