I suppose I disagree. I see weak teams in the Pac 12 (Stanford and Cal?). Not sold on BYU or Washington, so Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s and at best Xavier.
Not as strong as ours, imo. I admittedly didn’t do the homework here, but I think if one compares this to the non-conference schedules of the other 3 Final 4 teams it is weaker.
I am not trashing them at all. It just surprised me given their success last season.
Probably not unexpected, but when do we get in the game…assuming we haven’t.
Wally Walker is going to have a big hand in NIL
From all that I’ve heard we are in the NIL game and our players do pretty well in getting compensated. The Wally Walker hire will also further help.
I don’t expect us to ever be throwing bags around like an SEC school or UNC does but I think we’ve actually had a solid amount of initiative when it comes to NIL, at least in sports like basketball and baseball.
Man I hope so. Right now it’s a struggle
SDSU only returns around 40% of their minutes, so I think it’s reasonable to not schedule like they are an elite team.
That’s fair. They are roughly No. 12 in the preseason Top 25 rankings though. Being from San Diego I root for the team, but it seemed a little light to me. I think I have been corrected by a few people, however!
#12 is very optimistic for them, I understand why people might rank them there, as they’ve been good to great over the past 4 years, but conditions were right for them peaking last season in a way that might not be true this season. They had a super-old team that also was returning 70% of their minutes; that was the culmination of steady increases in returning minutes and experience over the past 4 years. Now they are only around a little above average in terms of experience; you probably know better than I do about how good their younger guys are expected to be, but there are a lot of quality minutes that have departed that need to be filled in.
For football, yeah. For hoops, not what I’ve been told.
Yeah, if our hoops NIL was hurting, Reece would be in the G league, overseas, or another program that could bid way higher.
100%
The way the NCAA handled the waiver situation the past few years – at least back to Brax, when I started following it – was to encourage kids to come up with very personal and emotional reasons to justify the waiver (health of loved ones, mental health) and now the policy is more or less, one auto waiver and then more or less no waivers after that. No matter how heartbreaking and genuine your personal situaiton is.
So basically you trained a generation of kids and compliance folks to lean into really sad, emotional reasons for waivers. And then you took that away. Whatever one thinks of the merits or demerits of that, you’re just guaranteeing a year of bad publicity:
https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1701998279909691720?s=20
(I kinda think the NCAA is doing the right thing, but they are really gonna piss people off)
Bamisile’s situation is different in that he’s transferring closer to home but was always within that 300 mile radius that I believe the NCAA uses as the threshold for “coming home” for a hardship waiver. VT, then GWU, now VCU. Most other instances guys are coming from at least a few states away.
If you’re coming home to spend time with your dad after open-heart surgery, I don’t see what’s so problematic about using a redshirt year to actually spend more time with your dad.
Yeah, which is why I kind of often roll my eyes at the “victimization angle” of a forced redshirt. At the end of the day (a) you’re still on scholarship to get your college education, (b) free to earn some NIL on top of it, and (c) you still get the same 4 years of playing opportunity everyone else gets, just a matter of when exactly you get it. There’s very little actual material damage being done here, unless your sick family member has a finite lifespan left and you want them to be able to see you play one last time I guess.
Yeah I hope his dads alright but I don’t feel sorry for a kid that’s on his 4th school in as many years.
Good to see he’s sticking with the current pronunciation of his last name.
Just out there casually draining threes.
