My bad you went all Hawkeye on here the other day and they always said they had two NCAA teams on their roster due to so much depth. I thought you were saying this season's scout team was a Final 4 level team
Vick (KU) announces he is going pro
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My bad you went all Hawkeye on here the other day and they always said they had two NCAA teams on their roster due to so much depth. I thought you were saying this season's scout team was a Final 4 level team
True, Bruce is nothing if not a superb manager of expectations. Hopefully he didn’t outkick his coverage with the Elite 8 run.
Nah, he just bought himself a few extra years off the hot seat. All in all it was a very good year for KSU last season. Although they never managed to beat any of the good teams in the Big 12, they were able to stay atop the rest of the pack and take advantage of some good breaks in the tourney.
Sometimes a team gets dinged by bad breaks out of their control so you gotta take advantage of the good breaks.
"If he wants to win big" = a 15th straight Big 12 title followed by getting bounced in the tourney. Many KU players get that experience.
Or he could help revive a once blue blood program (that happens to be in-state).
Or he could get a world class education at Vandy (no clue why else he would be looking there).
Do you think its a coincidence that Memphis lost the Lawson's (and another leading scorer) and got better the next year?
Odd.
So Tuco thinks that the losses of Mason, Ellis, Wiggins, and Embiid were all addition by subtraction.
That's a reach. Was Memphis really better this year? Kenpom had them at 161 this year and 101 the year before.
Are you going to apply that same logic to Shayok?
Sure, hard to refute. Going from 23-11 to 31-3.
I just thought it was odd that Memphis lost the player of the year in their conference, and their other top two leading scorers, yet had a better season.
Addition by subtraction?
My point was that for the first time in a long time Bruce and KSU are going to have expectations. It will be interesting to see how they respond.
I certainly don't begrudge them for the relatively easy path they got. You can only play the teams in front of you.
The Memphis admin was so impressed by this "improvement," that they fired the coach. You are killing it with this take.
Frank had some 'purchased' 4 and 5-star dudes. Weber did not. Weber won a league championship share. Frank won nothing other than a boot out of town.
Does Weber get a title without Martin's "purchased" players?
We'll see next year. I will say Frank couldn't win one with 'em. It took a basketball coach to do that after Beasley, Walker and Pullen had left. Of course, the whole damn team would have left if Frank had stayed.
Better for all that Martin headed to USC,e, where he's had a remarkable run of one tournament appearance in six years and but one assistant coach caught in the FBI sting.
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Langford definitely going to IU. KU is going to be hosting grad transfer Joe Cremo after he visits Nova. Imagine Nova will have the upper hand since he is from the northeast.
Interesting... Cremo would be a good fall back if Langford stays home. I always thought it was down to Vandy or IU (once they got Mack) for RL. That said I don't want to count Self out for late unexpected pickups. Wiggins, Jackson and the Lawson bros all appeared as relative long shots when they announced to KU.
