my comment was clearly limited to the transfer class rankings. after losing all 5 starters PC had bigger holes to fill than us and while you recognized our roster is incomplete you didnt let it stop you from prefacing your post with unripe and unwarranted criticism. i'll keep my rose colored glasses on as long as countless posters here keep trolling.
Thats quantity tho. They got 4 transfers in. We got two starting guards. We are 5 pts behind them in that ranking system with half of the quantity. Give it time.
In addition, they needed to replace 4 starters basically with Bynum stepping into the 5th. We needed to get 2. What we are looking for now is a lot different then what they were. I’ll take our starting 5 over them 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. They are going to start two at 6’3 and one at 5’11. Good luck to them defending us.
They heard Akok was considering and started flocking!
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Depth is important with injuries. I think they have us there presently too. Just saw they lost some guy Geeter that hasn’t played yet. I know there is plenty of time - but the quiet gets me anxious. I think their biggest issue won’t be size (they can go bigger at guard situationally), but whether Cooley can get all these new pieces on the same page again - not an easy task.
We've been seeing NIL deals announced for other things. I'm curious if there will be something or if this is regular old fashion duffel dropping.
I get it. I do. But Hopkins and Carter for instance probably wouldn’t be starters here. We are filling for different needs. Good names are still hopping in the portal as we speak. Not a race is all
I'm assuming its all NIL. It seems easy enough to get them the money within the rules that you would have to be really careless to get caught doing something illegal.
You do understand that a significant portion of these rankings is tied to quantity right?
Forgot they hired the Xavier assistant.
did they go after any of the same players?
Super helpful. Thanks for explaining it to me - I will rest easy tonight!
Georgetown is killing us in the portal!
for their sake i hope they do. heck i hope akok goes there too. BE needs gtown to get back to relevance ASAP especially with wright retiring.
Why are you pretending to be a UConn fan?
I just choose to root for the players vs. coach. Disheartening to see guys from a top ranked recruiting class already gone. We still have holes to fill. Do you think these departures help the recruiting pitch to fill these holes? Nice to show playing time available, but the Floyd Jr. situation is a really bad look.
Certainly didn’t hurt us with any of the top ranked incoming recruits, or the two top ranked transfers we got, or the top ranked recruit possibly reclassifying to play this year. But aside from that, I get it.
Two very reputable posters have intimated that there was tampering. So I agree, the Floyd situation is a very bad look...for Providence.
Georgetown is still Georgetown. Elite school, rub elbows with rich and powerful. Beautiful campus. Ewing is still a hall of famer. Two years ago they made a surprise run, so I think the jury is out on whether he can succeed.