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Based on all the players they have returning and the addition of a former player who averaged 15 points a game for them 2 years ago, Santa Clara will be a preseason top 50 team. It's not a sexy matchup but it is a potential Quad 1 opportunity.
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1 hour ago, Westy03 said:
Tournament or bust should be the expectation every single year. Anything less and we are settling.
MBM expectations are what they are. We always think we're better than where we're picked in the preseason. That's why we're MBMs.
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19 minutes ago, thetorch said:
Goodwin's 3rd season as a pro is over.
In 40 games with Phoenix Goodwin averaged 5 ppg, 3 boards, 2 assists, shot .389 from the field and 28% from 3 while playing 14 minutes a game.
His best games for the Suns came in late November and early December. He had a 14/7/5 against the Knicks and a 16/5/6 game against GS. Goodwin got regular minutes well into December, then once the Holidays hit he started seeing more and more DNPs until he was traded away to the Nets. After his release by the Nets he was signed to a 10 day by the Grizlies which they then turned into a 2 way contract for the remainder of the season.
In 17 games with the Grizzlies Goodwin had 12 starts and averaged 29 mpg, with 10 ppg, 8 rebounds, and 4.5 assists. His %s took a hit shooting only .350 from the field and 63% from the line. He also had 1.5 steals a game.
His best games for Memphis was a 13/12/7 performance in a win over Milwaukee, a 10/19/5 game in a loss to the Spurs, and a 23/17/4 game against the Lakers.
Goodwin's contract is over. He is now a restricted Free Agent. Memphis can make him a qualifying offer and then has the right to match any other offer from a team or they can renounce his rights.
Currently Memphis owes over 150 million in player salaries next year, while also having one of the top picks in the draft. They have a logjam of players at the wing and guard position. It appears unlikely that Memphis will be resigning Goodwin at this point. Most likely his rights will be renounced and he will enter free agency.
Even with the best coaching in the world Goodwin is still basically the same player he was when he left here. Free throw percentage is just a little higher. And we know he's put a lot of work into his game.
We're always looking for somebody to blame when players don't make dramatic improvements but dramatic improvements are the exceptions, not the norm.
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I think the addition of two rather than four returning starters extends the honeymoon period for Coach Schertz. Four returning starters plus Jimerson is a preseason top 25 team because of all the known factors. Expectations by local and national media would be through the roof.
Two returning starters starters plus Jimerson plus a couple of solid pieces from the portal is a team that will be projected as top four in the A10 by the preseason outlets. Two very different situations.
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33 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Guess you haven't had ESPN for the last 30 years.
Big schools, conferences were already driving everything, NIL or not.
I have. A handful of mid-majors have struck gold. Everybody else has been struggling in vain. Now we've finally reached the point where the big boys officially kick us out of the club.
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10 minutes ago, TheChosenOne said:
FedEx announced a 5 year $5 million per year NIL deal with Memphis athletics. That seemed like a logical next step in all of this. Again, we are still in the arms race phase of NIL. While I assume at some point this all slows/normalizes/formalizes, that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Memphis has a football team. I agree that all the football teams are in the nil race. I don't agree that everybody else should be.
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4 minutes ago, slu72 said:
While I agree, the reality is many colleges are identified by their sports program’s achievements and not their academic or scientific breakthroughs. The Ivies are considered bastions of academics and knowledge, but when you mention say Alabama the majority of people think of FB and not any scientific, medical, or academic achievements the school might have earned over the years. The fact is people aren’t buying season tickets to watch scientists hunkered over their microscopes in a lab.
I'd estimate that less than 10% of D1 programs are defined by the greatness of their sports teams. So that 10% should define how the other 90% operate?
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I stated elsewhere that hiring Corey Tate was the best decision Coach Ford made during his tenure. Tate has good relationships with the top local high school players and top juco players in the region. I'm pleased that Coach Schertz recognized his value and retained him.
