Yeah, it's a "It's not his fault he sucks" thing.

Quote from: Pakuni on Today at 08:59:40 AMI think you're confusing the role of the professional sports GM with that of a college GM. The latter is not the boss. That's still the head coach. The college GM is basically an administrator who manages NIL and other financial resources, oversees support staff and is the initial recruiter of talent. He's basically taking all those administrative burdens off the coach's hands so the coach can focus on coaching.

By the way, both Pitino and Hurley have GMs.

One new responsibility for GMs is working with compliance to determine the eligibility status of former pros and international kids. It wasn't Scott Drew or any of the coaches who were working on whether James Nnaji was eligible and gathering the information about him, it was the GM.

Quote from: Pakuni on Today at 08:51:47 AMI mean, there's some harm. The money you spend to keep him around 4-5 years is money you can't invest elsewhere.
It's not the end of the world, but going forward, it makes no sense in the NIL era to recruit (and pay) players who need four years of runway. You're investing four or five years of resources into a kid in hopes of getting 1-2 years of quality production from him. Not ideal asset management.

Glad you posted this. "What's the harm in letting a few guys hang around, even if they do not show promise?" College bball is a business, and money that could be used on good prospects should not be spent on those without promise. Business 101. 

Quote from: Dish on February 08, 2026, 11:18:09 PM14 pressures allowed by Will Campbell tonight. Most allowed by any player this season.

Campbell declined to talk to the media postgame.

If you watched his film last year against South Carolina you wouldn't have had him as a first-round pick.

Quote from: 79Warrior on February 08, 2026, 05:48:25 PMSo what do assistant coaches do?? You think a GM is going to tell Danny Hurley or Rick Pitino what to do? No way.

I think you're confusing the role of the professional sports GM with that of a college GM. The latter is not the boss. That's still the head coach. The college GM is basically an administrator who manages NIL and other financial resources, oversees support staff and is the initial recruiter of talent. He's basically taking all those administrative burdens off the coach's hands so the coach can focus on coaching.

By the way, both Pitino and Hurley have GMs.

Quote from: BM1090 on Today at 12:32:12 AMI'd still like to keep Clark. There's something there. I think he's two years away, but no harm in keeping him as a 3rd center and letting him develop. They just need to upgrade the spots in front of him.

I mean, there's some harm. The money you spend to keep him around 4-5 years is money you can't invest elsewhere.
It's not the end of the world, but going forward, it makes no sense in the NIL era to recruit (and pay) players who need four years of runway. You're investing four or five years of resources into a kid in hopes of getting 1-2 years of quality production from him. Not ideal asset management.

Quote from: 79Warrior on February 08, 2026, 05:48:25 PMSo what do assistant coaches do?? You think a GM is going to tell Danny Hurley or Rick Pitino what to do? No way.

What to the assistants do? They coach first. If you reread my post you'll notice that I said after the GM gets guys on the front porch it's up to the COACHES to get the kid in the door. The GM does the leg work to ID guys and get them interested in MU, then turns things over to the coaches to close the deal. Now that players have agents it's the GM who is dealing with them to determine the level of interest and the demands of their clients to see if both parties are interested in taking the next step.

The GM is also scouting other programs to identify likely portal candidates, especially from the mid and low major levels. Do you really think Nevada Smith is taking time out of coaching and scouting prep to watch a WCC or Southland game to see which players will likely enter the portal and could fit a need at MU?

Quote from: tower912 on February 06, 2026, 03:58:11 PMI think Bizjack finishes his career at Butler.   If not, he returns home to a Texas school.

Bizjack put his name into the portal after his freshman year and didn't get the offers he thought he would so he went back to Butler. He's proven himself to be a high major player, so I could see a Big 12 team looking for some depth at the combo guard position and throwing more money at him than Butler can.

A dominant defensive performance and an offense that did just enough and never made the big mistake. 
Old school.

Quote from: MuggsyB on February 08, 2026, 10:14:48 PMSometimes diminutive people get the last laugh.  Walker is 5'7.  But I agree with you that several defensive players probably deserved the award.  It also was egregious that not a single defensive player was interviewed during the trophy presentation. 

I'm glad that you're glad that a little guy won MVP Muggsy. 

I read a caption to a story that his father had never seen him in an NFL game before but didn't read the story. Glad Seattle won, but as much as I like a strong defensive showing in both bball and FB, three quarters of the game was a bit of a yawner.