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32 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
And that leads to my question, who is going to sit next season. Does it even make sense to fill all 15 scholarship players, via the portal, or does Schertz give one or two to a "Walk-On". Robbie went 34 mpg, Jones 35 mpg, and Otieno 31 mpg. We have no idea if Jones or Otieno will adapt to Schertz' system, but assuming they do we are already at a crunch for minutes. We all assume McCrotty will be in the high 20's. Not much PT left. As you state, Schertz won't go 9 deep on his primary rotation. He had the option to go 9 deep this season, but elected to keep Brockhoff on the bench. By my definition, Pikaar's minutes didn't qualify as rotational.
(BTW, did you see who lead the NCAA in minute played? Drake's Stiritz at 39.2 mpg followed by his Drake teammate Mascari at 38.3 mpg. Gibson was 3rd.)
I would be shocked if we filled 15 scholarships.
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39 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
Exactly. Kriisa was a double figure scorer at West Virginia before his disastrous season at Kentucky. If he's willing to move down, he can still make six figures as a starter at a mid-major. Go get that bread, young man.
You are going to die on this point aren't you. Hope someone does a study of those going up vs those going down.
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2 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
people that are second guessing Schertz need to step back and think about style of play and how long it has always taken to make a coaching change. first, let's not forget no matter how disappointed we might be with this past season, it is better than what ford gave us this past season. ford was dependent on finding enough talent to overcome his lack of coaching ability. he was probably the worst coach since crews but at very least ekker. ekker still the worst. with this new professional rules of college basketball ford was the worst choice as we all know that slu will not participate at the level they need to be able to compete at a high level financially. so we need a real practice and game coach that has the forsight to be able to out coach teams.
i dont know about you all, but schertz has shown the ability to do just that. my gosh he won with basically five competent players. with the injuries and defections he had no bench. and even those 5 had deficiencies. you have to admit both swopes and avila did not perform at the levels we expected. swopes was not a point guard and was far to careless with the ball and made bad decisions. avila was no where near the player we saw on tv while at indiana state. the likely problem was their deficiencies we exposed playing against a higher level of athleticism. swope is gone now. no need rehashing him. but avila i hope has seen the light and will work to improve his fitness and strength. his other flaws this last season i wont put all on him. he needs to have better players around him to be able to capture his true skill and uniqueness of being a point center.
the flaws of anya and johnson were all offensive. johnson was hesitant to score and would more times than not disappear on offense. i was frustrated when he did shoot and drive because it demonstrated he was good enough at those things it made we wonder why he didnt attack more.
anya just couldnt shoot. he alone killed the offense. give the other A10 coaches credit they figured out they didnt need to guard him at all as he couldnt be counted on to score unless it was a dunk or an uncontested layup. all they had to do was put there worst defender under the basket to guard against anya at the rim. by doing this the 5 out offense was wounded and what i had envisioned of the season never happened enough. had we had all five true offensive weapons jimerson, swope and avila would have been even better.
no sense talking about our remaining players at season end. the only one imo worth hoping for is mccottrey and he is no where ready to be a basketball player. oh he is a very very good athlete. and most of his good moments were due to him being a superior athlete that plays hard. but he is not a basketball player yet. i think back to jett. he was the same way. however he did have a superior coach that saw the need to make him a basketball player and by the time jett graduated he was a great athlete that was also a great basketball player. will mccottrey become the same? who knows. imo he will be test on how good of a coach schertz is. time will tell. I would love to have the healthy thames. he proved himself in the first few weeks to have become exactly what we hope mccottrey will become. and athlete that was a basketball player. but if he isnt healthy as much as we all want to be humane this is a different time and if he isnt healthy we have to move on. if slu wants to somehow give him his education that would be great, but if he isnt healthy enough to play basketball for 40 minutes a night, let's make the difficult decision to move on and find a complete player to take that roster spot.
