Kolek planning to go pro
It is hard to find quality scout team players. Many quit after a year or two. I think a component of the Badgers success over the years has been their ability to retain their preferred walk on by giving them scholarships at some point. Gardiner is now 6-7 230 ,and clearly plays an effective role in practice. So the coaches feel it is worth giving a scholarship to keep him around.
I think it's probably more likely that they realize they almost certainly won't fill 2 scholarships in season with better players, so they want to reward the walk on for his hard work. I don't think Wojo and staff are losing sleep worrying about how to ensure Gardiner is going to stay on the roster, and what they'll do if he quits the team.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
I'd just rather fill those spots with guys that can turn into something or fill a role. That's it. We're a couple injuries away from being super duper thin again with only 10 eligible scholarship players.
You say this every year. They aren't going to fill scholarships for the sake of filling them, especially with unknowns affecting roster size, transfers, etc.They aren't going to take two mid year transfers. Throwing one at a walk-on is not worthy of concern.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
This. And building on it, if somehow the stars align and there are two mid-season transfers that we take, would there really be much backlash about a former walk-on getting buzz cut? It might not be great optics, but it's not like it's going to effect recruiting the way the Newbill situation did.
And I am going to keep saying it. Burning scholarships is stupid way to run a program. Disagree if you like. I will die on that hill.
Bitching about something that has not really been a problem is a hill you can die on.Congrats.
Scholarships can't be filled for a partial year. So even if someone leaves mid year, they can't use that scholarship for half a year.Regardless, they aren't taking two mid year transfers. I can't think of a circumstance when that has happened previously. And while I am certain it has happened somewhere at sometime, it's not a scenario worthy of planning for.
Didn't we take Froling after Traci left? Or did we already have another scholarship available, or do I have my timeline screwed up?
lol, not been a problem? Marquette hasn't won an NCAA game since 2013. I'd say that's a problem. 51-57 in Big East games in Wojo's tenure. I'd say that's a problem. Not winning a single NCAA game with 4 years of Markus Howard? Again, a problem.But feel free to continue to believe Wojo and Co can do no wrong if you'd like!!!
Had an opening. Each of your 13 scholarships can only be used 1x per year.
Duke won a national title with 8 scholarship players in 2015.Clearly, the more scholarship players you have, the better your team will be.Imagine how good Duke could've been if they didn't waste 5 scholarships that year. They could've actually won something.
Duke's 2015 team had 10 scholarship players, 8 of which went on to play in the NBA, and 4 of which were High School All-Americans.Jahlil Okafor Quinn Cook Justise Winslow Tyus Jones Amile Jefferson Matt Jones Grayson Allen Rasheed SulaimonMarshall PlumleeIf we had a roster like that, we wouldn't need to look at mid-season transfers.
That's a list of nine, and Sulaimon left the team midseason. So they had 8 scholarship players and won a National Title.I agree, if we had a roster like that we wouldn't need to look at mid-season transfers, but we probably would look at them given that they'd sit out and then be available for the following season.But that's all the point. You don't need 13 scholarship basketball players. You need very good players that fit your program. You don't just take any guy who will accept your scholarship just to fill 13 scholarships because you're allowed to.
That's not the point. J5 thinks we should just take bodies to get up to 13 scholarship players every year and not waste scholarships on rewarding a walk-on. He makes the same complaint every year, even though it's not been a problem.
agreed! ...and I forecast a 4-6 start to this season with blowout losses to UCLA and RED. Hence, insignificant mediocrity continues.
Right. None of those are fixed by filling all scholarships, which was the context of the conversation.