The last that comes to mind is Ajou Aju Deng...ouch.
You're right, although still not sure what he "Partially" qualified for?
Dominating chairs.
Agreed. All stems from our inability to recruit big men year in and year out. Big men develop at a much slower rate than guards. If we had solid depth in our frontcourt, Ollie would be able to redshirt guys such as Facey/Enoch who'd benefit immensely.
We are in no position to redshirt anyone. We have no clue if any of these frontcourt guys will pan out and give us the help we need this year, we need as many of them to compete with each other and hope one or two is better than their rep coming in.
We didn't have the people in front of them where they could redshirt, same goes for right now. You need to have studs already entrenched in the lineup at the same position for redshirting to ever make sense.
Jumping the gun here. We'll have 12 guys on the roster by this time next week, and I think there's a non-zero chance the staff uses summer workouts & the official preseason stuff to figure out if either Carlton or Whaley is better off redshirting.
Dude, this is the weakest our frontcourt has ever been on paper and you think the staff is considering redshirt. We basically have four three star recruits with zero D1 experience and a kid from Cornell who hasn't played in a year and put up modest #'s all fighting it out to see who can rebound, set screens, and dunk to help supplement what Jalen, Rique, Larrier, and Vital do. We need the bodies for right now, redshirting makes no sense.
Moretti would make it 12.
Good point as far as not redshirting the POY and and help needed (minutes) in the frontcourt. I am going to say right now that we will see a significant if not vast change in S & C in all players. I think muscle and stamina building will add confidence along with attitude training with the changes being made in the program. If Facey was already 19 when he came here it is just pathetic that he weighed that little until his senior year or so. In 10 weeks of basic combat training the spectrum of say a company (250 men) might weigh between 100 lbs and 260. After 10 weeks it would look pretty much like 135-190. Fat burned off and muscle added with long marches every day with gear, calisthenics and running. That and someone in your face at meal time stuffing you or telling you to lay off. Most of the time there was also (seemingly) inadequate sleep and heat. If it was too hot (stroke danger get up before sunrise and run in the dark). The weight change/ muscle building was amazing. 10 weeks!
