There's a new sheriff in town. Going off the Weber/Groce history makes no sense at all to me. They talked the talk about giving guys PT, but both preferred to keep the best players on the court to the detriment of guys who may have earned some time but weren't generally at the level of the starters.
Underwood runs a VERY different system, and played 10 guys last year in double digit minutes. I won't argue we go 10 deep this year, but I'm expecting 9, and could make a case for 10 (no beach house though). Underwood likes to play a relentless, up tempo style. He builds teams for it. We may not be there this year, but he's going to try to have a deeper rotation than we've had for a long time.
I'm not going off of Groce/Weber history. I'm going of college basketball history in general. It's unlikely we have a 10 man rotation. Players seperate themselves and coaches want to keep the best players on the court as long as possible.
Overall he might have played 10 guys double digit minutes, but a lot of those minutes might have been against cupcakes and expirementation with a new team he is unfamiliar with. What did he do late in the season when I'm assuming he settled on a rotation? Here are the last 4 games of last season...
@ Iowa St - 7 players with 10+ min
vs. KU - 7 players with 10+ min
vs. Iowa St - 8 players with 10+ min
vs. Michigan - 6 players with 10+ min
We probably will see many lineups early in the season, but how fast can BU find those core guys that need to be in the game? That was probably Groce's biggest weakness. The sooner BU can cut the rotation down to 7 or 8 guys with a 9th thrown in sporadically, the more games we will win IMO.