These are great options for new pet peeves if we drop the hard hedge!
If I were to guess it is largely a function of how many points (and minutes) per game from last season are gone. Cole, Tyrese, Whaley, Polley our a huge loss. I like what we’ve picked up to replace them, but they are unproven as a team. Fourth is an entirely fair pic given that circumstance. I believe we will outperform it, perhaps significantly.
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I'm guessing it was a factor in Jay Wright's decision to retire.
I think he's still trying to get his explosiveness back post-achilles. That's a brutal injury for basketball players. In a way you'd almost rather tear your ACL considering the relative recovery - to - previous - form rates.
I think there are broadly two types of coaches in CBB these days:Interesting comments from McDermott about NIL and the transfer portal. I wonder what percentage of high D1 coaches feel the same way.
“Before NIL and immediate eligibility we were thinking two years ahead with transfers because they had to sit a year,” he said. “Now if you have a need like we did this year, you can go and get it. I mean we brought Baylor Scheierman who fits perfectly with that piece we were missing. The transfer portal makes you think differently but I still want to maintain the ability to build a program. As soon as you totally commit to the transfer portal and get away from recruiting high school players you get in a cycle of building a new team every year, rather than building a program. I got into this business because I enjoy building a program. If it ever gets to the point where I’m forced to build a new team each year, that’s when I’ll probably go play golf for a living.”
If that didn't drive home McDermott's thoughts on the prospects of being betrothed to the the portal, he added on.
“The transfer portal is not why I got into this business,” he continued. “We’ve adjusted and learned from it, but I like watching a player grow from freshman year on. Like watching Ryan Kalkbrenner make the jump he made and continue to improve over the course of his sophomore year as he heads into his junior year. Not just watching changes on the basketball floor, but watching his comfortability talking to you guys compared to a year ago when he was here.
“You watch young people grow up and help them turn into a better version of themselves and hopefully some of the things they learn in our program can help them be successful adults. I think that takes time and I enjoy that part of my job. I like watching them grow up in front of my eyes. If you get married to the transfer portal you lose that.”
Big East Media Day: Greg McDermott talks transfer portal, expectations for upcoming season
MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Creighton holds high expectations this year after being ranked No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll and No. 9 nationally in the preseason AP Top 25.
Eh we’ve brought in 4 freshman twice since Hurley has been here and that didn’t stop this off season from happening. Hurley is definitely transfer portal friendly currently. Maybe that changes after this upcoming class?
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2 of our best players were transfers last year. One was brought in to play over his recruited PG. We really just can’t say that program building is a thing right now after we pretty much replaced 4 of his own recruits with transfers this year too.
There’s a whole lot more nuance to the conversation that you are leaving out. It is obvious to anyone except maybe you that Hurley is a program builder. I think to his credit he has amended his preference for what he feels is the good of the program this off-season.
'There’s a whole lot more nuance to the conversation that you, and spliffy, are leaving out. It is obvious to anyone except maybe you, and spliffy, that Hurley is a program builder.
In hurleys career he never had a transfer pre UConn.
Of course it’s out of necessity but a lot of it also seemed like him not believing in the guys he recruited. Everyone on this board knew we were hitting the portal hard this off-season to find better options than what was already on the roster. That’s fine, but you can’t do that and say we’re a program builder currently.
I’m not sure how McDermott’s roster changes from one year to the next so it’s hard for me to say. Did he have a mass exodus of his own recruits to pick up this transfer? Genuinely asking because I’m not familiar with their roster.
I can buy his amended preference for the program. It seems we are going a lot more guard heavy which should be interesting to watch.
I keep seeing this like Ollie’s recruits that stayed haven’t been amazing. Jalen Adams doesn’t need explanation, Vital was a dog his senior year. Whaley won DPOY. Tyler Polley was iffy but he was our best 3 point shooter and Carlton transferred out and was a beast for Houston. These weren’t loyalty and charity cases, they were just very useful and good players.
I can buy the COVID being a reason for the misses. I don’t agree that replacing 4 of your own recruits in an off-season is “selectively” using the portal. We’re going from our two leaders being portal players to now essentially most of our role players being portal players. All of our guards basically (the most important position to winning in college hoops).
The reason you remember those players so fondly is because of the way they DEVELOPED under Hurley! You are remembering the DPoy in Whaley because of what Hurley did for his development. You remember vitals toughness because Hurley helped mild hun from a selfish chucker to a team leader.
I agree and would love to see him do it as well. Feel like he just needs to trust his really really great recruiting more. This is going to be the first year we see a team led by his recruits (outside of 2020 with Bouknight kind of).
