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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 23, 2024 9:33:28 GMT -5
Not an easy game to play for coaches...I have seen us linked to contacting maybe 10-12 players through posts here and on X...but do you tread slowly/cautiously with trying to get commitments now when you know there is still hundreds of more kids on the way and potentially more talented than what is presently out there... Coaches have a pretty good sense of who's likely transferring even if they're not officially in portal. With most of the bigger NIL names now having "NIL agents" - they can put feelers out before the kid announces or season even ends. I just mean do you take a "bird in the hand"...say Koren Johnson from Washington (and maybe he's not a perfect example) tells Cooley tomorrow he will commit...just weighing is that kid a slam dunk or is there another ten more or better Koren Johnson's about to hit the portal in the next week? Probably for a program in our state taking what you can get may have to be the approach rather than seeing what plays out.
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 23, 2024 9:22:15 GMT -5
Not an easy game to play for coaches...I have seen us linked to contacting maybe 10-12 players through posts here and on X...but do you tread slowly/cautiously with trying to get commitments now when you know there is still hundreds of more kids on the way and potentially more talented than what is presently out there...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 22, 2024 13:03:39 GMT -5
That's interesting... Obviously well aware that kids return to their current program despite entering the portal... ...but are you saying there is a significant amount of players that enter, don't find what their looking for and decide to end their college career? Maybe I am not interpeting your statement correctly... Yes, I am confident I've seen an article with numbers but cannot seem to find it now. It's certainly true in football: According to the NCAA Transfer Portal Database, 1,427 FBS players entered the portal in calendar year 2021. Forty-two percent of those did not find a new home and 4% withdrew from the portal. Of the 54% that did manage to find a new home, 13% wound up below the FBS or even the FCS.
The numbers were dramatically worse for FCS players with only 38% of 626 players landing at any type of a new destination.According to this tweet, the same is true of college basketball: To be clear, some including Ken Pomeroy have criticized those stats as inaccurate because they include a lot of walk ons: Even using the conservative numbers, that's still 16% of Division 1 scholarship players who basically drop out of Division 1. Thanks for the information...was completely unaware the % was that high...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 22, 2024 12:56:09 GMT -5
That's interesting... Obviously well aware that kids return to their current program despite entering the portal... ...but are you saying there is a significant amount of players that enter, don't find what their looking for and decide to end their college career? Maybe I am not interpeting your statement correctly... Something like 20% of last years portallers never found a new home. But it's rarely the ones leaving HMs Wow that # surprises me but maybe it shouldn't...had no clue...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 22, 2024 12:43:42 GMT -5
His shooting percentage got worse and was coming off the bench. Not sure where he ends up. People rarely focus on it, but each year there are a number of guys who go into the portal and end up not transferring, and who presumably no longer play. I am not saying Primo Spears is one of them, but it happens. That's interesting... Obviously well aware that kids return to their current program despite entering the portal... ...but are you saying there is a significant amount of players that enter, don't find what their looking for and decide to end their college career? Maybe I am not interpeting your statement correctly...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 21, 2024 8:32:27 GMT -5
Today gonna be a interesting one here I think. Meaning your are thinking more departures? I think at the bare minimum with Rowan leaving it feels critical that you keep Epps, Styles, Fielder and to a lesser degree Cook. Those 4 with the incoming Freshman class and hopefully multiple impact transfers keeps us on the right track at least (regardless of how disappointed I was of this season in terms of improvement) I mean you lose Fielder already I don't even know what to say...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 20, 2024 15:00:16 GMT -5
I found our next PG!
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 20, 2024 10:36:07 GMT -5
I don't buy the NIL argument--Rowan Brumbaugh is not poor, he wasn't run off by grades, and he's not going to be appreciably playing at Northwestern or Richmond. Players like this leave because they don't want to be at Georgetown University, and that's an indictment no matter who is the coach. This is the part of your argument that doesn't work. If Rowan Brumbaugh decides that playing time is an important element in his decision, he's going to go somewhere where he can get it. He is good enough to start somewhere. Jamari Sibley may not be a top player, but he went from 5.6 minutes at Georgetown to 20.5 at UTEP his sophomore year. Whether you think it's a good move or not - it's an appreciable playing time increase. Well in Sibley's case he then lost minutes his second year at UTEP and then transferred again to Southern Utah...however that probably further proves your point in terms of what is the players priority... I think what is going to be difficult for Rowan this time around is he's not going from zero playing time at Texas to 23 minutes per game at Gtown... he's going from 23 minutes at Gtown to where?? I like Rowan a lot but he's not starting at a blue blood or most high major schools...I guess if he is swinging for a mid major and 30 minutes a game Gtown was never going to be for him...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 20, 2024 9:53:28 GMT -5
If your saying from a talent standpoint we can do better for sure... It's negative in the sense he was our only true PG on the team and we absolutely must find one if not two in the Portal. It's negative in the sense that he was one of the players that already transferred and many thought he would then be very likely to stick around and help build back the program. It's negative in the sense of building a culture and an impression to others looking at Gtown that he is willing to walk away so quickly, got ample playing time and with the possibility he has to sit a year if he leaves that he wanted out that badly. Yes I know this is the landscape in college bball unfortunately we are like 6-215 in the last 3 years in the BE and we needed a foundation even if not elite talent... The players that are transferring for the second time are not expecting to have to sit out a year. The NCAA caved in on that rule so it is total free agency every year. Thanks Boston, didn't realize that. Dense do you have that statement by Trilly or whatever he is alluding to I can't find it on X?
