What's the ideal roster mix?

[Jaydumo20]

The future for freshmen is very different than it was 5 years ago.
But as we see in the tourney and with our team, freshmen can be killers.
They can also become sophomores and juniors, wearing the same unis all 3 years.

How would you prioritize recruiting vs experience, especially as it pertains to portal pieces?

If you have ten spots how would you fill them? Teams have to recruit....right?

 

[GHSWolverines]

The landscape has changed indeed. Coaches I have heard wonder if there is much value to having 3 or 4 frosh on the team when you can poach 1 or 2 portal guys with

 

[GHSWolverines]

The landscape has changed indeed. Coaches I have heard wonder if there is much value to having 3 or 4 frosh on the team when you can poach 1 or 2 portal guys with

Oops I accidently hit post.
To continue... poach 1 or 2 portal guys that are battle tested. Unless things change. NIL and transfer rules are going to make it harder for 4 star players to get much playing time in many top 25 programs.

 

[Scoe]

players who can inbound the ball

 

[ConnEd]

The biggest change is just going to be the amount of roster turnover year to year. Teams will lose 2-3 graduating players in a year plus another 2-3 in transfers on average. That’s six players per year. We already know we are losing 2 grads and 2 transfers with 1 or 2 more heading to the draft.

The one positive of the portal is that it gives the staff the opportunity to get the experience mix that they want.

IMO, you want 3 frosh every year and add very experienced guys to fill roster holes - assuming 5-6 open spots.

 

[UconnU]

Tough guards who are 6’4+ that can shoot and switch

 

[HooperScooper]

Oops I accidently hit post.

There's an "Edit" button on the bottom of posts that you can click on to change your posts.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Taking into consideration our current staff and manner that the game is played today I believe the ideal mix would be the 2022-2023 version of Sanogo, Hawkins and Jackson, maybe also Calcaterra; the 2023-2024 version of Clingan, Karaban, Spencer, Newton, Castle and Diarra (knee was in better shape); 2024-2025 version of Ball and McNeeley and either 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 Andrew Hurley to dribble out the clock.

I cannot think of a more ideal roster mix.

 

[HooperScooper]

The future for freshmen is very different than it was 5 years ago.
But as we see in the tourney and with our team, freshmen can be killers.
They can also become sophomores and juniors, wearing the same unis all 3 years.

How would you prioritize recruiting vs experience, especially as it pertains to portal pieces?

If you have ten spots how would you fill them? Teams have to recruit....right?

I've been thinking about that recently also. It's very complicated and I don't think there's one best way to build a roster. But I acknowledge that the transfer portal is becoming a bigger piece.

 

[superjohn]

The future for freshmen is very different than it was 5 years ago.
But as we see in the tourney and with our team, freshmen can be killers.
They can also become sophomores and juniors, wearing the same unis all 3 years.

How would you prioritize recruiting vs experience, especially as it pertains to portal pieces?

If you have ten spots how would you fill them? Teams have to recruit....right?

I think we might have it next season but we have to wait a bit to see. A few really good veteran returnees, a stud freshman class, and get the few pieces you need through the portal.

Next year just hone in on a few stud freshman. Get Abdou Toure and we may only need another one.

So veteran returnees a couple/few 5 star type recruits and get the portal guys you need.

 

[caw]

I don’t think there is. Also though the portal will remain, right now the five year COVID players are done this year. You can have a mix like last years UConn team, or a team of transfers like Auburn and be good. A totally homegrown team is probably the only thing that wouldn’t work (good luck Shaka).

A lot just depends on some luck. This is probably the first year Hurley really missed on a transfer not playing up to (or exceeding) expectations. It was bound to happen eventually.

Honestly most of the transfers Hurley has gotten have vastly exceeded expectation which probably isn’t the norm (Cam, Tristen, Joey, Diarra all played way above what was expected). And Reed was about as expected so far IMO.

 

[navery12]

I don't think there's a perfect formula but for the 10 guys I'd expect minutes from I'd ideally want something like this:

3 top 30-40 HS freshmen
2 sophomore HS recruits
1 junior HS recruit
2-3 new transfers
1-2 2nd year transfers

 

[bendm]

I don't think there's a perfect formula but for the 10 guys I'd expect minutes from I'd ideally want something like this:

3 top 30-40 HS freshmen
2 sophomore HS recruits
1 junior HS recruit
2-3 new transfers
1-2 2nd year transfers

No seniors? or are they the transfers?

 

[navery12]

No seniors? or are they the transfers?

I was assuming most of the transfers are juniors/seniors like we've been going after. And maybe the occasional guy like Karaban who will stick around, but if we're recruiting top end HS recruits my assumption is most of those guys are going to be looking to jump to the NBA early at some point

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Taking into consideration our current staff and manner that the game is played today I believe the ideal mix would be the 2022-2023 version of Sanogo, Hawkins and Jackson, maybe also Calcaterra; the 2023-2024 version of Clingan, Karaban, Spencer, Newton, Castle and Diarra (knee was in better shape); 2024-2025 version of Ball and McNeeley and either 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 Andrew Hurley to dribble out the clock.

I cannot think of a more ideal roster mix.

2023-24 Hurley: less pressured, with Senior poise