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Halftime Show pitch - ZOOperstars vs Principia College. With Kevin Duranteater coming back from injury the ZOOperstars will be heavily favored. The only chance Principia has is to get Shaquille O'Seal in early foul trouble and try to go to work on Yao Flamingo inside.

Who came up with the idea that Otieno can stretch the floor? He made 12 of 32 3s last year. Half of those made shots came in TWO games. The rest of the season he was 6-24. Guess what Anya shot his last season at Brown? 8-30. C'mon folks. Paul's shot mechanics are bad. His passing and ballhandling skills are not as good as Anya. The offense that Anya bogged down Otieno is going to thrive in? All indications to that are a no. Otieno's offensive skills are rim running and O boards. He is not stretching the floor, and he's not equipped to play the trigger as well as Anya is. If we truly need 5 players on the floor who can stretch the floor to play in Schertz's offense, he certainly isn't recruiting to that. Otieno, Anya, & Casey were/are all huge misses in that area. Rewatch the Quinipiac game. Did we guard Otieno on the perimeter? No. Now magically everyone else will now?

Again this hack a Kalu narrative just isn't real. No team fouled him, just to foul him. He shot two fts a game. Anya was forced to play a position he isn't built to play because of our depth lacking in the post. I watched some tape today on him. Didn't see many teams back off on Anya inside the 3 point arc. He was being guarded. Otienno has very similar skills to Anya. He won't be guarded on the perimeter either. Are we benching him halfway through the season?

No reason to play another buy game. We have enough. Why aren't we playing more road games? We could open up a H & H against a worthwhile opponent who could help us in the NET instead of playing a D-3 opponent, and a very bad D-3 team at that. The players on Principia didn't start for their HS teams. I don't like this math of "we play a D-3 opponent because it doesn't count against the NET." Zero is still zero. Schedule a game that helps NET. Why have a meaningless game in season where players could get hurt? I'm still all in on Schertz but the elephant in the room right now is his weak scheduling. We have the talent to be an NCAA team, but we aren't close to having an NCAA schedule.

FWIW what I've heard is Green is an auto starter and big minutes player. The other 2 wing players impressing coming out of early practices are Jones and Sharma. Not much buzz on Brown or Dunlop.

I'd like to see a recruit post a picture of Ed Macauley or Bob Ferry just once.

Sharma, Brown, Green, Dunlop, Jones, McCottry & Thames 3 spots for 7 players. 2 players on that list won't play at all this season and will probably not be on the team past January. Really don't understand the hate for Anya. He shot over 60% from the field last year, 65% from 2. He is a plus rebounder and defender. Yeah he can't shoot FTs. He barely shot 2 FTs a game. He is a starter level A10 big. He can fill in for Avila in a pinch with his passing and ballhandling. He's our 3rd big, which gives us the best and deepest big man rotation in the A10. He's going to play big minutes off the bench. 18+ a game.

We could score 200 points against Principia. You'd have a better game picking fans out of the crowd.

Principia is a horrible option as an exhibition. They wouldn't beat most large area HS teams. We were kicked out of our pod at the Acrisure. We will probably be in the Minnesota, Stanford pod, but there is a chance we get kicked down even lower to one of the mid major ones. Even if we get in the better pod with Minny and Stanford this will mean ZERO Quad 1 games on our schedule. Unacceptable. Its NCAA or bust for this program and we are facing a steep uphill climb to get there.

1. Avila 2. Green 3. Jones 4. Brown 5. Otieno 6. McCottry 7. Sharma 8. Anya 9. Dunlop 10. Kerr

Will this still be valid when SLU joins the Big East in 2052 with Grand Canyon, Siena, & Liberty?

Bonaventure is not in any financial danger and is in fact one of the better managed schools fiscally in the A10. Their small enrollment has been an advantage to them. Davidson is in a similar situation. LaSalle, Fordham, & Loyola are the most in trouble financially. LaSalle is by far the worst, but Fordham is catching up. Loyola's current struggles appear to be manageable. it is a dream scenario but getting LaSalle and Fordham to drop D-1 athletics isn't that far off. I don't think LaSalle makes it to 2030 & Fordham could cut out at any time.

What about those creepy weird mascot looking things that do races and then eat the cheerleaders?

For Women's Soccer MBMs like me nationally she is on the same level as Jayson Tatum was.

They can add all those teams....as soon as we join a different conference.