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[L J S A]

Excellent article by Andy Katz
Guess who is #12?
THE JOHNNIES!!!

Enjoy!!

[URL]https://www.ncaa.com/news/bask...-27/12-summer-mens-college-basketball-winners[/URL]

We're sharing that list with some impressive names too. Good stuff.

Hopefully we don't bleed players again and transfer mania dies down across the country, but if it ever happens again, we probably need to take a deep breath and go for a walk before posting the very first angry thoughts in our head. Staff did a great job.

 

[Amaseinyourface]

Excellent article by Andy Katz
Guess who is #12?
THE JOHNNIES!!!

Enjoy!!

[URL]https://www.ncaa.com/news/bask...-27/12-summer-mens-college-basketball-winners[/URL]

We're sharing that list with some impressive names too. Good stuff.

Hopefully we don't bleed players again and transfer mania dies down across the country, but if it ever happens again, we probably need to take a deep breath and go for a walk before posting the very first angry thoughts in our head. Staff did a great job.

I’m happy with how the off-season turned out. The staff had to replace a lot and did an excellent job. But if we are gonna call Mathis and Wheeler major contributors, then the guys we lost were major contributors as well.

 

[L J S A]

Excellent article by Andy Katz
Guess who is #12?
THE JOHNNIES!!!

Enjoy!!

[URL]https://www.ncaa.com/news/bask...-27/12-summer-mens-college-basketball-winners[/URL]

We're sharing that list with some impressive names too. Good stuff.

Hopefully we don't bleed players again and transfer mania dies down across the country, but if it ever happens again, we probably need to take a deep breath and go for a walk before posting the very first angry thoughts in our head. Staff did a great job.

I’m happy with how the off-season turned out. The staff had to replace a lot and did an excellent job. But if we are gonna call Mathis and Wheeler major contributors, then the guys we lost were major contributors as well.

I think Moore was huge loss. If you ask me to name another big loss, I'm just going to repeat Moore's name. That said, I think this was the best place for him and not sure he puts up the numbers this season that I expected him to do for us.

 

[Amaseinyourface]

Excellent article by Andy Katz
Guess who is #12?
THE JOHNNIES!!!

Enjoy!!

[URL]https://www.ncaa.com/news/bask...-27/12-summer-mens-college-basketball-winners[/URL]

We're sharing that list with some impressive names too. Good stuff.

Hopefully we don't bleed players again and transfer mania dies down across the country, but if it ever happens again, we probably need to take a deep breath and go for a walk before posting the very first angry thoughts in our head. Staff did a great job.

I’m happy with how the off-season turned out. The staff had to replace a lot and did an excellent job. But if we are gonna call Mathis and Wheeler major contributors, then the guys we lost were major contributors as well.

I think Moore was huge loss. If you ask me to name another big loss, I'm just going to repeat Moore's name. That said, I think this was the best place for him and not sure he puts up the numbers this season that I expected him to do for us.

I really wasn’t even talking about the talent of the guys who left, just their production. We had a handful of guys who were more productive than those two.

 

[lawmanfan]

 

I really wasn’t even talking about the talent of the guys who left, just their production. We had a handful of guys who were more productive than those two.
 

To some extent it's an apples-to-oranges comparison, don't you think?  You can certainly say that Moore, maybe Earlington, maybe Williams were more productive HERE than Mathis and Wheeler were ELSEWHERE.  But I think it's too soon to know whether Wheeler and Mathis will turn out to be more productive HERE than the players who are now ELSEWHERE.  We'll have to see how they produce in this system before that answer is known.

 

[usguard]

I didn’t find them all that talented ,think what we now have is far better. Just  MO BUT I ThINK we are going to be much better if iT COMES TO PSSS then we upped our level of talent by a lot
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[Amaseinyourface]

 

I really wasn’t even talking about the talent of the guys who left, just their production. We had a handful of guys who were more productive than those two.

 

To some extent it's an apples-to-oranges comparison, don't you think?  You can certainly say that Moore, maybe Earlington, maybe Williams were more productive HERE than Mathis and Wheeler were ELSEWHERE.  But I think it's too soon to know whether Wheeler and Mathis will turn out to be more productive HERE than the players who are now ELSEWHERE.  We'll have to see how they produce in this system before that answer is known.

To be clear I’m not comparing them as players and not tryin to take a slight at Mathis or wheeler. What I’m saying is if you consider those two as major contributors on their previous teams then you certainly have to consider Williams, Moore, Dunn, and Marcellus as major contributors. Conversely, I wouldn’t have mentioned anything if they labeled Soriano, Smith or Cobern as major contributors.

 

[fuchsia]

I always come back to the Dominique Wilkins question, "Does he make his teammates better?"  My suspicion about CMA is that he asks that question all the time and knows what system he is applying it to.

 

[SJU85]

A little dated but Julian gets more love.

