Whiffs? Damn this a tough crowd, I don’t even know what’s more impressive from this staff; the player development aspect etc Whaley, or them identifying talent early and being in it till the end with basically every target on their board, I can’t front, the way we got adama to commit when he was a heavy Hall lean is exhibit A
Calhoun was brilliant about how he used his pieces. He put his guys in a place that they could succeed and was smart about covering their weaknesses. He was outstanding about making adjustments during the games. I get the sense that Hurley is more locked into his style of play initial game plan. Maybe that was just a function of the pieces he had available to him.
with 2 open schollies for '23 plus probably having to replace any/all of sanogo/aj/hawk, is it an either or? we could end up with 4 open schollies for '23 and have room for all of stewart, coen, dilione, and singare. is there too much overlap?
I don't think there's overlap but I would be shocked if we're bringing in a 7 man freshman recruiting class in the transfer portal era
No chance. I don't even think they are really recruiting Dilione. Singare is old for his class I believe so maybe he is a potential late summer reclass.
There’s no way those guys all commit to the same class. Maybe Duke or Kentucky could swing it, but even then it’s a hard sell for playing time long term.
Agreed. Would be a mistake imho
valid but i'd rather build with freshmen than transfers. we know we still have 2 open schollies for '23. for arguments sake let's say staff already knows that sanogo and aj are good as gone. that's 4 open schollies so why not recruit 4 more guys? hawkins could still go pro as well in which case we'd still need to get a transfer. so if not a 7 man freshmen class i think it should be 5 or 6.
how would it be different convincing transfers about PT? if we're losing newton/alleyne/calcaterra to graduation and sanogo/aj/hawk to the pros there's plenty of PT to fight over including all 5 starting spots potentially.
And losing all those guys in the spring means we need to replace a ton of production, which is gonna happen from the transfer portal. And that's not even getting into the part where you have to convince 7 freshman to all come in the same year which almost guarantees transfers since not all of them can play. It's all a moot point anyway since Hurley has made it clear with his public comments there won't be massive classes of freshman
i'd like to think most of the production could be replaced by rising players already on the team e.g. diarra, hawk, karaban, samson, clingan. what's a massive class, more than 4 or 5? maybe i missed that comment.
I'll see if I can find the comment, I think it was in one of the transfer threads where Hurley said with the expansion of the portal large classes are a thing of the past.
It's a lot like the amp in spinal tap going to 11.
It just doesn’t happen. It’s as simple as that. So while I agree that we could logistically make it work, it’s not worth discussing. There won’t be a 7 man class where 5 are top 100 kids playing 3-4 positions.
Why would you rather build with unproven, potentially non-contributing freshman over proven immediate impact transfers? That make no sense.
