3star_recruit

Thanks for the correction on the timeline. I should have said 9 months instead of 6 months. The greater overall point of my post was that it's never too early to think about how you're going to replace your coach when the need arises. Shout out to MMP for bringing Schertz to our attention.

I know you're getting teased for putting the cart before the horse, but this is probably how an AD thinks. He has to have a plan A, B and C. Hell, the hiring of Schertz himself was a backup strategy. He wasn't on any MBM's list of candidates six months ago.

You're getting that top 150 kid in the portal after he sits a year at a high major anyway, and probably at a cheaper price. So what's the point of getting him out of high school?

I think the portal just pushes the recruiting window out a year. Instead of rolling the dice on a mid major recruit out of high school, mid major schools will be recruiting proven low major freshmen or high major freshmen who haven't been getting playing time.

These are the kinds of offers that high school kids outside the top 300 receive in the portal era. You can always get a more highly regarded player who has warmed the bench for a year at a high major.

Waheed thanked every head coach and university that he received an offer from.

I agree. But gold has more prestige and symbolic value than copper. That's what the P5s are paying an arm and a leg for. We're recruiting at the copper level of the transfer market. If they put up gaudy stats at our level, the P5s will recognize them as gold and bid accordingly.

Based on their modest accomplishments coming in I'd say Conwell and Swope were copper that Schertz helped transmutate into gold.

The only thing making the Lakers relevant is Lebron. Maybe Hurley could marginally improve their standing but Lebron has at best 2 years left as a top 10 player. Then the Lakers will be in full rebuild mode, as they were in the final Kobe years. Sure, Hurley could double his salary for a few years but he would also triple his stress.

Coach Tillett is a women's empowerment guru who happens to be a basketball coach. Unusual arcs to her seasons but you can't argue with the results.

The weights correspond to the time the player was entered in the database. So if the entry was made two years ago, it's probably no longer accurate.

The days of "best player available" are over. Coach Schertz wanted a backup big man, scouted the terrain and got him.

Excellent points. Every coach refers to positions when it comes to defense because they have to. You need to have the personnel to defend traditional position players even if your personnel doesn't function the same way on offense.

When we learned that we would get two starters from last year's team instead of four, I predicted that the preseason outlets would rank us as a top four A10 team. Four returning starters plus Jimerson would have made us a top 25 team in eyes of the media. That's how the preseason Olympics works. It's largely based on returning a bunch of starters and high profile recruiting classes. We have neither. The boosters have invested in long-term program-building rather than gambling on a quick fix. Schertz's track record at D2 and D1 suggest that we will be a top two conference team within 3 years. If all the pieces magically blend together in a single year, awesome.

I really like Osobor as a college player also but I'm not sure he will make a total of $2 million in his post-college career. The math ain't mathing on this investment. But these are rich people problems. If I was rich, I suspect I would also throw away money on dumb sh$t.