Tough competition for this one but would be a consistent scorer on the offensive end. 6'6 SG who shot 44% from 3 this past season at Toledo.
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Nothing wrong with a 34% shooter from 3. He looks like a scorer, who can get his shot off the dribble. With the offense Iowa State runs, looks like a nice fit.
Looks like a good player to compete with Heise, Touri and Batemon for minutes at 2G.
I missed you ZRF. It's great to have you back on here! I hope TJ recruits someone that can turn their moderately muscular body style into a chiseled body style over a 2 or 3 year time period, like Big Rob did, so you can talk about it on here. You are the best! Don't listen to the haters. Keep going!
People will enter the transfer portal every year. It's TJs job to put together the best roster he can get. We can't on one hand complain about depth and on the other complain we have too many players that might push out non contributors
Lol, ok...... I know plenty of Hawk fans and none of them would have a clue about those 3 players I mentioned.
Agree 100%
Reminds me of a quote from a great Modern Philosopher named Norm: "It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing milk-bone underwear"
The version of college athletics most of us grew up with is a thing of the past. Coaches are paid not only to win, but to win at a high rate and win big! So TJ's job is to find 8-9 players every year that can compete for Big12 titles. So that means guys in spots 9-13 are pretty much expendable unless they show growth.
I feel like we see that approach every year:
- In the fall sign a talented recruiting class based on known open scholarships
- In the spring try to hold on to core players who have shown the ability to be in the core 8 the next fall
- Scour the portal for underappreciated or developing players to meet needs.
In the case of Indrusaitis, it would be interesting to know his situation since he didn't announce he was leaving when the other players did. Was he given the option to come back? At maybe his current or lower NIL amount. Did his agent do some research and find out his NIL value might be more elsewhere than ISU? It's truly is professional sport with annual free agency.
Nail meet head! This is spot on.
I'd be surprised if NIL value had anything to do with Rock and Nojus leaving as I can't imagine either will be highly sought after by power conference programs where they'd make significant money. We're talking about 2 guys that combined for a total of 109 minutes of playing time and 36 points this season. Both are pretty raw in their development at this point and would benefit from finding a smaller school that has playing time available for them to get game experience. I'm not losing sleep over either of them leaving, I wish them the best but this is a classic example of fans getting too emotionally attached to guys at the end of the bench. It's like in FB when there is adversity all the sudden the backup QB or guy on the 2 deep chart at a skill position is better or needs to be playing more. If we knew what was best then we'd all be getting paid millions to coach the team and not here on a message board where we are 18 pages deep in a topic about a guy leaving that barely played this year.
Stiff (and extensive) competition. MAC second team all-conference.
He'll get some "monies" somewhere. A fan can dream!
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It would not surprise me to see Indrusaitis end up at a lower tier Big10 or a Big East or MWC team. He had enough recruiting interest from P5 programs out of high-school that some coach will take a chance that Nojus wasn't a good fit for TJ's system.
If he can't cut it at a Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, Xavier, Marquette or DePaul level program, where he should get a decent NIL package, then he moves on.
Outside of Tamin Lipsey and Milan, all other freshman under TJ will play for another school. This is the way of current NCAA MBB. There is no time to develop when guys want to play right away.
Looking at TJ's transfer recruiting is a pretty good though. Only a couple misses: Enaruna, J Williams (injury), Pav.. It's a pretty good hit rate on transfers
Is there a 3rd commit? ISU basketball tweeted their hype video 30 minutes ago.
Just as one of the Presidents (Dishon) has hit the portal because TJ and the Staff decided he was not worthy of giving him a pay raise. Mainly he has poor feel with his hands. Jefferson needs a dude who can handle his passes and get buckets. From what I understand (Blum on a podcast) said that the staff wants to keep him, but Dishon wants to see what his market is. Moreover, they are not holding a spot for him. My info is about two days old, which is ancient in the portal cycle.
Yeah I think we might’ve kept Dishon as a backup but we obviously wanted to upgrade. Cluff would give us that. Far better post player.
This makes sense to me. He was certainly good enough that we'd want him to stay, but might not want to pay more and you wouldn't want to hold the spot and maybe miss some opportunities while you wait.
