ChiefGritty’s recollection of Sam and mines are much different. Believed he played hurt and also missed significant time that year??
Oh look I don't want to denigrate the guy, and sure, perhaps injury problems were a major contributor to his struggles.
But you all remember that season. After the game where BP3 poured 43 on Ohio State we were 15-3 (4-1) and ranked #22 in the country. Then the implosion began, and of course was memorably punctuated by Weber's "mollycoddling" speech after the loss to Purdue.
That was an 8 game stretch. Maniscalco played in 7 of them, between 12 and 34 minutes in each. His combined total across that 7 game stretch was 1-18 shooting for 3 total points.
It was a rough, rough time. The comments were not nice in spaces like this.