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17 minutes ago, Adman said:
Essentially, his point is that neither SLU nor Mizzou are currently recruiting Zyree, a point guard here in STL, who’s rumored to be better than his brother Yuri. Travis was. But apparently Josh isn’t, or isn’t yet.
It could certainly work out like that. Yuri's passing ability was so elite, it was kind of hard to overlook. With Zyree it's his scoring ability that's elite and college coaches are afraid it may not translate given his size and good, but not great, athletic ability.
If most of that scoring does translate, Zyree would definitely be the more well-rounded point guard. His passing isn't Yuri-level but it's a cut above anybody else in the local 2025 class.
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Zyree is an example of a high school player who will not get as much attention as he would have prior to the portal era. He's a 6 foot combo guard who can score in a variety of ways. He has good athleticism but since he plays at his own pace it's hard to assess it.
That's the kind of player that will be prioritized by some MVC team while higher level programs take a wait and see approach. If he becomes a star they can always grab him in the portal. If he doesn't then, they've lost nothing.
Luke Walsh is in the same boat. He's a little bigger, a little better shooter but not as polished a ball handler or passer as Zyree.
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10 minutes ago, thetorch said:
Again those guys were recruited 6-8 years ago.
Ford's staff had zero contact with locals the last 18 months. Can't reward Tate with a staff position when he's been sleeping on job for a year +.
Our leading scorer this year, a Coach Tate recruit, is in the portal and is receiving high major interest. C'mon now. I know some people need to burn the Coach Ford era to the ground for closure but hiring Coach Tate was probably the best decision of his tenure.
In any case, Coach Schertz has already had success recruiting the Midwest. I have no doubt that he will bring in local players from time to time as he develops relationships in the area.
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7 hours ago, TRN said:
It doesn’t matter in 2024 and beyond. High school recruits are not useful unless they play immediately. With the portal everyone can get more college ready players.
Three of those four players played immediately. And Tate got more than high school players, he got high scoring jucos as well.
Tate did the best job of anybody on the staff at recruiting. But Coach Schertz has his own guys. Which is absolutely understandable.
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1 hour ago, TheA_Bomb said:
This is wild speculation. Maybe he's $50k and throw in some Del Taco gift cards.
Try 20K. From what I've read, NIL doesn't operate on a continuum. The stars and 4 star recruits make $100K and up. The bench players, especially at the mid-major level, get peanuts.
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2 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
This not sustainable if it keeps going up by these significant numbers.
I think it's intentional. The P5 boosters are trying to price everybody else out of the market.
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27 minutes ago, Slowry said:
I really think Avila is mostly a product of the offense Schertz runs. He’s a talented player for sure. But he won’t fair near as well in a different offense. One of the great things about Schwartz’s offense is shortening the floor for the big guy. Avila isn’t fast. Running back down the court from the 3-point line is a lot different than starting under the basket. I hope he understands this.
If you have a player that makes everybody else better, you should build the team offense around that player. Schertz has been doing that ever since he was in Division 2. Most coaches are not flexible enough to pull that off. So I agree, a player like Avila looks like a superstar in one kind of offense and a role player in another.
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7 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
If Chris May sticks around we're very likely to miss the opportunities of the continuing changing landscape of college sports. More changes are coming and the SLU AD was not prepared for the telegraphed changes everyone saw coming the last few years. So why would we expect anything different now?
The ACC is about to implode setting off more conference changes. The SEC/B10 partnership may cause a schism with the NCAA and develop affect basketball only schools. NLRB rulings and other court rulings may bring changes in athletes status.
Lacking leadership and vision makes it hard to navigate these complex situations. Lacking organizational skills makes it hard to run an organization effectively during times of change. The skill of sucking up to rich donors, raising funds and spending their money is just one part of the skillset needed to be a successful AD.
