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We could only be so lucky. Unfortunately (but rightly for them), Maryland should bring in far better.
Maryland can bring in far better than Willard too. since turgeon that fanbase sets the bar at deep tournament run. funny enough, Sha has that under his belt and willard does not.
 
We can't judge him in the NIL era???? So do we just keep going along and say well it's year 8, we still can't judge him we don't have the funds. Give him another extensions until the NIL era is over (which may be never). Or do we at some point say we need to make it to the dance or find someone who will make it to the dance with what we got. Only Blaney took over a program with the consistent regular season success. He didn't get very long here.
It’s all about NIL money now. Jay Wright, Brad Stevens, Danny Hurley or whoever coach u want to name. Without NIL money, it’s impossible to win. It’s all chalk in the Final Four, I am assuming Auburn will win. All Final Four teams had big money to spend. Big money doesn’t guanrsntee a Final Four but without it, it will not happen. He’ll, Sweet 16s won’t happen again without big NIl money. It’s not about the coaching anymore.
 
It’s all about NIL money now. Jay Wright, Brad Stevens, Danny Hurley or whoever coach u want to name. Without NIL money, it’s impossible to win. It’s all chalk in the Final Four, I am assuming Auburn will win. All Final Four teams had big money to spend. Big money doesn’t guanrsntee a Final Four but without it, it will not happen. He’ll, Sweet 16s won’t happen again without big NIl money. It’s not about the coaching anymore.
Lmao yeah like it was about coaching when Duke had someone give Chris Duhons mom a cushiony do nothing high paying job. It was always about the players. We werent preseason #1 in anyone’s mind because we had Amaker, it was because we had Eddie griffin. We weren’t clean to get him. We didn’t have to pay $7 mil, but we had to give a better offer than everyone else.
 
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Villanova has a plan (they’ve had one before the season started).
They have a list of potential candidates.
Odum was their preference but knew UV would probably outbid them.
Collins has interviewed with them already and I believe they are still taking.
Willard is not on their radar at all.
This one is rough

We all get wrong takes all the time but this was rough one lol
 
This one is rough

We all get wrong takes all the time but this was rough one lol
Hey, this is what he told me a week before the BET when they told Neptune he was done (which I did post several days before it was announced. As I said before he shared the list which Willard was not on. When the Willard talk started, I checked back in and he confirmed it. Dan knows who the source is so I will leave it at that.

Maybe he didn’t want to share Willard’s name to begin with but i posted what he shared. Feel free to ignore me…lol.
 
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You can’t compare eras. NIL with no sit out year is something completely different. This is semi pro basketball without a contract.

Holloway got ripped off of an NCAA tournament appearance in 2024. This year He had a bad year but he had really bad players. Is it his fault, yes to a certain degree. But he did go to a Final 8. He must have forgot how to coach? No. But his manner of building and molding players over 3-4 years was valued back than. Now, he will never be able to do that again. Players jump year to year. So you can’t judge him in the NIl era. He may be a bad coach for the NIL era. But he can still coach. His strength of a coach has been taken away from him by NIL
Not to sound cold about it, but it’s “adapt or die,” Cernj. I readily acknowledge that the Hall’s NIL situation this past season was a complete sh*tshow, but it was also Sha who decided how to allocate the limited funds he had. And as we all saw, his “method” of constructing a team failed miserably. And, it is concerning to me that - at this relatively early stage in the off-season- it seems like he’s following the same failed blueprint for constructing the roster this off-season. It’s too convenient and gives him way too much of a pass to say his coaching methods aren’t suited for the NIL era. Well, he’s getting paid $2.5 million a year to figure out coaching methods that will work in this era. I am rooting like hell for him to find them.
 
Lmao yeah like it was about coaching when Duke had someone give Chris Duhons mom a cushiony do nothing high paying job. It was always about the players. We werent preseason #1 in anyone’s mind because we had Amaker, it was because we had Eddie griffin. We weren’t clean to get him. We didn’t have to pay $7 mil, but we had to give a better offer than everyone else.
Then where were the upsets this year? Where were the Cinderella teams this year? Are you ever going to see a team like St Peter’s in the Final Eight? We had plenty of teams who were built from the ground up and came together as seniors who made runs in the NCAA Tournament. A coach like PJ would not make it anymore in today’s NIL because he was a molder of players over the years. His players got better every year. That’s over. So even if a team had all the gaudy top recruits a Duke like Danny Ferry, Christian Laetner and a Phil Henderson in 1989, it can be beat by a senior laden team of John Morton, Raymon Ramos and Andrew Gaze with a great coach. That’s done. That's never going to happen again.
Not to sound cold about it, but it’s “adapt or die,” Cernj. I readily acknowledge that the Hall’s NIL situation this past season was a complete sh*tshow, but it was also Sha who decided how to allocate the limited funds he had. And as we all saw, his “method” of constructing a team failed miserably. And, it is concerning to me that - at this relatively early stage in the off-season- it seems like he’s following the same failed blueprint for constructing the roster this off-season. It’s too convenient and gives him way too much of a pass to say his coaching methods aren’t suited for the NIL era. Well, he’s getting paid $2.5 million a year to figure out coaching methods that will work in this era. I am rooting like hell for him to find them.
If Kadary got $1.5 million which was pretty much the entire NIL budget for the Hall, what kind of team could possibly be constructed by Holloway? There is only so much that can be done and I don't care what brilliant coach you have. It is not giving Holloway a pass to say, he had no NIL and could not compete. If he has a big NIL number in his pocket and then he has a terrible season, it's on him.
 
