Thank You and Good Luck Sim

mm52 said:
Very sad to see. We lost two great teammates in Sim and Brady. Sim was especially supportive and happy for Zuby during the emotional chants of Zu-by, Zu-by during the warmup line before the UVa game in the Bahamas, after the tough missed free throws against Baylor. I think the players bonded after that and the long-forgotten fiasco with Deivon after the Georgia game on the way home.
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Again it sucks, but it is big business these days. Sentimentally is dead in college basketball.

These guys are now pros, not amateurs
 
billthetruth said:
"Best bet is to root for the name on the front of the jersey" Said that yesterday. Until some on this board come to that realization, they will be unhappy.

Be glad Zuby is back as the captain. Leaders like him help in this crazy portal world.

Just think what it would be like here if the players coming in were not better than the ones we are losing.

We have added 2 high 5-star recruits and an excellent shooter and ascending player in Sellers coming in and some are crying in their cheerios right now because Wilcher is leaving. I really like Sim as a person, but as Mkras said yesterday he is overrated from a skills standpoint. His handle is way to loose to be given PG responsibilities.

This is College Basketball 2025. It aint calming down until the Pitino 2 year contracts and reduced transfer opportunities are considered and implemented.
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Yup. It's strictly business at this point. This is why I said pray Rick never retires, because we are benefitting from the current landscape.

When guys like Wilcher aren't cutting it, and are seeking shelter elsewhere, that should tell you something.
 
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Man this one stings. On the last game of the year during a 1st half timeout when Sim had played about 2 minutes due to foul woes, he took Lefty aside and was pounding his chest, clapping in his face, trying everything he could to psych up his young teammate. This kid will be missed and I do believe he will be a star wherever he ends up!
 
sirvoo said:
Man this one stings. On the last game of the year during a 1st half timeout when Sim had played about 2 minutes due to foul woes, he took Lefty aside and was pounding his chest, clapping in his face, trying everything he could to psych up his young teammate. This kid will be missed and I do believe he will be a star wherever he ends up!
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He will be missed. Wish him all the best, but just don't see star right now.
People tend to overrate their own guys, it is human nature. Hope I'm wrong
If he doesn't show more maturity on court (not looking at his father in stands after every play that goes against him) he will have hard time reaching his potential
 
Demo said:
No guardrails = Mid-level programs devastated
No guardrails = Low level Division 1 programs Extinct
No guardrails = High School kids inconsequential or insignificant
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St. John’s has benefited more from the elimination of guardrails than any other team with potentially the exception of SMU football.

Sim was a good big east starter, really easy to root for, and a high character guy. It would be awesome to have had him stay, but when you enact a strategy of only recruiting players from the portal, attrition and turnover is going to be this high year after year.

My distaste for Pitino is well known, but to his credit he was very upfront about this at least to the media.

Unfortunately if we want the good of being able to headhunt players because of our NIL budget, we are also going to have to accept losing good players too.

Zuby, Ayo, and Pitino are all that’s left from the 2023 class.
 
RedStormRising said:
St. John’s has benefited more from the elimination of guardrails than any other team with potentially the exception of SMU football.

Sim was a good big east starter, really easy to root for, and a high character guy. It would be awesome to have had him stay, but when you enact a strategy of only recruiting players from the portal, attrition and turnover is going to be this high year after year.

My distaste for Pitino is well known, but to his credit he was very upfront about this at least to the media.

Unfortunately if we want the good of being able to headhunt players because of our NIL budget, we are also going to have to accept losing good players too.

Zuby, Ayo, and Pitino are all that’s left from the 2023 class.
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Baylor won a championship a few years ago, and are flipping the entire roster.

There is no continuity. There is no loyalty. There is only one thing that matters, and one thing only, and that is money.

Just the reality of professional basketball at the college level.
 
Sim and Glover were the type of high level recruits that Pitino was going after to form the foundation of his team as they learned his system for some sustained success. It seems like he's pivoting for recruiting over some of his existing players for someone with proven success. That may not necessarily translate into the players buying into his system and gelling sufficiently enough early in the season, when success in high level OOC games are necessary for us to secure an NCAA bid.
 
mm52 said:
Sim and Glover were the type of high level recruits that Pitino was going after to form the foundation of his team as they learned his system for some sustained success. It seems like he's pivoting for recruiting over some of his existing players for someone with proven success. That may not necessarily translate into the players buying into his system and gelling sufficiently enough early in the season, when success in high level OOC games are necessary for us to secure an NCAA bid.
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Overthinking the importance of Sim and Glover to W/Ls.

When Jackson is dropping 25 points in those OC games, I just don't think much talk about will be about not having those 2 on the team.
 
I think Sim has proven, and it’s why college basketball will always be the best sport in the land, that if you try hard, perform well, and are a good guy, the fans will connect to your journey.

He was east to cheerful and there will always be people and stories like his in college basketball no matter how much the NCAA or broadcasters or NIL collectives try to mess with it.
 
paultzman said:
And unless the powers to be, whoever that is, allow two year player contracts and some rational transfer limits, this continues. Just think, we will right back there filling big gaps next year. Nice to have the NIL support we have, but some of the enjoyment of college ball is headed to extinction.
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It's pro sports - only worse because there are no rules or contracts to provide any stability at all.

Love the game. Hate the system.
 
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