Our Future

[Nukem2]

Stevens, James, and Parham are the core of a good NCAA tourney team. Need at least a good big to go with them.

A big, and a knock down 3-point shooter/defender and that's a top 10 team.

Sheek and Nash for starters. Need more.

[muwarrior69]

Crean should come back and be the GM. He and Shaka have an awesome relationship. Would be cool.

That or AD?

[rgoode57]

Just adding a big man from the portal next year is not going to do the trick. As good as James and Stevens have been as freshmen, they are wildly inconsistent - as freshmen tend to be. One really good game followed by a so-so game. And, as good as Parham seems to be, he has yet to put a complete game together - tends to disappear in second half. So, I am not sure just adding a really solid big is enough. For instance, who is the back-up point guard? Jones? Not sure he will stay. Who spells Parham? A freshman? Unfortunately, I think the talent is way too thin and too young to think that one good portal addition will turn things around.

[Johnny B]

I worry that convincing home wins against short-handed Creighton and Butler squads will convince Shaka RGV is working, nothing needs to change, and he'll go find Cadin/Clark 2.0 in the summer to fill Zaide's scholarship.

Shakas not dumb. If he's going to the portal he's going after a proven guy imo. He ain't brining in a back up from the horizon league.

[mileskishnish72]

We'll add more than one transfer.  Shaka talks RGV to the public, but he is also way too competitive to let another season like this happen.

I dont expect more than two additons though, maybe a third at most, but there is no need to flip the entire roster like some programs do.  The freshman and sophomore classes are legit, just need a starting guard/wing and starting big to supplement them and we're back in the tournament next year.

The dead wood needs to go to make room. I've got three good candidates.