i might give warick some time to develop. he is obviously a winner and a gamer. he won bigtime in high school. but i also wouldnt lose sleep if he decided to move on. pikaar did a good job of guarding the inbounds pass at the end of games, but beyond that is has shown he is far away from developing a game that can seriously contribute immediately. imo he needs to transfer down to a program that he can play a lot with a coach that can work with him. if he would want to come back in a year or two so be it. but if not, there are players in the portal that can likely give us immediately what i think he would could contribute now and more. the rest of our roster players both injured or not, arent worth talking about.
its a new game now unfortunately. there is no longer much time to develop players at the mid major level. any program that stuffs there roster with potential is going to find themselves going to spring break before the end of march. i know this is against everything i have ever stood for with the billikens, but i wasnt the one that changed the rules and trends. i definitely hate it, but it is what it is and we cant put the toothpaste back in the tube so we either accept it and adapt or we lose and Schertz has nothing to do with this.
i love what schertz is trying to develop. we got a taste of it in that loyola game before the conference tourney. we could have that every game if he gets the players. but to get that we need money pumped into the program. personally i have no confidence that will happen. our BoT has never demonstrated they will go all in. sure we spent big on ford and now schertz, but now they also have to spend on the roster. if we do not. what we just saw this past season will become the norm. close enough to give us a sliver of hope, but not enough fulfill our dreams.
There is quite a a bit here I disagree with. First Ekker was actually a pretty good game coach. The fact that he ever won a game against some of the best teams in the country with the talent he had was amazing. David Burns was probably the only decent recruit he ever had. Now if you want to criticize recruiting and off the court stuff Yes. Don’t forget his budget was zero. Second . Swope gets an A- in my book. Bad turnovers keeps him from an A. Third. The Amari for the last 6 or so games was a very good basketball player. His ability to to get to the rim and finish was very good. His defensive footwork for a freshman was superior. I think he showed all league potential at the end. Finally Pikaar at 6feet 11 inches with long arms and some mobility has great potential. My biggest criticism of Schertz is he didn’t play him more. Hope he stays because I believe he can contribute as soon as next year.
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1 hour ago, slufanskip said:
If she is on the hot seat, I hope someone is investigating the crack cocaine problem in the SLU athletics department.
???????? Or is the blue font.
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2 hours ago, mbartt33 said:
better players out there
Maybe but do you trade in you bottle of Old Forester 1910 hopping you can find a bottle of Pappy’s
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2 hours ago, mbartt33 said:
better players out there
Maybe. But they aren’t here.
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10 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said:
We're on day 2 of the portal. We can revisit this conversation in a month when more of the players we're recruiting become public knowledge.
Agreed look at it in a month but so far I haven’t seen too many power 5 names on here.
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33 minutes ago, brianstl said:
The bigs aren't going to get hurt. There is still going to be NIL money and collectives. Courts have clearly and consistently ruled that college athletes have the same rights as anyone else in this country to enter into contracts for the use of their name, image and likeness. It is settled law at this point and the House settlement won't be able to change that.
You are forgetting Roe V Wade was settled law. Not trying to be political just pointing out nothing is certain
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Question for 3* I think. Just saw that 37.5% of the starters in the sweet 16 came from lower programs. I believe in the past you told us that the portal would work both ways. That high major recruits who didn't make it at the higher level would move down to the mids and would thrive. You may have some names of this happening but it seems to me it's been players like Casey. I don't think it's been a two way street.
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2 hours ago, TheChosenOne said:
I do agree. But, if we are talking about Duke, it should be noted that 3 of those 4 starters who came from Duke are freshman superstars (and another superstar freshman has started some games as well), so a bit different since that just requires landing those studs vs. retaining them. Basically, also reliant now on big pockets buying their players they just happen to be the elite prep recruits vs. transfers.
I find it interesting that Duke is making the sign freshman work while Kentucky/ Calapari gave it up. We will see if these freshman can win it all.
