I guess my hope that the staff had a grad transfer locked up who didn't want to announce he was transferring for whatever reason until the semester ended is running out of steam.
Transfers SJU May Get Involved With
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redfanUpooooooo
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IF Johnnies sign Beverly and Rooks I would say we had an adequate transfer haul. With added beef we would have more fouls to burn, more rebounding strength, and some capabilities to defend bigs. In addition, a guard to offset a future loss of one of our guards. Top 25 team in my estimation. They gotta get them though. We then need to learn to play defense, which should be off-season focus.
Ray Morgan
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Spin it any way you want, the lack of positive news in the past few months has us trending the wrong way. I include the Ewing hire as another problem for us, as I believe he will be tough to recruit against when it comes to the bigs.
Class of 72
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Given the conundrum the staff is in with our front court if Darien Williams still leaves what does that tell you about how he feels about Mullin and staff?
A lot of negative vibes out there.
I'm feeling plenty negative that we couldn't land one single big guy, offering tons of PT and a quality team surrounding them. We should have had an easy time picking up one decent quality grad big man. Not sure why we shot a blank here...
I think we definitely need another coach/recruiter here. We are playing shorthanded right now. If Rice is that guy, I'm fine with it. He's got lots of energy, good practice coach and would have us defending well. He's also got good contacts and can effectively recruit. I think he's changed too.
I think we definitely need another coach/recruiter here. We are playing shorthanded right now. If Rice is that guy, I'm fine with it. He's got lots of energy, good practice coach and would have us defending well. He's also got good contacts and can effectively recruit. I think he's changed too.
L J S A
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Pretty sure he liked the staff until he was pushed out the door. Would you go back and help them out once they realized they made a mistake?
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It's also possible they they still don't want him back. A few extra ppg couldn't hurt, but maybe staff doesn't see it that way?
I wasn't in the room to overhear any conversations, though. Maybe it went down a third way.
Top 25 team? I doubt they would be a top 25 team even if they signed the best big in the 2017 class or via transfer. Improved yes, Top 25 team no way.
Maybe he asked to transfer because he felt that he could play between 23-30 minutes a game somewhere else. Think about this:
Simon PG
Ponds Wing
Lovett Wing
That leaves 2 starting positions between :
Ahmad
Yawke
Clark
Owens
There is the slight chance that Williams thought he might get lost in the shuffle.
The fact that Paultman gave a "thank you" to this post gives me pause, since that lends credibility to that thinking, but that is just an implausible thought process, even for a young kid like Williams. Most of those players DO NOT compete for the minutes he would have had. Except in the most extraordinary case, a successful team needs a few big men to shuffle around; he would have been, with Owens and Yakwe, one of those guys. Coming off his performance this year, he would have had a leg up on Yakwe and another new big. No, the more plausible is that he thought (like we did) that the staff was bringing in someone to compete for those minutes (at least one additional big) and he did not want to have to compete with 3 other guys, being it is his final season. THAT makes more sense to me.