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UofCT said:
Gaffney was playing well as a freshman and took Gilbert’s starting spot. Was that a reward for playing well? I have 5 other examples maybe more if you want them
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What happened the next year when he wasn’t starting anymore?
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
What happened the next year when he wasn’t starting anymore?
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Gaffney actually started a few games the following season when Cole was struggling. Gaffney had two duds.

2-5 with 1 assist
1-6 with 2 assists
 
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The Covid year is still working its way through the system. Lots of frosh sat this year because the glut of older players on teams. Teams that play their young guys this year will have a very big advantage down the road. We need to get those younguns on the court this year.
 
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CL82 said:
He had a top 50 recruit as a back up plan. It didn’t work out, but it’s not like him he just crossed his fingers and hoped that Cole would stay another year.
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People can critique him for the recruiting miss with Diggins in a covid year—really, they can—but every single coach has recruiting misses.

People are still worked up after the disaster that was NMST. If they lost to Arkansas or Gonzaga people would have more trust.
 
CL82 said:
He had a top 50 recruit as a back up plan. It didn’t work out, but it’s not like him he just crossed his fingers and hoped that Cole would stay another year.
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Yeah but regardless of how people color it, Rahsool’s expectations weren’t managed and now he’s gone. Gaffney’s gone too. It might turn out ok, but it’s a bad situation no matter how you feel about Hurley.

It can be salvaged, but it doesn’t invite confidence.
 
tzznandrew said:
People can critique him for the recruiting miss with Diggins in a covid year—really, they can—but every single coach has recruiting misses.

People are still worked up after the disaster that was NMST. If they lost to Arkansas or Gonzaga people would have more trust.
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That’s true. If we had won one game or looked respectable that would be different.

Instead, we got — “unmitigated disaster: the sequel.”
 
Palatine said:
The Covid year is still working its way through the system. Lots of frosh sat this year because the glut of older players on teams. Teams that play their young guys this year will have a very big advantage down the road. We need to get those younguns on the court this year.
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The other aspect of this is that next year there will be significantly fewer super seniors (my opinion, less guys will exercise that option) so those freshmen who played against 23 year olds will be sophomores playing against guys two years older than them instead of four.
 
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NotADime89 said:
LOL Clueless Kathy back at it again!!
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Lol - amazing how much time you and others spend responding and disliking Clueless Kathy posts, guess that's a millennial thing - the world where likes and dislikes are so important. Shocking - nothing you or any of your buddies say or do will stop me from posting my opinions, I don't do it for likes. I can also tell you I am not the only one who questions Hurley.
 
Kathy said:
Lol - amazing how much time you and others spend responding and disliking Clueless Kathy posts, guess that's a millennial thing - the world where likes and dislikes are so important. Shocking - nothing you or any of your buddies say or do will stop me from posting my opinions, I don't do it for likes. I can also tell you I am not the only one who questions Hurley.
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I don't know CK you seem to be pretty bothered by the dislikes....It's ok for people to not agree with your opinion no need to get upset. Those darn Millennials!!!!
 
Kathy said:
Lol - amazing how much time you and others spend responding and disliking Clueless Kathy posts, guess that's a millennial thing - the world where likes and dislikes are so important. Shocking - nothing you or any of your buddies say or do will stop me from posting my opinions, I don't do it for likes. I can also tell you I am not the only one who questions Hurley.
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David Spade Boomer GIF by CTV Comedy Channel
 
Kathy said:
Lol - amazing how much time you and others spend responding and disliking Clueless Kathy posts, guess that's a millennial thing - the world where likes and dislikes are so important. Shocking - nothing you or any of your buddies say or do will stop me from posting my opinions, I don't do it for likes. I can also tell you I am not the only one who questions Hurley.
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Fortunately in some cases, age breeds wisdom and some are just wise enough to not posts such things on message boards.
 
GotNets? said:
Yeah but regardless of how people color it, Rahsool’s expectations weren’t managed and now he’s gone. Gaffney’s gone too. It might turn out ok, but it’s a bad situation no matter how you feel about Hurley.

