Students are still on break too.
Last time we hosted Cal, I took a Cal alum buddy. I canāt remember if the game started at 8 or 9, but that was the London Parentes hit a game winning 3 after we trailed most of the game and Cal gave the ball to Jaylen Brown to win the game and he didnāt even get a shot off. We got home to Fairfax around 2 AM. I canāt do that anymore.
Yes! This was the Lonions game!
Iām booing IMac bc he missed just about every clutch free throw he ever took in a UVA jersey
Yeah, but he has a friend for life in Kevin Keatts who got another year coaching N. C. State due to IMac.
I havenāt really fully thought through this scenarioā¦ but what wouldāve happened last year if like six or eight guys had done what bliss and Warley did? And just redshirted and sat out to preserve eligibility?
A lot of minutes for Eli Bennett.
Also at that point you might start to threaten NIL payments.. Gotta have a moderately non-embarrassing team.
Didnāt we give a few of them de-facto retention bonuses to play the season?
A clause kicks in where players of the past who Tony didnāt play come back to play.
Taine Murray
Igor Milicic
Justin McKoy
Jay Huff for 2019
Marco Anthony
Austin Nichols
Was McKneely getting paid here? He was offered and committed prior to NIL payments.
He did Good Feet Store commercials
iMacās teammates and coaches were gone, and he probably didnāt feel much of a connection or obligation to the school anymore. By the same token, Odom was at best lukewarm about keeping him. So it seems like a mutual parting.
I canāt fault Odom for wanting to wipe the slate clean, even if it means memory-holing the whole Bennett Era. Heās more a Holland Era guy, anyway. As far as nostalgia goes, I think youāll see more callbacks to the '80s than to the '10s under Odom. Thatās fine. Itās his team now. So far itās working out OK.
More like memory holing the Sanchez eraā¦ I mean does anyone remember any games from
Last year???
Not at the moment. And I always keep a hammer close by. If I start to remember any, I encourage myself to forget them quickly.
That is absolutely happening. The Holland Era eats up what Ryan does.
I looked it up bc I went to the Nova game in Baltimore- and at the time it felt like an offensive explosion. We scored 70 lol. Followed it up with 42 and 55 vs Tennessee and St Johnās. Above 80 twice.
We have it good now.
Going a little deeper on how Cal gets their offense:
I still think this is a good matchup for us, especially with how we want to funnel them into midrange 2s or contested rim attempts. Key will be to limit transition on defense and make them attack a set D.
I guess Iām in the minority here, and agree that what happened to the players last year completely suckedā¦ but I donāt think itās out of bounds for fans to feel some type of way about the way the players responded to it or how they played - and to get on them a bit after they leave and return and are trying to beat us in a game on our home floor.
No need to blame them for leaving or wish that they do poorly when they arenāt playing usā¦ but the idea that the players arenāt at all responsible for that product last year as a group that was getting paid to represent the university on the courtā¦ idk.
Of course, I enjoy it when rivalries get a little heated in sport and I donāt actually think trash talk between players or fans booing or heckling (within reason) is a big deal at all - thatās just part of the mental game. Iāll always think more favorably of guys who finish their collegiate career here as a fan (Leon Bond exceptedā¦ but thereās still hope!), but Iād also like to think that we could, say, get on Isaac McKneely if he had returned in the spirit of competition and still embrace him after his collegiate career is over.
You, sir, are violating the TOS for an in-game thread. Youāre let off on a warning, since the game hasnāt started yet.
I agree, and as a one-time Bleacher Creature I said some nasty things to baseball players who Iām sure were fine young men. But I think your first paragraph over-complicates this, if this = booing one-year rentals like Elijah Saunders and Dai Dai Ames, who are returning with a new team. I suspect whatās going on in the typical fanās brain is more like thisā¦
I didnāt mind Tony hugging Casey Morsellās parents after the game, or anything like that. But while heās on the court, what are we supposed to doācheer for them?