The old college try: Building a U.S. Olympic men’s team with no pros 
https://theathletic.com/2715462/202...team-with-no-pros/?source=user_shared_article

11. Julian Champagnie, 6-8 junior, St. John’s (Hamilton)We can’t ever have enough wings, and Liddell joining the roster one pick before this one eliminates an internal debate as to who belongs. Champagnie’s ability to stretch the floor as a 37.7 percent 3-point shooter with size (6-8, 220) makes him a natural fit. He rebounds well enough and while he’s not quite the same level of defender as Liddell, the difference isn’t all that stark. Besides, this pretend Team USA front office tends to favor the long-range gunslingers who may or may not be terribly interested in defense, because that’s the sort of ball we can all rally around as a nation.

 

[MarkRedman]

Steve DeMeo has been hired as an assistant coach at East Carolina per Zach B
Wishing him the best of luck in his new job
Hope it leads to another head coaching position in the future

 

[MarkRedman]

Only 2 Big East teams made Athlon Magazine's preseason Top 25
Villanova is #7 and UConn checks in at #21


1. Gonzaga        10. Arkansas                18. Tennessee
2. UCLA             11. Purdue                   19. Maryland
3. Kansas          12. North Carolina         20. Alabama
4. Texas             13. Oregon                   21. UConn
5. Michigan         14. Ohio State              22. USC
6. Duke              15. Illinois                     23. Va Tech
7. Villanova         16. Houston                 24. Michigan State
8. Baylor             17. Florida State          25. Auburn
9. Kentucky

 

[paultzman]

As the Big 12 continues to consider expansion, four leading candidates have emerged in [URL]https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/252/byu-cougars[/URL]]BYU[/url], [URL]https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2116/ucf-knights[/URL]]UCF[/url], [URL]https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/2132/cincinnati-bearcats[/URL]]Cincinnati[/url] and [URL]https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/248/houston-cougars[/URL]]Houston[/url], sources confirmed to ESPN, as formal invitations could be extended to these schools during the college football season.

[URL]https://www.espn.com/college-f...p-candidates-big-12-expansion-sources-confirm[/URL]

 

[paultzman]

According to sources the Big 12 Presidents will take part in a call Monday to discuss expansion and potentially issue invitations to @UHouston, @BYU, @UCF and @uofcincy.

https://twitter.com/markbermanfox26/status/1433817126616317954?s=21

 

[Las Vegan]

I guess SMU and Memphis didn't make the cut. Really guts the AAC.

 

[Section9]

I guess SMU and Memphis didn't make the cut. Really guts the AAC.

They went in the crapper when yukon left./media/kunena/emoticons/tongue.png
 

 

[Las Vegan]

A number of future moves to come:
West Coast Conference loses BYU, so they might consider Seattle, Grand Canyon or Denver, if they want tenth member.
AAC is down to eight football members, so I guess they raid the Sunbelt, Conference USA , MAC or possibly Mountain West to restock, but they are not all that attractive. Navy might reconsider joining Army as an independent, in football.
 Big 12 made the best moves possible for them, and they survive the loss of Texas and Oklahoma.

 

[L J S A]

A number of future moves to come:
West Coast Conference loses BYU, so they might consider Seattle, Grand Canyon or Denver, if they want tenth member.
AAC is down to seven football members, so I guess they raid the Sunbelt, Conference USA , MAC or possibly Mountain West to restock, but they are not all that attractive. Navy might reconsider joining Army as an independent, in football.
 Big 12 made the best moves possible for them, and they survive the loss of Texas and Oklahoma.

I think the WCC only expanded because BYU was too big a name to refuse. I can see them staying put at pre-BYU level.

Time for Memphis to go independent in football or park it somewhere else, and go to the Big East for everything else. /media/kunena/emoticons/cool.png

 

[Mean Gene]

A number of future moves to come:
West Coast Conference loses BYU, so they might consider Seattle, Grand Canyon or Denver, if they want tenth member.
AAC is down to seven football members, so I guess they raid the Sunbelt, Conference USA , MAC or possibly Mountain West to restock, but they are not all that attractive. Navy might reconsider joining Army as an independent, in football.
 Big 12 made the best moves possible for them, and they survive the loss of Texas and Oklahoma.

I think the WCC only expanded because BYU was too big a name to refuse. I can see them staying put at pre-BYU level.

Time for Memphis to go independent in football or park it somewhere else, and go to the Big East for everything else. /media/kunena/emoticons/cool.png

Fed Ex has been a huge donor to the Memphis program the same way Nike has been to Oregon. Fed Ex has there  transit hub in Memphis. It’s a huge operation. Memphis has the resources to blow that program out. It seems like the people they have running that program aren’t up to the task. 
 

 

[Las Vegan]

I was discussing the Big 12 situation with a friend, who is pretty connected to the athletic dept., at his West Virginia alma mater, and we both guessed that Cincinnati and Houston were the obvious choices and Memphis would be next. Then; either UCF or BYU. The league felt differently and now has a conference covering three time zones.
BYU has obvious advantages of strong programs, good facilities and a fanatic fan base, but they won't play on Sundays and their duplicitous behavior , in their dealings with the Mountain West, about 15 years ago, mirrored what BC and ND did to the Big East a few years ago. They can definitely sell tickets, home and away.

 

[SLYFOXX1968]

Other than $$$$ why would anyone want Memphis in the BE?