Recent content by Second place is 1st loser

The problem is the they have no choice. The time that makes changes was in the off-season. Unless they find some magic in their farm system, they're going to ride this out and hope to find some magic. They won't(and shouldn't) depleted their farm system to plug in one hole, when there are a...

I despise the budgeting reasoning for not landing the first wave of elite players, then being told that we're going to land a big fish from those electing to come back to school, then going back to the budgeting reasoning for making choices. Which other legitimate contenders are budgeting...

His point is that while he may be good, he's not the caliber of player compared to those we expected to be in on and that's true.

That's an overstatement. There are people that are used to having a roster with known commodities, a high floor/high ceiling outlook, a team that starts in the top 25 and is discussed, even in the off-season. We don't have that this year. Our roster is a complete unknown. If an A list...

We had an All American coming back(TJ) and an All Conference caliber big coming back(Hawkins). We also had guys that were here for some time(Dain, Goode, Ty, etc). That's one heck of a starting point. We didn't have to worry if they could play together. They had and were a tournament team. We...

Is there going to be ANYONE out there who is a legitimate all conference caliber player from the get go and not a guy that we're hoping we can develop? The second question would be that if that guy is out there, can we pay them market value? This seems to be the issue or at least an issue.

I don't think that anyone is saying that we're done adding players, but what is pretty obvious is that we're not going to land any headliners....unless we're REALLY going to be blindsided by a "star" caliber player and our ability to pay market value. That just hasn't shown to be the case. I...

This is 100% on the button. To replace guys when it comes to volume is one thing, but trying to replace an All American is a whole different ordeal. The only way that he was going to be replaced, even to a marginal extent, would have been for us to pony up the money for a "star". That's not...

Look at the lack of traffic on this thread now that the season is over. In December, this was 10 pages long...in an hour. The fans were loud and running to his defense and we're demanding justice. Just goes to show the "business" side of things. To many(not all) of the fans...it's out of...

Torvik has us at #56, pretty close to last in the conference. Woof.

Per our other insiders......it's sailed and is full steam ahead. Have to move on to the next player who is asking for too much(aka...more than we have).

TJ is one hell of an outlier. Who is going to replace an All American that carried us through the Big Ten Tournament and for the first three rounds of the NCAA Tournament? We were a good team last year, but not a great team until TJ went nuclear for a two week stretch. He was a 30 PPG scorer...

All of the top tier players have had high asking prices. This isn't a surprise. Our camp either severely mismanaged what the going rate was for some of these guys or our NIL funds aren't what we thought compared to the market value of the elite players. In either case it's a bummer because...

This sounds like a situation that could take a long while to sort itself out. Can BU take the chance on letting this play out, missing in various options, then have a swing and miss? I would hope that his/their confidence level would have to be at about 95% to go down that path and take that...

Ahhh.....that makes total sense. Good call.