HUGE win for the angry garden gnome.
Games Thread
Not a Cronin fan, but UCLA shoved AZ. Strong win. But still too early. Cronin still has plenty of time to screw up.
So Moser seat is Luke warm or hot
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
OU should change team name from sooners to laters ..........they really really should ........
Seton Hall played an away exhibition game against Monmouth on October 24th, winning 53 - 50. He played 16 minutes. Second most minutes after the starters. Scored 7 points (the highest scorer had only 10 points, so not far off). No assists. 3 turnovers.
Then last night they beat St. Peter's 66-42 at home. He played 13 minutes, scored 3 points, and had 3 assists. His minutes were comparable to the other non-starters. 0 turnovers.
I'm surprised OU still stayed with Moser. Good guy, just in over his head at OU. Should have stayed and built something special at Loyola.
Probably trying to keep the “King” happy.
Glad he's at duke
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
Vaaks > Blackwell
I got flamed pretty hard over the summer saying Blackwell was overhyped in the portal:
- Not a playmaker
- Average defender
- Was 2nd best player on a 24-11 team
I'm going to be following Duke a bit closer than I'd like to this season (yuck) after all that talk about them just buzz sawing anyone and everyone this year.
- Not a playmaker
- Average defender
- Was 2nd best player on a 24-11 team
I'm going to be following Duke a bit closer than I'd like to this season (yuck) after all that talk about them just buzz sawing anyone and everyone this year.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Hey me too!
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
All this talk about Nebraska football makes me think, there are a lot of similarities between Cronin and Bo Pelini.
Awful cultural fit and just an all around charmless guy who their fans will never love and who feels doomed to just kind of perform okay forever, but that once-elite program will still probably live to regret his inevitable firing.
Wait til Cronin again finds out this year that he's going to have to travel across the country to play conference games.
Yes, felt the same way. Given the choice between Vaaks and Blackwell I would take Vaaks every day and twice on Sunday. Wouldn’t surprise me if we got him cheaper than what Duke paid Blackwell either.
For all the Painter walks on water talk (and I do think he’s one of the best in the business), not sure there’s a coach in the BIG who quietly does more with less than Gard. For all of Purdue’s hype, Wisconsin has had a better conference record than Purdue the last 2 seasons. Gard continually pulls guys off of the transfer portal scrap heap and turns them into 20 PPG scorers. And Wisconsin was Blackwell’s only P4 offer. Wouldn’t surprise me if Purdue falls below Wisconsin in the BIG pecking order in the post Smith Edey era.
All of that to say, I think Gard made Blackwell look better than he really is. Can’t blame the kid for getting paid though.
I didn't think the choice was between Vaaks and Blackwell. Originally we thought we could have them all, but then wasn't it QC and/or Stoj who allegedly waited to commit based on whether we got Blackwell?
QC didn’t wait to commit, but he waited to sign.
I think it was in order: Andrej announces he’s back, report comes out that we’re not getting a visit from Blackwell, Coleman officially signs after waiting 3 weeks.
May or may not be coincidental, but not getting a visit implies we weren’t going to go all in on Blackwell.
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