That's funny, I thought he played Niang and Nader a lot.
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That's funny, I thought he played Niang and Nader a lot.
Except nobody would have been recruiting him early enough to sign in November. During the November signing period, he would have only played in a few games at Indian Hills. Which makes this commitment even more impressive. He's only played about 15 games in his career.
I guess I should clarify what I meant with this. There are numerous ways to rate a program, and different time periods to do it over (i.e., UCLA is definitely an all-time power in college basketball, but not so much in the past ten years compared to, say, Kentucky or Kansas have been, depending on your period of reference). I just went and glanced at the SRS ratings (a team rating based on point differential and opponents' point differential, so ratings based on W-L, margin of victory, and strength of schedule) from here...
http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/
Going back 6-7 years since the start of the Fred era in Ames, well...
We have been in the 13-20 range, and above 16 since the Kane-Ejim year. SRS actually likes this team quite a bit given its losses were all very close save Iowa, though I would imagine this will start to come down with some hard Big 12 games coming. That rating is very incomplete for this year with the unfinished season we have yet.
Compared to...
Looks rather similar to me. Yes, Xavier has had a little more luck in the tournament than we have, but, come on, the NCAA tournament is kind of random once you get there. You have single elimination games between teenagers playing in weird gyms, in front of weird crowds, with weird officials. Silly stuff happens -- that is the fun of it. This is a better measure of overall program quality over the course of a long season.
And it says that... we're pretty even. We might be a little ahead on this measure. We're both a top tier school in a good power conference, though not *the* power in the conference ('Nova and KU, of course, unfortunately with the second one). We're both likely to make the tournament over this era, maybe win a few games, and definitely give the Top 10 some scares and even come away with some victories, more often than not, when we have a shot.
Hence my comparison that we're similar/a little better than them, on this metric.
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That's the sad part. We replaced him with someone who will never do anything here. If early reports are correct, anyway.
The early reports where people pull **** out of their ass. You haven't read those early reports?
How do you know Ernst would have done anything here?
A paysite had info from a Tennessee teammate claiming he was one of softest players on the team. While it's TBD what he'll accomplish at ISU, I wouldn't say citing a former teammate is "pulling **** out of ass"
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The post I read was from a Tennessee pay site admin citing a Tennessee player. If Chris Williams had a post citing someone on this ISU team, some people would take it as word of God.
He's plays soft and has had a bad attitude in the past. People can change I suppose.
I don't. Nobody is a sure thing, I just think Ernst could have turned into a good player and I don't think Kasongo will do anything here. Just my opinion though.
I was confused by keeping Carter and dumping Ernst from the get go. Everyone on here that expressed confussion was sort of blasted as thinking "they knew more than the coaches".
Well, Ernst just got an offer from a top 25 program that as has been mentioned in this thread has had substaintally more success over the last 10 years than ISU. I still bums me out Ernst left.
Well, Ernst just got an offer from a top 25 program that as has been mentioned in this thread has had substaintally more success over the last 10 years than ISU. I still bums me out Ernst left.
I mean Holden only averages 1 more ppg than our freshman guard Long. Our bigs aren't that amazing this year. Young is still raw, Holden was a miss, and Bowie is a toss up. I would put more stock into our bigs aren't that good instead of him not trusting them.
Didn't CW say something very bold like Holden would be better than McKay? I thought someone asked him that during mailbag Monday.
Actually I wouldn't and people probably shouldn't.