It can be salvaged, but it doesn’t invite confidence.
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Or were Diggins expectations managed properly? In a perfect world, I would rather lose a kid being honest with him then string him along telling him that he’s better than he actually is. Promising but not delivering minutes to a kid is a very short term solution.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
This is some good context. It was clear from day one that Bouknight was the most talented player on the team though. It shouldn't take 2 months and an injury to let him start and have him be a major part of the offense.

Hawkins got minutes, but the way Hurley handled him was terrible. He had him on a vrry short leash despite his hot start and "freshmen'd" the hell out of him. He can make a couple of great plays and with one mistake Hurley would pull him INSTANTLY. Thats when his wall came. when he became tentative from being afraid to make a mistake.

Jackson got the playing time he deserved imo and yeah without seeing too much of Diggins cant really speak on it. im really just going off Bouknight and Hawkins, guys who were clearly the most talented scorers and NBA talent that Hurley refused to let loose until absolutely forced to.
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Wasn't that the case with Sanogo too? Didn't he have to play him or risk losing him to transfer as well?
 
McLovin said:
Encouraging.

The other 2 starters need to be portal guards who can shoot 3s & handle the ball (1 true PG and a shot creating CG).

PG - Transfer
CG - Transfer
G/F - Hawkins
G/F - Jackson
C - Sanogo

Still can get plenty of minutes for CFJ (G), Karaban (F) and Johnson (F/C) off the bench.

I’m pumped based on some of the guards we’ve been connected to on the transfer thread to fill those 2 slots. And confident the staff can do it.

3rd open scholarship could be a backup PG 1 year stop gap for depth or use for Castle reclass (even if it’s mid-year)
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Who might these be? Who are the best available to possibly fill these roles in your opinion and/or research.
 
gtcam said:
So Hurley was lying when he said he would have helped the team?
Then again - who knows
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I am guessing he meant he could have helped in retrospect had he known then what he knows now.
 
UofCT said:
Gaffney actually started a few games the following season when Cole was struggling. Gaffney had two duds.

2-5 with 1 assist
1-6 with 2 assists
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he still lost his starting spot that he earned the following year though… to a guy who didn’t play a game for us yet.

To say Gaffney got rewarded for his great play freshman year would not be true. He got rewarded by getting recruited over by a transfer. Now we haven’t made it out of the first round in 2 years and lost both PGs we recruited to have to go fishing back in the portal. That’s not healthy for the program. Whole time Gaffney probably would’ve been a better PG to play next to Bouknight with the chemistry they had but it’s water under the bridge at this point.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
he still lost his starting spot that he earned the following year though… to a guy who didn’t play a game for us yet.

To say Gaffney got rewarded for his great play freshman year would not be true. He got rewarded by getting recruited over by a transfer. Now we haven’t made it out of the first round in 2 years and lost both PGs we recruited to have to go fishing back in the portal. That’s not healthy for the program. Whole time Gaffney probably would’ve been a better PG to play next to Bouknight with the chemistry they had but it’s water under the bridge at this point.
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This has to be a long term troll. I refuse to believe anyone with an ounce of an intelligence could triple down on the take that the reason we struggled was Cole starting over Gaffney
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
he still lost his starting spot that he earned the following year though… to a guy who didn’t play a game for us yet.

To say Gaffney got rewarded for his great play freshman year would not be true. He got rewarded by getting recruited over by a transfer. Now we haven’t made it out of the first round in 2 years and lost both PGs we recruited to have to go fishing back in the portal. That’s not healthy for the program. Whole time Gaffney probably would’ve been a better PG to play next to Bouknight with the chemistry they had but it’s water under the bridge at this point.
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So your preference would have been to either:
1) bench the guy who ended up making 1st team All-BE, and instead start the lesser player, just so the lesser player wouldn’t transfer?

Or 2) not have recruited RJ Cole (an eventual 1st Team All-BE player) at all.

No coach is going to have one point guard on the roster. Gaffney simply was never the best player at his position after his freshman year. This is not rocket science.
 
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