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 20, 2024 9:48:17 GMT -5
Unlike everyone here, I don't see this as a negative. If your saying from a talent standpoint we can do better for sure... It's negative in the sense he was our only true PG on the team and we absolutely must find one if not two in the Portal. It's negative in the sense that he was one of the players that already transferred and many thought he would then be very likely to stick around and help build back the program. It's negative in the sense of building a culture and an impression to others looking at Gtown that he is willing to walk away so quickly, got ample playing time and with the possibility he has to sit a year if he leaves that he wanted out that badly. Yes I know this is the landscape in college bball unfortunately we are like 6-215 in the last 3 years in the BE and we needed a foundation even if not elite talent...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 20, 2024 9:18:11 GMT -5
Putting this here I guess?
Someone also stated in the transfer thread...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 17, 2024 9:56:05 GMT -5
Wow that is an incredibly embarrassing graphic...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 17, 2024 9:53:49 GMT -5
If 4th place in the Big East (SHU) doesn’t get you in the tournament with as tough as the Big East was this year, that is the canary in the coal mines that this league is f*****. Spot on. As much as it hurts to root for conference foes if the Big East only gets 3 hell even 4 teams in this year it’s not a good sign for the conferences overall standing in this ongoing power grab. Look at what happened to FSU and how the Big10 and SEC have tried to flex their muscle since. Not disagreeing but also you have to take into account what an odd post season/season this has already been... NC State steals a bid UAB/Temple will steal a bid Atlantic 10 really should only be getting 1 but will have 2 The Mountain West is having a historical year that will never happen again Now you have teams like Indiana St and Princeton with better NET Rankings who loss in their conference tournaments that have good resumes Also Seton Hall did themselves no favors in OOC they basically loss any meaningful quality win chance with the exception of Missouri who stunk this year Lastly and unfortunately for them that have to play Gtown twice and DePaul...where their 2 close wins against us probably hurt them versus helping them Not saying your wrong but I do think we are looking at a very unique season as well...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 17, 2024 7:22:15 GMT -5
Jordan Riley with 16 points and 10 rebounds yesterday for Temple in their upset win over Florida Atlantic. Temple now plays for an insanely unlikely auto-bid for the NCAAs.
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 14, 2024 15:27:52 GMT -5
This defense has not been great so far. Guys are getting beat way too easy off the dribble and way too much space on shooters. LeMoyne can't make us pay. They can't even make a layup. Hope they figure it out. The warning signs were there in game 1 for anyone that says the potentially bad defense was a surprise as the season went on. You just have to know what to look for. It's safe to say they didn't figure it out. Maybe the warning signs were there but I was fully expecting Cooley to right the ship to some degree on the defensive end...no excuses next year...the defense has to be significantly better...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 2, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5
massoud contributing as usual. cooley is insane for having him in at the end of any game Who do we play at the 4 with Styles fouled out and Fielder with 4 fouls. Fielder with 4 until he fouls out
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 2, 2024 21:38:59 GMT -5
Good thing we’ve got Cooley to land the plane. Keep it close until the end and he’ll win it for us. Is Bristol hurt? I mean how is Ish in over him? I was just going to ask the same thing...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 2, 2024 21:38:03 GMT -5
HA Massoud...that defined his season
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 2, 2024 21:34:08 GMT -5
I wonder what the record # of layups in a game is...
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Post by BeantownHoya on Feb 29, 2024 10:37:10 GMT -5
What we really need is a defensive player who will lead a new approach and attitude. At Providence Cooley had Maniya and Carter. We've had Gene Smith and Trawick and many others. Without a tremendous change in our defense we will only see marginal improvement. Cooley knows the type of player he is looking for. Let's use some NIL money on a true defense stopper! I would say the incoming freshman class (maybe Williams being the exception to some degree) are strongly defensively...so hopefully we start getting there...
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