I think he wanted to recruit proven scorers but a leopard doesn’t change his spots and he can never get past the idea they won’t play high level D. Whether that means he’s putting stipulations about playing D they won’t agree to and they are moving on or he’s just moving on to more defensive oriented players I don’t know.
I don’t agree with this. A school with a $5 million budget can swim in the deep end immediately. They just can’t grab as many studs as the big boys. We can get 1 or 2 rather than 4 or 5. But 1 or 2 is all you need.
But 80% of those players are severely flawed. I get what Jerry is saying. That’s free agency. But there’s enough red flags for genuine concern.
Based on the guys we've been trying for, it seems Sha is not going for proven HM players that will cost 7 figures. Looks to me like he's going for an evenly spread out $3-3.25m for his starters (500-700k) and $0.75k-M for his bench.
I would give the 99% of that $5m to 6 guys and pray you get lucky with some other pieces l.
We had one guy on our roster who commanded $1+ million— Coleman. Apparently we didn’t want to pay him. Or maybe he just wanted out regardless.
One interesting angle I’ve read about on roster buildout.
Yea I'm not sure how that applies to the young/teenage Euro kids who are getting paid already by the professional organization they are part of and are on "loan" to the US. But you still need to (a) have that pipeline and (b) have teams and coaches willing to "loan" their kids to you.
That’s fine but who are we getting that’s better?
not sure the best analogy is one where people buy something with only 10% of the money haha
Fundraising was part of the job pre-NIL. If this is true, then I have so many questions.
Not sure that’s either fair or accurate. He’s coming to Florida to do a pretty nice fundraising event later this month.
Maybe put $4 million to the starting 5, however that needs to be distributed. That should, presumably, get you a workable lineup.
Sha saw that the “Big 3” model (Kadary/Dre/Dawes) worked so he decided he’d rather be non-competitive and spread the wealth amongst questionable Big East talent. Obviously he’s not pulling in a Kadary or Dre or even Dawes ever again in this current college basketball model, but to repeat what he did last year (looks to be shaping up that way) is criminal.
What’s also more alarming is how many of those players were not even close to BE talent. As coaches who do this for living, it’s very troubling. Why they now have a disgusting 7-25, 2-18 to their name.
I doubt this is correct. I got an email from Pirate Blue about some upcoming alumni event Sha is doing in Florida.
I’m thinking Sha doesn’t want to be the head of fundraising and would prefer that the fundraising people, if we have any, actually do their job and raise funds so that he could do what he was hired to do and coach.
Except that in a world with no roster continuity year to year, the coach effectively is the product. If the on-court results were enough to sell themselves then maybe he could get away with being invisible outside of game day, but with where they are right now, we need him to do things to make himself a more marketable product.
We played the “let’s wait and see” game last year too after Kadary and Dre left. How’d that work out?
