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Caitlin Clark is in a bunch of State Farm commercials. That is pretty legit. In other news, State Farm lost $30 billion dollars the last two years, just had their A.M. Best rating downgraded to “B” and had their financial outlook changed to “Weak”. They are in a huge mess and are about to raise rates dramatically, reduce coverages and pull out of certain markets.

Then their scholarships should get taxed. Let’s see how much they like paying taxes on that SMU education vs. taxes on a UNT education.

What we have right now is a game without rules. Games without rules are not fun. All of this player movement is bad for the game. College sports need fans. It is hard for fans to get emotionally invested in these teams when your favorite player ditches your favorite team to go play for someone else over and over again. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out: whether the NCAA can get an anti-trust exemption and put things back similar to how they were before or if the student-athletes get made employees who bargain collectively. And how is all of this going to impact the non-revenue sports? What a mess.

It is pretty concerning to me that the other top programs in the AAC: Memphis, FAU, UAB have demonstrated an ability to retain their elite players. Meanwhile we have lost our leading scorer to the portal two years in a row.

This is the GoMeanGreen forum. Go Mean Green! If they aren’t Mean Green any more, screw ‘em.

Pretty incredible that UAB is keeping him. Guy could go anywhere and get paid $$$. The good teams in the AAC are keeping their best players. Except us last year. Maybe this year will be different for us?

One thing Ross can do is recruit. He essentially recruited our entire team last year. Rubin and Scott to stay and Edwards, CJ, Allen, Buggs and Walker to come. We might have a ton of roster turnover, but Ross knows how to stock the shelves.

Sad that the season has to end with such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Hope it doesn’t impact transfer portal too much. Also, Edwards’ size was really exposed in this game. SEC and Big 12 teams looking to poach him might want to consider how effective he will be against longer defenders.

Seton Hall is just better than us. They really got screwed by the NCAA.

Can someone move this post to the Kansas State message board? We still have a game to play tomorrow.

Don’t know how clutch K-State fans would say Tylor is. I know he had some moments, but do they feel like they got their moneys worth?

1. Abou must have had a bad attitude or been disruptive in some way to get kicked off the team with his size, athleticism and skill set. Keeping him around might have tilted the chemistry in a way that could have lost us the NIT last year or tanked this season for us. You have to throw out the bad apples. So losing him may have been a blessing. 2. Tylor Perry was good. Jason Edwards provided everything that Tylor did. Sub Tylor for Edwards and our record is basically the same this season.

Then why was he allowed to come to the postseason celebrations?

So no chance for any postseason tournament? Aren’t there a bunch of small, weird ones? Is there anything stopping us from signing a sponsor, inviting a few schools and starting our own?

We need to play. Ross needs more big game head coaching experience.

I wondered if there was some kind of event at the Super Pit for donors/season ticket holders. I also noticed that my tickets for the FAU game did not appear on my phone on Wednesday like they usually do. So maybe these tickets are for what was supposed to have been FAU?

This is going to be the weirdest offseason we have ever seen with Pay-for-Play (not just NIL) now legal and unlimited transfers. I would not be surprised if we had 100% complete roster turnover this offseason. The good news is that Ross has always been a good recruiter and talent evaluator. And he has been a winner at every job. His JUCO roster-building experience could really come in handy. Hopefully everyone reading this is donating to the Mean Green Collective because it is about to be roster Armageddon across the entire college basketball landscape and we need to give our coach plenty of ammunition.

FAU and USF deserve to make the NCAA tournament. If we can win a couple conference tournament games, I hope we accept a postseason tournament bid, don’t care which one.

What is at stake with this game? Is our conference tournament seeding already set?

Dude, 9% growth in ANYTHING in one year is substantial. Congratulations to all. Let’s keep it going…

Finishing here is a good requirement. We can’t compete with a lot of schools on NIL, but some things are worth more than money and being eligible for our HOF is leverage for us to keep kids.

ALL programs are going to lose key coaches and staff. Even Texas. It’s Morris’ job to replace him. No reason to believe he won’t. As for Bradford, he was a long shot with Gilbert and is still a long shot without him. Good thing RB is the easiest position on the field to find good players.

Maybe Perry can be in the Kansas State HOF?

They deserve it.

I would say that this team missed Rubin and CJ Noland more. And I doubt Tylor would have been amazing last season if Rubin and Kai Huntsberry had been injured during the majority of conference (which is the equivalent of what happened to us this season). This has been an exciting Year 1 for Hodge. Some things didn’t break our way, but we can still finish strong and make some noise in the conference tournament and the best championship tournament that we can qualify for.