Bud Boomer said:

All these schools stuffing their NIL coffers and we are paying to play in a watered down Maui.

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SHUsez said:

Ok we've beaten NIL, we suck, Fire Sha (news flash he's the prodigal son of Willard, a nobody to the University got time Sha deserves that too) and our upper management sucks to high heaven to death. It's been touched up on in different threads but don't recall a true thread for what players actually should stay. I know people want everyone gone, but if we want to build ie Marquette and UConn we need to RETAIN. So who do we want to keep, take NIL out, if we can keep the guys we have who stays? My list:

Coleman - obvious
Middleton - I think he's shown flashes and him being out has hurt
Aligbe - strongest player at times for us, his ability to finish an old fashioned 3 point play is skill
Felton - shows flashes
Dual - I think he's finally starting to get it, or realize he won't get another gig at a high major of this one fails
Yalden - everyone seems to like him, I don't see it but I'll trust what others see
Godswill - Had a good game today and I think he can grow

...I like Tubek but it's looking like the door for him.

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hallstorm said:

1). Ok if Louisville offered him a substantive figure that should merit a higher per year salary.

2). Stop with the “where the program was when he took over” rhetoric. If you’re following college basketball one iota, you know it’s a year-to-year endeavor and uphill battle.

Do you honestly think kids care how good North Carolina or Indiana or Villanova have been traditionally if they get offered $500k-$1m more from another school?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news if you believe the entire state of college basketball is anything like it was 2 years ago and beyond.

I can’t argue a belief vs truth and fact. That’s your call

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phelanma said:

Amongst Willards biggest issues at Seton Hall was recruiting. Outside of that one class, most of his classes underwhelmed. Now money runs recruiting not selling the program as much, which offsets Willard's biggest weakness: closing the deal with a recruit.

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NYShoreGuy said:

Big east is not a P5 league for now there is a P4...the big east is a great hoops primary sport league but it is not a power conference

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hallwins said:

I think long term him playing at St John's, coupled with our on court performance, helped to wake up the university leaders.

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Seton75 said:

yes. that is some d they play. Reminds me of the best pj teams. tough and fundamental. we stopped karaban last yr and sj did today. very imoressed with sju.

luis and kr are a helluva combo.

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ivyhillparkk1963 said:

The three from Wed and now Okorafor..
Ugh

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SHUsez said:

Ok we've beaten NIL, we suck, Fire Sha (news flash he's the prodigal son of Willard, a nobody to the University got time Sha deserves that too) and our upper management sucks to high heaven to death. It's been touched up on in different threads but don't recall a true thread for what players actually should stay. I know people want everyone gone, but if we want to build ie Marquette and UConn we need to RETAIN. So who do we want to keep, take NIL out, if we can keep the guys we have who stays? My list:

Coleman - obvious
Middleton - I think he's shown flashes and him being out has hurt
Aligbe - strongest player at times for us, his ability to finish an old fashioned 3 point play is skill
Felton - shows flashes
Dual - I think he's finally starting to get it, or realize he won't get another gig at a high major of this one fails
Yalden - everyone seems to like him, I don't see it but I'll trust what others see
Godswill - Had a good game today and I think he can grow

...I like Tubek but it's looking like the door for him.

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Seton75 said:

everyonexwho played today played hard

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Robot_Man said:

The article is paywalled. Here's a podcast (with transcript) that the WSJ did with one of the authors. Some excerpts:

Ryan Knutson: Over the next eight months, Tom and a team of reporters spoke with several current and former US, European, and Russian officials who confirmed the contact between Musk and Putin. And why was this such a big deal?

Thomas Grove: It raises all kinds of important questions, because this is the richest man in the world and the United States' most powerful, important and influential businessman, and on the other end of the line, you have Vladimir Putin, who has obviously emerged in the last decade or so as the United States' chief adversary.

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Ryan Knutson: In September of 2022, Ukraine tried to use Starlink terminals for an attack on a Russian naval base in Crimea, but the plan failed.

Thomas Grove: They wouldn't work around Crimea. Musk had basically decided that they weren't going to support Starlink around Crimea.

Ryan Knutson: Musk later said he declined a request to activate Starlink in the area because he didn't want SpaceX to be complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation. The decision sparked huge backlash. Ukrainian and other foreign officials accused Musk of siding with Russia. After The Journal's story about Musk and Putin published, SpaceX said in a post on X that Starlink had kept Ukrainians online during the conflict. It added that Starlink has defended against efforts to disrupt service. In October of 2022, Musk tweeted a proposed peace plan, which included having Ukraine remain neutral outside of NATO and cede Crimea to Russia.

Thomas Grove: And he called the Soviet leader Khrushchev, his gifting of Crimea to Ukraine under the Soviet Union, a mistake.

Ryan Knutson: Which is sort of like Russia's point of view and Putin's point of view, essentially. That Ukraine, and particularly the Crimea region, that belongs to Russia.

Thomas Grove: Exactly. That is completely in line with the Russian narrative, that Crimea is, was, and always will be Russian.

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Ryan Knutson: There was one exchange that really stood out and it had to do with Taiwan, which China sees as part of its territory. A former Russian intelligence official briefed on the situation told The Journal that Putin had a request. According to the source...

Thomas Grove: Russia had tried to do a favor for China. Basically tried to do a favor for Beijing, to say just make sure that Starlink is never turned on over Taiwan. And so that was one of the most specific pieces of information from the calls that we were aware of.

Ryan Knutson: It's unclear how Musk responded to Putin's request. SpaceX said on Friday that Taiwan hasn't given Starlink a license to operate and that Taiwan has declined to remove a regulatory hurdle for operations. SpaceX said the fact that it doesn't operate there has "nothing to do with Russia and China." A representative of the Chinese embassy in Washington said they weren't aware of the specifics and couldn't comment. And what has the Kremlin and Putin said?

Thomas Grove: Well, the Kremlin said that there's been one call between the two; that they spoke about space, they talked about science, now and in the future.

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LBP43 said:

Creighton quietly stalking the Johnies and KR will re-meet his Nemesis --should be really interesting

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Halldan1 said:

First winner

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Jcordasco1952 said:

Clearly no one want to play on this team.

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MBF72 said:

Felton looks as if he is under-the-weather.

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