Then where were the upsets this year? Where were the Cinderella teams this year? Are you ever going to see a team like St Peter’s in the Final Eight? We had plenty of teams who were built from the ground up and came together as seniors who made runs in the NCAA Tournament. A coach like PJ would not make it anymore in today’s NIL because he was a molder of players over the years. His players got better every year. That’s over. So even if a team had all the gaudy top recruits a Duke like Danny Ferry, Christian Laetner and a Phil Henderson in 1989, it can be beat by a senior laden team of John Morton, Raymon Ramos and Andrew Gaze with a great coach. That’s done. That's never going to happen again.
The transfer portal is the big difference. Coaches always would have poached players if there was no sit out. Money has always been around.

That’s nonsense PJ wouldn’t have made it because he molded players. Coach K molded Ferry, Laettner, Hill, Hurley, Wojo, Battier, Williams. But he also adapted with guys like Elton Brand and got a bunch of one and dones. Here’s a secret, keep to yourself, his money guys bought those players before NIL.
 
Where was the Bilas outrage when Maryland tampered with Willard during our season and tourney?

I get it is about driving clicks and eyeballs, but does the fact that Willard left a Big 10 school for a Big East school play any role here?
 
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Where was the Bilas outrage when Maryland tampered with Willard during our season and tourney?

I get it is about driving clicks and eyeballs, but does the fact that Willard left a Big 10 school for a Big East school play any role here?
Maryland fans are upset because they believe themselves to be a Top 10 program. In reality they haven't been a top basketball school in 20 years.

TV personalities and sportswriters are upset because they don't know what to do. Its all about football even when its not. A coach left a Big 10 school on his terms for a school in a "Mickey Mouse" conference.
 
Then where were the upsets this year? Where were the Cinderella teams this year? Are you ever going to see a team like St Peter’s in the Final Eight? We had plenty of teams who were built from the ground up and came together as seniors who made runs in the NCAA Tournament. A coach like PJ would not make it anymore in today’s NIL because he was a molder of players over the years. His players got better every year. That’s over. So even if a team had all the gaudy top recruits a Duke like Danny Ferry, Christian Laetner and a Phil Henderson in 1989, it can be beat by a senior laden team of John Morton, Raymon Ramos and Andrew Gaze with a great coach. That’s done. That's never going to happen again.

If Kadary got $1.5 million which was pretty much the entire NIL budget for the Hall, what kind of team could possibly be constructed by Holloway? There is only so much that can be done and I don't care what brilliant coach you have. It is not giving Holloway a pass to say, he had no NIL and could not compete. If he has a big NIL number in his pocket and then he has a terrible season, it's on him.
You aren't going to be able to outspend Pitino, Repole and St. John's. To be honest, I don't think we can either. You need to pick up less pricey talent.

The problem this year for Seton Hall was certainly NIL, but a big part of it was also roster construction. You can't just spend your money on the best available talent. You need to be thoughtful about the guys you are picking up. There's no doubt in my mind that Holloway learned that lesson.
 
You aren't going to be able to outspend Pitino, Repole and St. John's. To be honest, I don't think we can either. You need to pick up less pricey talent.

The problem this year for Seton Hall was certainly NIL, but a big part of it was also roster construction. You can't just spend your money on the best available talent. You need to be thoughtful about the guys you are picking up. There's no doubt in my mind that Holloway learned that lesson.
You know better if you can. I always assumed you could, but that's perception from afar and based on the fact that you are Uconn, the only football school in the Big East, with the best program in the Big East, and a maniacal fan base (basically Kentucky West).

But I absolutely think the big football schools can and will outspend anyone in the Big East. Happened last year. Guess we will see with Demary, who apparently is a big target for you guys, Kentucky, SJU and other big boys.

I know there is a notion they can outspend the big boy schools but I just don't buy it. Here is a good article I saw today on CBS by Trotter that gets into how that impacted the Luis situation: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...ove-rj-luis-from-st-johns-to-transfer-portal/
 
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You know better if you can. I always assumed you could, but that's perception from afar and based on the fact that you are Uconn, the only football school in the Big East, with the best program in the Big East, and a maniacal fan base (basically Kentucky West).

But I absolutely think the big football schools can and will outspend anyone in the Big East. Happened last year. Guess we will see with Demary, who apparently is a big target for you guys, Kentucky, SJU and other big boys.

I know there is a notion they can outspend the big boy schools but I just don't buy it. Here is a good article I saw today on CBS by Trotter that gets into how that impacted the Luis situation: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...ove-rj-luis-from-st-johns-to-transfer-portal/
There are kids out there right now that both Connecticut and St. John's are looking at. The rumor is that St. John's is prepared to drop $2 million on a single player. I don't think we will. Now, that doesn't mean we may not get them anyway. If the only thing a kid is interested in is how much NIL he's getting, we probably don't want him anyway.
 
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