THERE IS NO PLAYING TIME AVAILABLE.
No kid in his right mind is going to commit here banking on one of our players to get injured.
I would rather pocket the schollys for next year and get good players rather than get some scraps right now.
This reasoning is SO dumb in SO many ways.
#1 We always have injuries.
#2 We always have depth issues.
#3 We have 4 kids returning next year who got a good amount of playing time at this level and 1 who hasn't played in a game for over a year. The rest are unknowns.
#4 Returning kids PTs per Game last year (Troy 13, Gary 10.4, Evans 8.4, Kevin 6.1, Justin 2.4, Quadri 2.1) Thats a whole 42.4 pts from guys who have played at this level.
#5 Limiting your number of scholarships means limited number of quality guys competing in practice every day. Wouldn't you rather have someone who was solid on a lower level D1 team competing against our guys making them better day in and day out rather than Zack Tobler?
#4 Grad transfers are more likely transfer from their school bc they have never, or never will get a chance to go to the tournament. Guess what we are almost a lock every year going to the tournament we are one of less than like 10 teams in the country who have went the last 6 years in a row!
#5 What does wasting 2 scholarships and pocketing them do for us?? Save us 20K on paying for a couple kids schooling? Thank goodness for that. (Sarcasm)
#6 How many times do we talk about how rankings mean so little? Usually we know the top 25 are solid very high level players the rest gets shaky after that. There are kids out there that can play at our level they just need the chance. Some of these kids could be great role players who are grad transfers that could help even if it was just in practice as better competition or to come in and be a extra body that just wants to be a part of what we are doing here.
#7 Get out of the ignorant mindset we have to have a premier top level kid prime time recruit for it to help us in any way filling these 2 spots. You need to look at the bigger picture.
#8 Pocketing scholarships is stupid when you can get a body (even if a mid to high level grad transfer player) in here for a year and still have the scholarship open next year to use just like if no one used it.
#9 If you have ever coached you would know how huge it is to have a couple kids on the team who may not be the best athletes in the world or the tallest or jump the highest ect but just have basketball IQ through the roof. Get a kid who does the little things moves without the ball, cuts, knocks down open shots, makes good decisions, simple passes, just works hard. It is contagious.
Stop with the pocketing scholarships bull crap and stop with finding the "right" player crap. At this point find some roll player kids who have played D1 ball who do all of the little things and are hard workers that want to have a chance at going to the tournament and being a part of what we do here. They might end up surprising someone and being huge for us with an opportunity.
I cant say it enough pocketing scholarships gives us NO chance of having any contribution whatsoever from a diamond in the rough guy who gets an opportunity and has experience playing the game.