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From watching both of our portal guys in the preseason and early games I don't think we are losing much. Not sure how the game works but it wouldn't shock me that both were told their NIL money would be limited.
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25 minutes ago, White Pelican said:
I do have to say I saw both wins. The first one, we were way down and had a miraculous 4th quarter as I recall.
Just looked it up. Outscored 'em 34-8 in the 4th. The large Mizzou contingent (including Sophie Cunningham's mother who wasn't shy about yelling) got real quiet near the end.
Had over 6200 in attendance.
I was also there. Have to admit we got some good homecoming from the referees. My justification was this was only fair for the homecoming Missouri got in Columbia during the 3 game series for the men.
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1 hour ago, almaman said:
never heard of Crown Candy turned down
6 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said:I would point out that the 3 best players from Longwood were recruited by Tillett once to Longwood, and then a second time to follow her to SLU. What she hadn’t done was recruit enough replacements and kept the bench players happy enough to stay on the team. If Mia Nicastro and Ashleigh Connor were kept happy enough to stay on the team, and the same with Brooklyn Gray and Marcavia Shavers, this looks to be a whole different and much better team than what we’re facing. She really needs to figure out how to keep players on the bench happy enough to stay. Or maybe the new world of Portal+NIL means they leave anyway.
That’s all water under the bridge at this point. Regardless of how she got here, she now doesn’t have enough players on roster for next season to play games with a reasonable numbers of subs. Her stay here (and future coaching career) depends on how she fixes the roster issue she’s now facing.Question . What kind of NIL would an A-10 woman's player command? Anything?
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Best BLT in town.
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5 minutes ago, Bay Area Billiken said:
Called it! That was the easiest sure bet "upset" pick ever.
You get credit. I didn’t buy it Though Missouri was very good but obviously they couldn’t play slow.
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1 hour ago, cheeseman said:
Why do I get the idea that Coach is working the big donors for NIL not May.
I am not trying to be overly cute but Why?
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30 minutes ago, gobillsgo said:
Doesn’t mean recruiting isn’t happening. There are no rules anymore.
So how do you know who is leaving? I would like to think there is a certain amount of honor that you wouldn’t contact a player until they declared.
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12 minutes ago, gobillsgo said:
Not sure of permissible recruiting time frames, but I want Schertz recruiting the portal as soon as humanly possible. Yes I’m sure he can have some contact while coaching, but the sooner our season is over, the sooner he can focus 100% on recruiting, which we desperately need if we don’t want to regress next season.
Portal doesn’t open until next Monday.
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2 hours ago, brianstl said:
It is great that the guys getting paid to play get to decide what is the best decision for the program. I thought that is what we paid the athletic director to do.
I kinda see your point but how about football players who opt out of bowl games or register for the portal. Why play a game if your players don’t want to as everyone is a free agent.
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1 hour ago, thetorch said:
It wasn't totally in jest.
It most likely would never work but what advantages does the A10 offer over being an independent now? That auto bid?
So who would you play as an independent? Once non con is over how would you get a game. ND had to affiliate with the ACC for those reasons.
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24 minutes ago, ARon said:
Who cares? It’s all about getting to see more games. Even winning a tournament outside the big dance is barely seen as an accomplishment. More time too appreciate Giby and Swope and hopefully more growth for McCottry and Warlick.
So how about a starting lineup of Pakaar Robbie McCottry Warlick and Swope.
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2 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:
i'll watch till all double digit seeds are out. then i couldnt care less. probably watch law and order reruns after that.
Big Bang Theory is more fun.
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2 hours ago, Taj79 said:
Anthony Grant rumored in the mix for the Villanova job.
I had heard he was also considered for the Miami of Florida job. That went to that Loucks guy (I think).
Looking at some of the Dayton tweets the MBM’s want him fired.
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The downside is that it cost the university some money. While not a big deal in the total budget it does cost.