If you had $100 in chips how much you laying down on TSJ, Clark, Miller?
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Possibly they realize that Tough Love is exactly that! And you don't receive it if your coach doesn't care. His job is to help them grow as players and people and what better way to show it than continuing contact even after the disappointment of a transfer.
Just a possibility. They really like him though.
70….if it was just TSJ and Clark….95
Coach fired and school going to be penalized.
No. Just depends on open spots. Miller is definitely contingent on people leaving.
Maybe it was purely financial. This happened before NIL, so maybe he wasn't getting any kickbacks at Illinois. Going to LSU was going to help his family financially under the table. Now with NIL in affect, he can come back and play for the team he loves and still help his family financially...
I posted those tweets to address this comment "We don't really know much of anything about any mental/emotional damage via social media. Just a bunch of speculation and narrative-building."
That isn't speculation and narrative building. That's straight from Trent. The rest of it ("sole reason a player would transfer") is a conversation you are having in your own head, it isn't what I've ever stated. He could really just want to retire from basketball because he likes to juggle and wants to be a street performer.
But it's hard to believe when the team leader feels it necessary to chime in, several times, about fans attacking players on the team, that it hasn't had some impact. Inferring that being treated like crap by some of your own 'fans' isn't an incentive to stay seems pretty plausible.
Quick someone get on social media....we need a schollie Stat! /s
That makes sense. Waiting on the curbelo decommit first.
I already said this a few times, but:
I don't disagree that it happens. I do disagree we should speculate that it is the reason he would transfer. If I did think that is the reason he is transferring, that would be "speculation" and "narrative building", since we really don't know the reason he is transferring.
I don't think it is necessarily that mama needs new shoes. When I was 17 or 18 years old, there was no one on the planet that I loved and respected more than my mom. And if she wanted me to transfer because she felt like I wasn't getting a fair shake, (whether true or not), I would have left in a heartbeat. Maybe wrong, maybe right, I don't know. Just how I was raised.
TSJ is a Mac Fire kid right? I thought we lost out pipeline to MIF?
Hope he does come back. He showed some flashes (Minnesota is the game that sticks out the most) of aggressiveness on offense that would bode well for his return. The defense was there all year long, but it took awhile to see him get into his bag on the offensive end. I'm excited to see what happens.
It’s not like he didn’t score! He averaged 8 as a Frosh on a team with one AA and another future AA. They didn’t run plays for him and he was always the 3rd or 4th option. He mostly sat in the corner waiting for the catch and shoot 3. Which he converted at a decent clip.(34%ish…correct me if I’m wrong) He was considered one of the absolute top players in the portal last year. Other than the injury, there are really no unanswered questions with Adam. He is a stud.
I don't disagree at all. My point was more that he had/has the ability to do alot more on offense than was typically shown. And I absolutely agree on the 'why'. I think there's a ton of untapped upside if he does come back.
We fortunately got better...they need us too.
That all makes sense, but the fans who are negative and crossing the line aren’t going to say, “Gee, I never thought about it like that. Thanks, I’ll stop.” Haters are gonna hate, and idiots are gonna idiot.
Yep...committed to Memphis, switched to Cal, then Kansas, DePaul and now Miami
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