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State of the Union After 3 Games

I'm just not buying into the NIL for our play against the soft part of the OCC schedule. I will agree that it's not going to be a fair fight against UConn, Creighton and the Marquette's of the world. So i n that case yes the NIL is the reasonable argument.
That wasn't exactly an intimidating environment on Long Island.

The coaching staff did a horrendous job. The game focus is terrible, the basketball IQ was awful, ball handling below average, three point shooting abysmal, free throw shooting at crunch tine more than alarming. Having said that if the coach did not force the second unit to get their minutes, it should have been a win, Some of that was true against Fordham. Even the defense did not get in done in vital moments. This looks like a 20 loss team at this point.

State of the Union After 3 Games

Do you want to go down to mid major league or be last or next to last in conference every year.I say go down a level so you hsve chance to be competitive in every game.UCONN,Creighton,Marquette,Xavier etc. beat us by 20 every year and you can get any seat you want at the Rock.Got to organize a league with all teams n same boat as us not competitive to play with the bug boys in NILcurrently 5 teams in BE in top 25 potentially 10 predictable in conference losses so i would say our realistic conference wins is 4/5.some posters saying anybody blaming NIL is a cry baby.We just lost our 2 top players to NIL so it is reality we can’t hope or explain away.
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State of the Union After 3 Games

He deserves patience, but you can’t stack losses against bad teams. All the games matter. Even if Holloway manages to get the season turned around, we already have one and maybe two big black marks on the resume.
Ok - If the goal of the season is to make the tournament, the season is over. It would take a miracle to recover from these losses. We had really no bad losses last year, and had wins over UCONN and Marquette and did not make the tournament along with going 13-7 in Big East.

State of the Union After 3 Games

I'm afraid we'll look back in a number of years and realize the NIL is the demise of major college football and basketball.The sports are becoming mini professional leagues.I agree that eventually the conferences will need to be realigned on size of NIL budgets.Likely SHU will be in a Northeastern schools mid major type conference or back to pre Big East days.Won't be the end of the world.
The no sitout year is even worse. There is no yearly free agency in any major sport in this country.
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Not what the median is in this country but a good one?

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