Psu still needs another wing and big but yes transfers look to be quality
Yes, I just went back and verified that he has committed to ND.
Well, early on in the season his play was hesitant. During th BIG tourney and NCAA he showed more toughness and confidence. I think his major drawbacks right now are his hands, he seems to have trouble holding onto the ball when passes come @ him and his lack of offensive moves in the block.
yeah, I suppose
I think the fact that shrews thought guarding Dylan Disu from TX with Miles instead of Njie speaks volumes about where Njie ended last season.
Shrews plays an NBA friendly offense. Rhoads doesn't or hasn't. If I was Corey I'd go with shrews too. It'd be way to easy for rhoads to put him at C instead of stretch 4. Cal knows all about Shrews and Alma mater had zero weight.
personally i didn't understand what the hell he was doing. if he wasn't really going to use Njie down the stretch then he didn't need to worry about Njie collecting fouls. instead we got Disu basically not being guarded all game
i am not sure what you are talking about. VCU has had players selected in each of the past two drafts. PSU might get one this year and he was recruited by Chambers
the booth decision was too bad but we also get back the scholarship he was holding for his own kid. may or may not have been suitable
Yea it was an odd strategy. Could have at least attempted to do some offense/defense substitutions if you liked dread on offense.
He was almost unwatchable early in the year. He did make a nice run at the end of the season.
Supposedly Notre Dame is as bad or worse as PSU when it comes to NIL. They don’t seem to be having any big success in the portal bringing in anyone Shrews didn’t already coach/recruit unlike PSU
That is how I understood it as well. The powers that be at Notre Dame think that athletes should come to school without the enticements of NIL. I think they will learn their lack of success in Football and Basketball in the NIL era will either lead to lowered expectations (which I doubt) or joining the rest of the schools with NIL.
I don't care if they do NIL or not as long as they are forced to join a conference. And to that end, I don't think any major conference should schedule games with them until they do.
May be true, but ND basically got Penn State's basketball team. Hard to imagine an ND fan is super excited about that. It is easy to acknowledge that they are a better program historically, but, that just makes it all the more puzzling. it was not exactly a homerun hire for them. I would argue that Rhoades is easily a better hire and somehow we came out better in this one
I get where you are coming from but I just don't see what there is to put all this value on Shrews. He has had two seasons as a D1 head coach, and the best one was 10th place in the B1G and sneaking into the NCAA tournament picture at the last possible moment. I think we are all undervaluing his agent.
I think you're completely undervaluing his abilities as a coach (recruiter, talent developer, x's and o's, etc). He was here for two seasons and in that time he won a game in the NCAA tournament, made the B1G Championship game, put together two of the best recruiting classes in school history, etc.
Except that ND will not have the 2 PSU players who are in the NBA draft. Other than that I agree. I am most disappointed with losing the recruiting class and particularly Booth who for some reason has remained loyal to the man who stiffed his dad's alma mater when they were trying to give him everything he asked for.
