cgeldmacher

Why? What is the point of the restriction. Why shouldn't a kid be able to spend as much time "educating his or herself" and play sports while doing it. Why is there a six year restriction? That's my whole point. Everytime people say, "why is that rule in place, the NCAA can't restrict that," they never consider they ultimate end game of the argument they are spewing. I, personally, think that the NCAA should be able to put a limit on a college career, should be able to prevent unlimited transferring, should be able to limit pay for play, should be able to restrict NIL, but many out there disagree, and they are winning. The fact that those ideas are winning is killing college sports, or will lead to its demise. So, I will double down. If it is unlawful to restrict a player transferring whenever they want and making as much money as they want, then why would it be permissible to restrict how long they can play or whether they can transfer mid season?

Four years or five years doesn't matter. It is still a restriction. If restricting to four years is determined to not be allowed by the courts, five won't be any different. My point is that if that challenge is coming and wins in court, the NCAA won't be able to prevent it by making a five year rule. The same thing is true of the transfer rule. If someone thinks that restricting transferring is unlawful and should be allowed in college sports, then why is that concept restricted to year by year. Why not semester by semester, month by month, week by week, or day by day. You cannot say that transferring should not be restricted, but then arbitrarily apply a one year restrictions from transferring just because that meshes with the college sports season.

Here's a question. All of the arguments that were used to say that players shouldn't be saddle with transfer restrictions and shouldn't be prevented from profiting off of NIL could be used to challenge the four year limit. Why should poor little college athletes that are constantly being raped by the big bad NCAA be restricted to a four year college career? How long before that lawsuit gets filed?

I don't disagree, but his skills would have been highlighted as much in an offense that plays through the big men.

Walsh is an elite shooter. If Schertz can get him to buy into his system, I could see him working out. A guy who can get his own shot, like Parker or, maybe Zyree, are not as necessary in Schertz’s offense. You’ll always take them, but they have to be willing to not play hero ball and play the system.

We also need to remember that we just brought in a coach that has a certain system. In my mind, Yuri would not have fit in Schertz's offense. I'm not sure than anyone who's superskill is slashing to the rim fits Schertz's system if they cannot fill it up from three. Also, Schertz seems to be valuing size.

I think the reference was to handling the press. Majerus proved that you don't need an elite ball handler to break the press. He beat it with proper positioning and passing. When Majerus's guys executed his system to break the press, the ball didn't hit the floor until it was comfortably in our possession in the other team's half court.

James Cromwell, who played Logan Roy's crazy brother, is 6'7". Could be a rim protector if he has some hops.

It's also $20,000 more than thousands of college basketball players made from 1900 through a few years ago

Also, better than Bonner?

I’ll be happy when he commits, but I’m not going to shed a tear if he doesn’t.

If Avila doesn’t want to come here, we’ll get another stretch big who’s in better shape and plays better defense. We’ll be fine. I’m convinced that it was Schertz who made Avila not Avila who made Schertz. I think Robbie would continue to thrive here playing in the same system. If he goes somewhere else, he’ll have a rude awakening when he runs into the high-pressure associated with a big time program and will have different results in a different system.

The single biggest factor in SLU being successful in the new landscape and being able to take advantage of the changes and possibly getting into a better conference as a result is........WINNING. Neither Chris May nor any other AD would be able to get SLU into a better situation if we continued down the road we have the past few years. On the flip side, if Schertz gets us to Dayton level or better of sustained success, it will be that, and not any sort of skills that Chris May has or doesn't have that will get us into that better situation. My point is that hiring the right coach and having the right facilities is what will get us to the next level much more so than any long term strategic plan to make that happen.

Gotcha. Along those lines, I would assume our nutrition specialists, strength and conditioning coach, and facilities will help all of that more than what ISU was able to offer him last year.