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Damn even Depaul is 8-2

They should be 9-1. Had an 8 point lead at home to Providence late and really should have had that one. Fun team to watch. Their NIL?? Recruiting looks solid.
 
The killer for us were the 3 bad losses. Flip Fordham, Hofstra, and Monmouth and you've still got a pulse at 8-3 with the quality win over VCU and favorable opening 6 games to the BE. We'd have been in better shape than last year's non-conf.
 
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The next step for DePaul will be how they play on the road. I still need to see that. At home I think they will be a challenge especially if they put some people in their building. They are fun to watch.
 
Their Coach is legit. Always got the most out of his Butler teams. Probably better off at a smaller school. Not surprised he got them turned around that quickly.

Guessing he had assurances upon taking the job that there would be pay-for-play support. Otherwise, it's been a coaching graveyard.
 
The next step for DePaul will be how they play on the road. I still need to see that. At home I think they will be a challenge especially if they put some people in their building. They are fun to watch.
From TV, it looked like they had about 50 people at the Providence game. But I only caught a few minutes.
 
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Depaul endowment is 3x more than Seton Hall. these perennially bad "bigger" schools can try to buy their way out of the cellar. and their coaching hire was good.

depaul has also produced a bunch of NBA guys so they can use money earned to overcome a lot of things.
 
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They’re no longer inept but I wouldn’t say they’re any good. They’re 8-2 agains the 356th schedule. They’re 8th in 3PA:FGA, 10th in 3PT%. Bombs away!

They shot 17/33 from 3 against WSU, their best win.
 
Holtman didn’t always play that way at Butler.

Seems the strategy year 1 because of the recruiting challenges is to get a bunch of kids who might not be the most athletic or versatile group but can make 3s, and take a million of them.
 
Keep Coleman, Middleton, Dual, Godswill, Manny, Gus, Felton. Add offensive talent.
 
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They are putting our name as last place in conference hope it doesn’t become a pattern,but afraid it might.
 
I'm with you here. Coleman is obvious. Manny looks the part of the best interior presence we have. Middleton you can project even if the performance to date has been subpar. Felton and Godswill -- unless they think they massively missed on the evaluation out of HS.

Dual is the enigma to me right now. Expected way more. He's starting to get the "Long treatment" from some of our board too because they desperately want him to work out. "Long treatment" refers to how that kid was discussed his first year. Posh was playing terrific as a freshman and because of that some of our board members so desperately wanted Long to do anything that would remotely make them feel better about it (why that matters, who knows, but you probably need a bottle of Makers and some therapy sessions to get to the root of it). So every time Long would do anything during a a game, it would pumped up way beyond reality (Long looked "solid" today bringing the ball up past the half life and immediately passing to one of our guards, and played "solid D" because you can most always point to a kid playing "solid D" unless he is blatantly and repeatedly getting torched in the half court).

I see that starting to bleed into the Dual comments game in, game out. I expected way more at this point.
 
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