"Grumpy Old Men" is your attempt to minimize the importance of those criticizing the lack of effective leadership. Some of us want SLU to be relevant, we haven't been for the last 10 years directly due to May. One hire, a good X post and press conference, doesn't mean you can navigate the upcoming difficult changes. Concerns about these changes are at the fore front of schools with much more money/influence than SLU, see the B12 doing everything they can to stay relevant. Can we claim SLU and the A10 is doing the same?
The young fans who will experience all the winning over the next 3-5 years won't even know what we're talking about.
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If Chris May sticks around, new SLU fans will know him as the AD in Golden age of SLU sports, where all the major sports teams were winning. Meanwhile in MBM land we will still be talking about his social media failures and overpaying Travis Ford. We will become the grumpy old men. It is our destiny.
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McCottry is 6-5, a good passer, can create his own shot, is an above average rebounder and an active defender. At worst, he's an asset on the scout team.
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25 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said:
Of course, all there is right now is optimism. I mean we're talking about a range of outcomes that puts us anywhere from maybe 20th to 70th in the nation depending on who we get, player improvement, etc. Last season I was dreaming about a high side of 130ish and we ended up at 199, so the low end of possibilities may have been a little below that.
Coach Schertz's team just finished runner-up in the NIT. They were the number one seed. If four starters end up in Billiken uniforms, that's something like 80% of the scoring returning. Add Jimerson or a significant portal player and that roster is even more talented than the one Coach Schertz had at ISU.
We will have more "knowns" than just about any mid-major in the country. You've seen enough previews to know that translates into a preseason top 25 ranking. This is the toughest position there is in coaching. To win when everybody expects you to.
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"You can be demanding without being demeaning." I understand Schertz has great respect for Majerus's basketball mind but he has a very different outlook on how to get the most out of players. It more closely aligns with my own point of view.
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3 minutes ago, ACE said:
I really don't care about May either way, but if he was good enough for Majerus, and he's good enough for Doc Chaifetz and good enough for Schertz to come here - I'm gonna say he's good enough for me. I think many overestimate his importance in the grand scheme.
I've been saying that for years. We've got about 30 years of evidence that demonstrates the old boy network runs the show regardless of who the AD is.
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21 minutes ago, ACE said:
Santos is one of the very few recent P6 transfers coming into the A-10 and having success. There used to be more. The days of Bess and Okoro are becoming increasingly rare. Most of the other successful transfers coming into the A-10, as you point out are not former P6 players... and that was my point. The same story is playing out in the MVC and other mid major conferences.
I can simply counter with the starting 5 from Final Four team Alabama - every one started his career at a low to mid major. But wait, there's much more - Lance Jones at Purdue and Domansk at Illinois. UConn's top two scorers began at non P6 schools. NC State's leading scorer began his career in the MVC. The leading scorers from 3 of the Final Four teams began at non P6 schools.
Four of 5 Bonaventure's starters transferred to P6 schools not long ago - the transfers they had coming in were not of the same quality - a couple of former P6 players, but the rest were former low major players. Even blue blood Kentucky has had several former A-10 players and an MVC player in recent years.
I could go on and on. I really wish it was true that the talent transferring down would equal the talent transferring up. There's a reason most of the P6 schools were very supportive of free agency ... it wasn't to be nice and give the kids more "freedom."
The situation where the P6 has everybody beat is the post-grad market. If a player has already graduated from a mid-major school I don't think it's fair to expect him to come back when he has much better options.
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14 minutes ago, willie said:
While you gave me a couple of names it’s still a fairly small sample. Seems like more lateral transfers
You would expect more lateral transfers than anything else. There are lot more teams outside of the P6 than there are inside of it.
However, don't you think it's strange that folks hyper-focus on the starters who transfer up but ignore the guys who transfer down and put up numbers right away? If the lowly Billikens had such a player, then I can think you can safely assume every team in the conference has at least one. I pointed out the all-conference players because those are the ones that most people are interested in.
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