Parker Stewart commits to Pitt
- Thread starter ChrisMWilliams
- Start date
I am a Prohm homer and even I will admit this spring has been a...
Eh. Maybe that is too much. I just think that GIF is funny.
Eh. Maybe that is too much. I just think that GIF is funny.
So what does that one picture of Pittsburgh have over our great town of Ames?
Maybe don't answer that.
PT, PT, PT
PItt had a boatload of guys leave. I'd rather have that type of thing not happen and miss on a guy like this.
PItt had a boatload of guys leave. I'd rather have that type of thing not happen and miss on a guy like this.
9 scholarship players it is next year.
-Three freshman
-Two guys (Brase, Long) coming off surgeries with 1 of them yet to contribute at this level. (I think he can though. Jakolby)
-One guy trying to make the jump from the C-USA to the Big 12
-Three guys returning who averaged less than 7 points per game.
Now, I think a lot of guys mentioned above will be good and I'm excited about them, but next year will be interesting..
-Three freshman
-Two guys (Brase, Long) coming off surgeries with 1 of them yet to contribute at this level. (I think he can though. Jakolby)
-One guy trying to make the jump from the C-USA to the Big 12
-Three guys returning who averaged less than 7 points per game.
Now, I think a lot of guys mentioned above will be good and I'm excited about them, but next year will be interesting..
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
Might be a rough one, but you hit it on the head. It'll be interesting...
Foundation is there for a bright future. Hope fans can be patient next year watching our young talent develop.
It could easily be a rebuilding year. We haven't had one for a while, but some of us remember when every year was a rebuilding year. So I'm not going to get worked about this one.
After next year, we only lose one known quality (Beverly and the other kid aren't known to us) in Jackson. We are gaining the Virginia kid and Jacobson. I suspect that we will sign some other kids.
I am not happy about a rebuilding year. What can I say, I'm spoiled and I love Cyclone BB. The fact is we didn't recruit well enough this spring to reload. Basketball is the sport where you can reload, and it looks like we didn't. I'm still 100% behind CSP and I think he is a heck of a coach, but this spring was bad. Hopefully it will be fun to watch a young team develop, but it will also suck to have to wait another 20 months to make the NCAAs again.
The fact is, we had to pay the piper eventually for Fred's recruiting strategy the last few years he was here. This was coming eventually. It was unavoidable.
Look... we had what 6 or 8 scholarships to fill right? Half the roster basically. As a coach with 6 spots to fill, you are put in a real dilemma.
We just have not come to terms with this yet.
Well this all but seals the deal on the 17 recruiting class. 9 scholarship players, while it doesn't sound like much, is actually 1 more still than historically will see the court in a big 12 game.
Not sure what the deal is with this staff and recruiting. I'm not panicking yet but I've moved past the "they're fine" mode. Moving into the prohm needs to bring in a recruiting wizard that can close the deal. A TJ type.
Not sure what the deal is with this staff and recruiting. I'm not panicking yet but I've moved past the "they're fine" mode. Moving into the prohm needs to bring in a recruiting wizard that can close the deal. A TJ type.
Very few schools go to 6 straight NCAA tournaments and even fewer manage to do it while having 2 coaches. We are in a small, small group of mostly elite schools. Almost every school must rebuild occasionally.
The current streak:
School Consecutive Appearances Conference
Kansas 28 Big 12
Duke 22 ACC
Michigan State 20 Big Ten
Gonzaga 19 WCC
Wisconsin 19 Big Ten
VCU 7 A-10
Cincinnati 7 The American
North Carolina 7 ACC
Iowa State 6 Big 12
Wichita State 6 MVC[a]
That's 3 or 4 mid-majors and some of the best programs in college basketball. So it would appear that it is NOT as easy to reload as you seem to think.
I'm still in a "they're fine" mode. I wish we could have hit on some of the spring guys for sure, don't get me wrong, but it's still not the end of the world.
We were in a screwed up scholarship situation. Seriously screwed up.
Now, let's see Prohm as a coach. If he turns this group into an immediate winner, we will know we have a great coach.
