that's my concern too. bring in a really good center. have Homenick and Cook back him up. play JRob at the big forward spot and let him be an athlete. if Caldwell beats him out ... fine. but let's get bigger at the 4.
And think about what we lost. Two very competent centers in Walz and Beagle. Our best player was probably AJ Lopez. Also lost another major starter in Johnston. We have to replace 4 of our 5 best players from last years team.
So, u want a 6'6 starter who can't handle, can't shoot the 3, and doesn't have an inside game like a Cayo type? I just can't give a lot of minutes to that type of player.
A bare cupboard was the perfect time to make a coaching change. Yet, we said, "let's run it back".
Obviously, the influx of cash is leading to a coaching name change - Chris Mone’.
If we are serious about things, this is a kid we go get. Of course with an 18 ppg average, he's probably going a lot higher and for more money. Poo ol' Richmond, can't afford anything.
And we’ll probably never hear the definitive reasons why they brought him back so all we can do is speculate, but I’d luv to hear FACTS. Cold hard answers.
I mean, does he care about getting a degree right now anyway or is he just going to take the most money he's offered? I'm guessing the latter. He can finish his degree later if he wants to.
Just call me "Spider Insider"
So in all lines of work, including college basketball, I think there is a rather wide area between "works really hard" and "is dogging it" and the lines in between are pretty blurry and a lot of guys live in that vast area. So when I hear an AA say "not everybody played hard" I tend to hear that as "some people were dogging it" but really he probably means some folks were in than vast area. And that's harder to spot for sure - - especially from outside where we can see "dogging it" but harder too distinguish the various levels above that. The great Dick Bennet once told us at a coaching clinic that the number one thing we needed to do as coaches was to figure out which guys were working their hardest and which guys weren't WHEN THE COACHES WEREN'T LOOKING. He said this would tell us all we needed to know about our team and how to coach it etc. but was super hard since we couldn't actually be looking or the "test" was ruined. This was great advice and I think applies in this described circumstance - - everything we see from outside is also a coach is watching scenario so we won't see what AA is referring to, but he will!
And I don't see that as a guy we're going to take, not even under the reportedly relaxed requirements. Our expectation is going to continue to be that guys coming here will either be graduating from here or transferring out in good standing. (Grad transfers are a different story.) A one-year rental using his final year of eligibility and who can't finish that year with a UR undergrad degree isn't going to fly with admissions. I'm willing to bet Ulla's ranch on it.
I like Harper a little bit but not completely sold.
to me, it depends what you put arourd him.
