Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on Today at 07:06:44 PMYes. He cannot use RGV to fill the empty starting spots.

James
Stevens
Parham

can start. The other 2 starting spots must be filled with Veteran transfers that can lead a team. Use RGV to earn spots moving forward but the rest of our starting lineup and identity must come from the portal. A scoring guard and an actual real center.

You're forgetting about our starting center. 10,000 more hook shots this summer and we're good to go.

Instead of "Blue, Blue !" Shaka could shout
Warriors to encourage the team

Quote from: Small Orange Soda on Today at 05:37:54 PMI think there are levels to abandoning RGV, and my fear is Shaka only does a half measure and uses Zaide's scholarship on a Wrightsil level player. He needs to tell a couple more players that it's time to go, and the highest paid players on the team should be the transfers even if they're only hired guns, because that's what it's gonna take to actually turn this thing around in a meaningful way.

Yes. He cannot use RGV to fill the empty starting spots.

James
Stevens
Parham

can start. The other 2 starting spots must be filled with Veteran transfers that can lead a team. Use RGV to earn spots moving forward but the rest of our starting lineup and identity must come from the portal. A scoring guard and an actual real center.

Quote from: Pakuni on Today at 06:54:49 PM15 scholarship players, 5 of whom will never/rarely see the floor, is a wasteful thinning of NIL resources.

Taking projects means taking players who aren't going to demand much NIL. But I get your point.

Quote from: Dish on Today at 06:41:48 PMCignetti should be mentioned for NFL jobs. Like the Raiders, if they love Mendoza, it'd make sense (to me) to hire Cignetti. I think he'd be an outstanding NFL head coach.

I mentioned this a month or two ago, but if I'm the Bills and I move on from McDermott, Cignetti would be my first call.

Not the Saban is on Cignetti's level, but he struggled in the NFL. 

Actually,  I think he'd succeed at any level.

A frustrating game to watch Monday versus St. John's where they missed way too many bunnies and let a very winnable game slip away.

Good news is the next game out was at one of the worst teams in the league - Xavier.  Despite Skylar Forbes missing the game for illness and MU having over 20 turnovers, they picked up the win today.  MU owned the boards and Vice had a great game with 20 points and 19 rebounds.

A tough Villanova team comes to town Sunday - hoping Forbes is able to play in that game.

Quote from: Elonsmusk on Today at 05:07:16 PMGotcha..so you think he should be fired after this season?

And from SilverWarrior on Dodd's board - Here are Chase's BE numbers so far - a player voted First Team Big East by league coaches.  This Shaka's fault too?  Think we'd have beaten Seton Hall and Georgetown wasn't horrible?

For BE games only......

Chase's Offensive Rating is 69.2% over three games. Among the 38 BE players who have been involved in 20% or more of possessions so far, CR ranks dead last - 38th!!!!!!!

Chase's EFG% is an incredible 24.4%. Among the 46 BE players who have played at least 60% of their team's minutes, CR ranks dead last - 46th!!!!!! No other player is under 30.0%, and the median efg% is 51.7%!!!

Chase's 2-point fg% is an awful 25.0% (7 of 28). He's taken an average of 9.3 2-pointers per game and made an average of 2.3. Of the 72 BE players who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, CR ranks 68th!!!!!

Chase's 3-point fg% is an equally awful 15.4% (2 of 13). Among the 53 BE players who have played 40% of their team's minutes and taken at least 2 treys per game, CR ranks 46th!!!!!!!!

These are just the stats. I'm sure no one on this board expected to see these numbers. The BE coaches sure didn't since they named him pre-season first-team all-BE. I'm equally certain Shaka didn't anticipate this happening.

So if Chase plays better, that makes up for the massive holes elsewhere in the roster? I don't think so.

The problem the last year and a half is much more than Chase Ross and it's wildly unfair to place blame on him.

And yes - I do let him go (IF) he declines a massive change to his roster from this season. Why hang onto him for another season with the same roster only for a marginal improvement on this season and then let him go? That's another wasted year.

Quote from: SOSW on Today at 06:46:38 PM15 players allow for you to take flyers on projects. Nothing wrong with that. But when you over estimate those flyers ability to compete, that's a problem.

15 scholarship players, 5 of whom will never/rarely see the floor, is a wasteful thinning of NIL resources.

Quote from: SOSW on Today at 06:46:38 PM15 players allow for you to take flyers on projects. Nothing wrong with that. But when you over estimate those flyers ability to compete, that's a problem.

Or recruiting 13 flyers, not 2 or 3?

Quote from: mug644 on Today at 06:25:18 PMIt's worth noting that roster limits increased from 13 to 15 for this season. That might help explain why a program might choose to have 3 redshirt players on their roster.

15 players allow for you to take flyers on projects. Nothing wrong with that. But when you over estimate those flyers ability to compete, that's a problem.