Recent content by ChiefGritty

Awesome to be back at the UC. My one quibble is that with Birmingham being such a meaningless place to hold the game (that's just a Bama home game in a lesser facility and environment), we're better off just having the return game in Tuscaloosa because of how the NET system treats true road...

The thing I always wonder is how much the high rollers influence and dictate what players are worth what money as opposed to the staff's more basketball educated view. A healthy relationship between bagmen and staff has been key for a long time, but it's all so much more formalized now.

I disagree. 10 is more than enough, and you wouldn't want to dilute the talent of your best guys to save resources for those extra spots. 13 scholarships just kinda doesn't make sense for the direction of where the sport is going. It's a delicate balance and for me we're one Denzel away (a...

With no Demin or some other guard/wing scorer we're pretty short in terms of bucket getting, it would just be kind of an oddly shaped roster. Thankfully we're in pursuit of the piece that would complete things. But the potential upside is huge if we've got Demin, Ivisic, Boswell, Booth, White...

The lack of a greedy football program sure seems like a factor here doesn't it?

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Oh I'm not saying Nico gets a spot in the rotation as things are constructed. But counting on that same group to be available and healthy and performing for every game of a whole season, especially given the youth and newness of the group, is not a reasonable assumption. A developing true true...

Nico was playing as a freshman last year before he got hurt. Not promising him a role that isn't planned for him is admirable honesty, and his skillset isn't as differentiated on this next roster, but he's still a club not currently in BU's bag, and BU has a tendency to tinker with every...

One injury to Boswell from that changing. It's good that the staff is honest with kids about these expectations, the bigger culture problems come from lying to them about how much they can expect to play, but, y'know, you still catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Nico beats an empty chair for sure, and would be valuable just in terms of another foreigner who has been through the trials and tribulations of college basketball if Ivisic and Demin are both newbies on the team. I also like him as a player, physical limitations aside.

I strongly agree with this conceptually, that allocating an NIL budget should prioritize the biggest assets and there's no point in treating roster spot #13 the same way as roster spot #1, and I think it's going to be an adjustment in the way we look at college basketball. But I just think what...

Kind of an interesting question because Demin isn't exactly a 2 himself. Does Boswell, Ty, Demin, Humidifier and Ivisic work as a starting lineup? Plenty of shooting but would that group be able to guard anybody?

I'm a low-key believer too, but it also has to be acknowledged that he was really bad last year, so RELYING on him to be a centerpiece of the team would introduce major downside risk into projecting next season.

Ivisic, Morez, Booth and Humdinger is just a really nice blend of talents, ages, experience levels, etc. Those guys are all going to make each other better practicing against each other and will all compete for minutes giving us great depth on the inside. Ty and Tre can contribute at the 4 as...

Kadary Richmond absolutely projects as a better 2024-25 college basketball player, even if Demin has the much brighter pro future. Almost a 5 year age gap between them. Either one of them would be a home run for us though. For sure, a lot of similarity there. The book on Booth is that he's...