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Post by 00hmh on Jan 14, 2024 12:37:32 GMT -6
Sherm has a point nobody argues that you need to get transfers who can play.
And wherever you find a star it's never likely you hold onto them more than a year, maybe two.
HS players are still going to be important and if they can be solid MAC starters and occasionally one breaks out as a star you need that. A core of players who give system continuity will make a difference.
No team is based solely on portal players. No coach wants AAU mentality one and done teams. That will not win the MAC.
It's also easier said than done to pluck 2 or 3 transfer stars. Not without NIL deep pockets. That's also not the story with best MAC teams this year.
A few MAC teams have advantage in transfer games since they have solid rosters and need only a few pieces. Lewis aiming for that, not using only HS players, he is playing attention to the JUCO route and international, which is a gamble, we need to do both. Plus HS, plus portal for established college players.
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Post by williamtsherman on Jan 14, 2024 12:59:13 GMT -6
No need for wordy obfuscations and truisms. It's not either/or with freshman and transfers. It's a question of proportion. If you go too far to the side of developmental players, you can find yourself in mid-January having only six contributing players after a not-abnormal amount of injuries. Not that I know any teams in that situation.
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Post by lmills72 on Jan 14, 2024 13:08:09 GMT -6
We do not decide who is a "keeper" and who isn't. The portal decides. I think that's the most positive comment the general has ever made about Lewis' ability to recruit. Whether it's Lewis nudging them out the door, or kids leaving for greener pastures (financial or PT), we'll turn over more than half our roster before next year. We just will. And, quite frankly, we need to. And nobody redshirts anymore, no matter how much a player might need a year to grow/develop. Redshirts are purely a luxury of big-time programs, not MAC-level programs. |
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 14, 2024 14:09:27 GMT -6
We do not decide who is a "keeper" and who isn't. The portal decides. I think that's the most positive comment the general has ever made about Lewis' ability to recruit. Whether it's Lewis nudging them out the door, or kids leaving for greener pastures (financial or PT), we'll turn over more than half our roster before next year. We just will. And, quite frankly, we need to. And nobody redshirts anymore, no matter how much a player might need a year to grow/develop. Redshirts are purely a luxury of big-time programs, not MAC-level programs. If you can't plan to play them and the player wants that route, I see no harm. The coach says yes to the R/S these days not imposes it. |
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Post by lmills72 on Jan 14, 2024 14:52:37 GMT -6
If you can't plan to play them and the player wants that route, I see no harm. The coach says yes to the R/S these days not imposes it. If the kid doesn't play just based on the coach's decision or, as in the case of Doughty or Brittain-Watts, they might be eligible for a R/S because of injury, that's fine. But if I'm the coach, I enter no season with some agreed-upon R/S route for a kid. If they aren't ready to contribute, they shouldn't be recruited. And if they aren't contributing by Year 2 in the program, they better be sitting on the bench behind some All-MAC performer or I'm pushing them out the door. Sorry, that's the cold reality today and the time a good player is likely to spend in your program is short. Either they produce or they don't. |
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 14, 2024 15:04:45 GMT -6
If you can't plan to play them and the player wants that route, I see no harm. The coach says yes to the R/S these days not imposes it. If the kid doesn't play just based on the coach's decision or, as in the case of Doughty or Brittain-Watts, they might be eligible for a R/S because of injury, that's fine. But if I'm the coach, I enter no season with some agreed-upon R/S route for a kid. If they aren't ready to contribute, they shouldn't be recruited. Recruiting freshmen rarely means you expect a lot of production right away. Adams and Bell having a red shirt last year did no harm, IF they had some chance to develop and contribute, doesn't mean we have to keep them. They played behind a lot of guards last year, and Lewis was gambling on both, I agree.
I have no idea what the staff thought they might do this year and I believe we might have let one or both go if we had signed another portal player late. There was always talk we had one more scholarship even after our last signing this summer, most likely it would seem Adams. Everybody expected signing a big man in the summer. No idea what happened there.
It looks to me like they expected Bell to contribute and they were apparently wrong there. We know next to nothing about Adams.
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Post by david75bsu on Jan 14, 2024 16:54:37 GMT -6
I'd guess Brown, Middleton, Jones, Doughty are keepers. Bell, the Euro, and Adams gotta be question marks. Not clear completely what happens with Watt, Hendricks but with two signings for next year who seem legit. One a guard, one an athletic decent sized forward. I've been expecting we lose 4 or 5 from the roster and hit the portal for a big man, guard and/or wing shooter. Keeping Jihad hardest challenge. But if the rule is anybody can transfer any time, who knows about any of our starters. Also hope we keep Hendricks - would not have said that at the start of the season! |
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Post by prestonp on Jan 14, 2024 17:43:57 GMT -6
Watched the game this morning and I was impressed with the effort overall. Akron should kill Turdlio. I thought Anderson played his best game to date. If we play as hard as we did, I still think we can win a few games. Still lucky to finish at .500.
I think we will see a whole new roster next fall. I will be shocked if we don't. Jihad will also be gone IMO.
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Post by universityjim on Jan 14, 2024 20:46:59 GMT -6
KenPom Rankings of BSU and Opponents after 1/14/2024 Games
Akron (12-4) 98 LOSS
Toledo (10-6) 139 LOSS
Kent State (8-8) 175 LOSS
Ohio (7-9) 182
Bowling Green (12-4) 200
Miami (8-8) 235
Northern Illinois (6-10) 269
Ball State (8-8) 277
Western Michigan (7-9) 278
Central Michigan (8-8) 294 LOSS
Eastern Michigan (8-8) 323
Buffalo (2-14) 332
Indiana State (14-3) 48 LOSS
Minnesota (12-4) 84 LOSS
Evansville (10-7) 227 LOSS
Southern Illinois Edwardsville (10-8) 267 WIN
Old Dominion (4-13) 268 WIN
Little Rock (8-10) 272 LOSS
USC Upstate (5-11) 303 WIN
Bellarmine (4-15) 305 WIN
Arkansas Pine Bluff (6-10) 348 WIN
Detroit Mercy (0-18) 359 WIN
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Post by bsutrack on Jan 15, 2024 19:38:01 GMT -6
Watched the game this morning and I was impressed with the effort overall. Akron should kill Turdlio. I thought Anderson played his best game to date. If we play as hard as we did, I still think we can win a few games. Still lucky to finish at .500. I think we will see a whole new roster next fall. I will be shocked if we don't. Jihad will also be gone IMO. I don't think any program in the top 100 would want Jihad's turnover rate. If Jihad transfers to another program next season, it will most likely be more of a lateral move; a program in the 150 to 250 Pomeroy range. |
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