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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2512649, member: 5832"] It's the same way in baseball. JUCO transfers are helpful for well, getting guys like Cobb. Giving you a legit 7/8 guy on the depth chart who gives you valuable minutes. Flawed, full of effort, but clearly not a guy who should be starting or eating up long terms scholarship money. Cobb's a guy who gives good effort, with an underrated passing game that can keep you competitive in stretches when you need your valuable guys to get a blow. He'd have been a great depth addition on almost any single one of the good teams we've had. He's not a guy who should be starting and playing 15 minutes+ It's really not all that different in other sports. I lean back on baseball because I know it the best, but it's the same there. We had a transfer to Creighton signed a few years ago. Outstanding numbers at Iowa Western, peripherals and spin were all there. We lost him by December because he couldn't bother going to class and had to take summer classes. First red flag was it took him six weeks to fill out his contract. Talented, but there's always something to worry about and keep an eye on. For a few it's behavioral, but it's not that he's acting 'ghetto' (I don't even want to go there). Behavioral covers a lot from effort, to punctuality, to academic, to how the prioritize things in their life. There's a reason they had to go the JUCO route first and it always peaks its head up in varying degrees along the way and yet again - here we are. Yes, sometimes you get lucky and catch a break, but it's not the norm, it's the exception. [/QUOTE]

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