“Oh you switched schools to be with me. I don’t really like that. See ya”
Locker room might been toast … might explain some of our slump.
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NIL is going to collapse and be replaced by some kind of regulation, but in the meantime… if we’re not playing the NIL game, what’s our value prop? It used to be that “excellent coach, great school” was a strong pitch. Now the other guy is offering to pay you $100 grand and our pitch feels awfully quaint.
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Attitude problem exposed
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I mean Tony has a half a bill in nba contracts on his ledger. That’s his pitch.
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yeah and entitlement. He played hard for sure but probably didn’t feel deserving to some of the things that came his way
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So our pitch would be “development.” Which would be a strong draw if true; I don’t follow enough other programs closely enough to know to how strong our case is there relative to everyone else. (Somehow you’ve gotta measure not just who you’ve put in the NBA, but who you didn’t, and also how likely they all were to have gotten there and succeeded there anyway. And I think a case could be made that we haven’t made great strides with our bigs.)
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not many other coaches have a half a bill in nba contracts. Bigs are a fair criticism but if you are a top 50-100 wing then uva is the place to be. Reason Dunn was willing to pay his way.
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I’m not arguing with that as a pitch, I’m just wanting to be convinced of our development ability by a more fine-tuned metric than flat $ amount of NBA contracts from former players. (For example, I think Dre would have a big contract whether he came to UVA or not. Trey too. Huff might be doing better if he’d gone elsewhere. Brogdon and Harris might be doing worse if they’d gone elsewhere. I’m not giving K any credit for Zion’s contract. It’s the delta you’d like to get at, which is really hard to do.)
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I am ok with this transfer more than Traudt’s because it seems like this was coming for awhile given Tony’s references to lack of effort last season and frustration this season. Maybe that was a reference to Shedrick and maybe not but something was clearly broken between the staff and Shedrick. Traudt though, he wasn’t on last year’s team. The lack of effort thing isn’t a potential explanation.
you asked what our value prop is and it’s getting top 50-100 big guards/wings to the league.
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Yes - I think a good case can be made. And it’s interesting because the first number of years I feel like we had great success developing bigs (Meyinsse, Scott, Mitchell, Atkins, Salt, Wilkins). And if I remember correctly, it was JWilly who was working with the bigs. I would feel better about JWilly being the coaching heir apparent if we got back to having our bigs become stalwarts defensively and show improved offensive game year over year.
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I kind of feel the other way about our Big development. Especially offensively.
I kind of alluded to this in the Intel Report. it was the reason most were sure he’d leave. Even after things ended well for him and fences were mended, by that time feelers were out and Kadin knew his value I guess you’d say.
I don’t think that’ll be all that matters to him but yeah it’ll be a factor for sure. At this point he has a degree, this is basically the first stop of his pro career.
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I think Merle Haggard called that “the fighting side of me. Or as the Femmes sang, “you can all just kiss off into the air.”
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I’m liking college hoops and football less each day in the NIL/portal era.
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It changes the game or the feel esp in basketball where it’s easier to jump acclimate and make an impact.
If NIL is truly a big factor for Sheds and I don’t doubt it is, I’m totally fine with him leaving. I have no problem paying NIL to players bit Sheds is not worth 6figures to me. Need to be far more consistent and be more than a role guy at that price.
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Making 200k on a college campus sure beats schlepping around Slovakia with three other dudes that speak English for the same money.
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