Does she get any NIL money?
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
And I genuinely believe that gives guys a connection to the school and to each other that gives us an edge and takes some of the free agent mercenary aspect away.
Portaling is like JUCO basketball. New teams every year. As someone that watched a lot of Vincennes and Wabash Valley growing up, it is up and down.
More likely at the D1 level if you portal every year with a bunch of new starters best case you wind up like Iowa State under Hoiberg. Or Musselman when he was at Nevada.
I think ideally you want to get guys like Davis and Boswell for multiple years that are also proven players. Way less risky than freshman. Storr I think this staff can use also. Some of the other guys mentioned here I’m not very high on if they are just 1 year dudes
This is one of the reasons I dislike BU. Seems like he blows a lot of hot smoke at recruits and their family with empty promises knowing full well he has a bankroll to make that go away. It's just smarmy to me. It would be hard to commit to play for a guy who will go shopping to replace me.
This surprises me.
Seth Trimble, Menomonee Falls , Point Guard
Played for Coach Brian Hallenbeck at Menomonee Falls High School • Scored more than 2,000 career points • Gatorade Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball in...247sports.com
Can’t be 6th man if you are starting.
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
Ayo, Kofi, Giorgi off the top of my head.
A lottery pick because of his athleticism and defense.
I love that aside from Maddox and Hill most of our primary targets are multi year guys. If we can land Maddox, Hill, Storr, Boswell and Booth to go along with Davis think we’ve got a chance to be very good next year and special in 2 years.
So you are, in fact, thinking Castle and Harris are comparable.
I think because he no longer can compete with Jaden Bradley. Bet Jaden takes over the point at AZ next year. We'll see though.
Maybe Castle should redshirt next year to get better offensively then..
Also I’ll mention Austin Hutcherson tore it up in practice too..
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The way I look at it, 1st season was a disaster. 2nd season good until giant 30pt dump. See how the rubber match 3rd year turns out in the portalling scabs Era. At some point this will be college basketball's juiced ball era
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Because A) revisionist history
B) people like shiny new objects and forget about the dumpster fire they caused in 2023.
B) people like shiny new objects and forget about the dumpster fire they caused in 2023.
We need to slow the hype on Sincere. Very similar to the hype we used to see with Goode. Incredibly hyperbolic.
This is my knock against BU. All gas no breaks. Only 1 ball. 1 person gets to put said ball in the hoop at a time.
Defense, rebounds,ahd assists used to get playing time.
Even so, he started at PG on a team that was top 10 in the country the majority of the year. I’ll take, along with some pretty impressive stats.
Will we be interested if Jaden Schutt enters the portal??
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
How did you explain the couple-in-conflict-in-bed GIFs?My two year old daughter was looking through the forum with me. Thank you for making her day as she loves Eyeore (sp?).
hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
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"Daddy, what is that screaming girl yelling?"
Lol. You assume I have some "way" that is opposed to some "way" that you have. I assure you that you have no clue how I'd go about navigating this because I don't have a clue myself.
I merely point out a fact and because you're afraid of its implications you attack me instead of addressing the fact.
I think people in this day and age just want immediate gratification, have infinite expectations, and only see things in black and white. If someone isn't the best at everything they're trash and onto the next. Now yes, that's tongue in cheek, but I also think that many in this fanbase (and fans of college sports in general) just don't really have the time or patience anymore for underclassmen to develop, and don't really realize how extremely abnormal it is for an underclassman to come in and light the B10 on absolute fire. And in some ways it makes sense as you used to look at a B10 team's redshirt senior starter who would tear it up and say, man I can't wait until this kid graduates or I can't wait until we have a 5th year starter of our own, but now your 5th year senior theoretically never graduates because your team can just buy a new one in the portal. Instant gratification. No development needed. So an underclassman can be phenomenal at some things but will still have holes in their game, because underclassman while that shiny 5th year senior is older, bigger, more experienced, and has fixed many of those holes.
And Ty is one of those players who unfortunately doesn't fit that instant gratification doesn't have major holes in his game 5th year senior, i.e. "trash" and "fully replaceable". But the question that still is up in the air is what happens if one of those underclassmen do develop and fix those holes in their game to supplement the things they are truly elite at? What if Ty, so pissed off about how he performed against UCONN, spends the whole summer challenging himself to get better body control, take contact, finish at the rim, and even develop a baby hook or short jumper? Then suddenly Ty's that guy every single team is salivating over to portal to them whose skillset isn't something all that easily replaceable.
And one final thing, Gritty has said some things about this as well, but team chemistry, maturity, and experience with a coach and systems are all intangibles but they do have importance and can cause unforeseen issues. I should perform a statistical analysis on it, but overall, 1st year transfers do tend to be a lot more of a mixed bag than transfers in their 2nd year, even at the same age. Familiarity does seem to have a significant role. That doesn't mean you shouldn't aggressively pursue the portal, but it does suggest balancing that with some development of promising young recruits.
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