The most important recruiting he’s going to be doing over the next few weeks is his own team. I hope he knocks it out if the park with that and then can add 1-2 transfers instead of 4-5.
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Realistically there is no amount of recruiting Coach can do if anyone playing major minutes wants to hit the portal. We are looking at being a single digit seed for the next two years if we can keep this core together. Those decisions (if they happen) will likely be out of his control.
Hopefully the NIL hat is getting passed around.
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A single digit seed is good house money to bargain with. Part of the problem is the other player has a presumptive single digit baked into the equation because their P5 and they have $100k to throw at a player.
It’s probably a lot more than $100k that will be thrown around. Maybe 3-4 times that much.
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Tell me what happened with Wheeler at Louisville? That was a terrible team and he didn’t play much at all. In the doghouse with the coach? Lack of effort? Lack of improvement? Injuries? Feels like a lot of people want him back home here bc he was a big recruit but I need more here.
Certainly a valid question. Even in the games where Wheeler got double digit minutes there wasn't much production.
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Wow, Wichita State didn't waste any time getting rid of their head coach who was COY in the AAC in 2021. Two middling seasons and boom, gone.
Yeah, I'm hoping that after a few years of kids going places that aren't good for their futures and "investors" not getting good returns for their money on a lot of players this will slow down some.
Again, I'm all for NIL, but people are getting paid to play basketball, not NIL, or in some cases (see Hasan) just to sit on the bench.
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@VCU Heel we offered him. What's the word? Any feeling about if we have a shot this time around?
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I hope we can get someone better. His 2 year stats at unc are headscratching.
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With the portal becoming such a big thing for all the teams in the Spring, we might see a lot more HS recruits commits in the Fall rather than having to compete against all the other HS recruits + the portal.
I only saw a couple of games where he got any run at all. Played good D, got some rebounds, except for screening on high ball screens was almost totally ignored on offense. He was open on some screen and rolls but the guards just went one on one instead of getting him the ball. That might be one of the signs of why they were not a good team.
From watching VCU play Dayton three times, we had trouble with their big men, and watching the St. Mary's game I would think the VCU basketball priority is to bring in a big man either through the transfer portal, or through the junior college route.