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flameshaw wrote:I believe JM is still #1, but will not be for long.You are spot on regarding Jeff's biggest mistake, although I suspect it may have been too late for him to do anything about it.
Dan Manley was the first basketball coach in 72 and Dale Gibson helped him the next year.
JM recruited a couple of the best all-time at LU and did take us from a NCCAA team to D1. He overcame tremendous obstacles to grow a good program. Good guy, and he left at the right time. He was like Rocco, took us as far as he could and then moved on. The biggest mistake he made was not making an assistant coaching change, when he was warned about what was going on. (Not trying to start a fight, or say anything bad about anyone).
RMK, will easily be the GOAT if he stays a few more years and gets us to the dance, one more time. He has also been given the tools to do that. Love the guy and hope we have nothing but continued success. It would be fantastic if LU is his last job.
thepostman wrote:Agreed. I see a lot of people on various social media platforms happy about this development but I couldn't disagree more. It does us no good to play in a weak conference. All of these recent developments weaken the conference and so therefore weaken our program. It makes our job much tougher.+1
thepostman wrote:Agreed. I see a lot of people on various social media platforms happy about this development but I couldn't disagree more. It does us no good to play in a weak conference. All of these recent developments weaken the conference and so therefore weaken our program. It makes our job much tougher.Certainly not optimal for our upward mobility to have so many conference opponents "rebuilding". It has been a top heavy conference for years, with the mid pack bad and the bottom awful. Next year the top could be just us, although I think N Florida will probably be pretty good (unless they have some more transfers).
ballcoach15 wrote:Unless changes are made, transfers will destroy college basketball, and hurt other sports also. I read recently there are nearly 1000 players in transfer portal. Some schools seem to recruit other schools more than they do high schools.You read wrong. 670 in the transfer portal to date:
North Florida softball team even had 7 transfers on their roster. Free agency is more alive in NCAA than it is in the pro leagues.
ballcoach15 wrote:Transfers should be granted only on a case by case basis, with a good need to transfer.
I knew a player who played for 4 high schools in 4 years. Then he went to college and I believe he played for 3 colleges in 4 years, maybe 4.
ballcoach15 wrote:Transfers should be granted only on a case by case basis, with a good need to transfer.Define “Good Need”
I knew a player who played for 4 high schools in 4 years. Then he went to college and I believe he played for 3 colleges in 4 years, maybe 4.
ballcoach15 wrote:Transfers should be granted only on a case by case basis, with a good need to transfer.You didnt answer my question. Here it is again because you love not answering questions.
I knew a player who played for 4 high schools in 4 years. Then he went to college and I believe he played for 3 colleges in 4 years, maybe 4.
thepostman wrote:Coaches leave all the time for better situations and that often has a greater impact than the majority if the college players who transfer. Is that also destroying college basketball?
ballcoach15 wrote:No, coaches leaving isn't destroying college basketball. Problem with players leaving is the number grows each year.There are fewer coaches than players. So 1 of 1 coach leaving a program would be more destructive than 1 of 13 players leaving a program
With number of transfers in portal now, there are enough to stock over 50 teams with 13 players each.
Just a matter of time before someone gets caught paying a player to transfer.
Purple Haize wrote:The current number is 684, so that's one thing that is not so weird.ballcoach15 wrote:No, coaches leaving isn't destroying college basketball. Problem with players leaving is the number grows each year.There are fewer coaches than players. So 1 of 1 coach leaving a program would be more destructive than 1 of 13 players leaving a program
With number of transfers in portal now, there are enough to stock over 50 teams with 13 players each.
Just a matter of time before someone gets caught paying a player to transfer.
Also, Army math is weird. Unless there are 650 players in the transfer portal
oldflame wrote:There are 684 players in the transfer portal? Does that include Grad transfers ? I’m not up to speed on my Transfer Portal. There are about 4500 D1 players. So that’s 15%ish?Purple Haize wrote:The current number is 684, so that's one thing that is not so weird.ballcoach15 wrote:No, coaches leaving isn't destroying college basketball. Problem with players leaving is the number grows each year.There are fewer coaches than players. So 1 of 1 coach leaving a program would be more destructive than 1 of 13 players leaving a program
With number of transfers in portal now, there are enough to stock over 50 teams with 13 players each.
Just a matter of time before someone gets caught paying a player to transfer.
Also, Army math is weird. Unless there are 650 players in the transfer portal