BillySee58

Roger was a top 100 recruit with offers from schools like Arizona, Indiana, UCLA, and Michigan State. Simmons had 1 D1 offer from Arkansas State because of Dowling and Mccasland. Nowhere near the same caliber of prospects.

Well put. It’s hard to fault Simmons. I’m sure he works very hard and seems to be fulfilling his end of the scholarship as a student athlete. It’s on the coach when you sign guys who don’t have any other offers and are young, and they don’t play well. Guys like Simmons and Alcindor don’t usually transfer just because they aren’t playing much. That’s their only D1 option, so lack of playing time doesn’t usually initiate a transfer like it would with a player who did have other D1 coaches who wanted them and still might. And it doesn’t look good to not renew a scholarship/force a kid out so you get stuck.

Honorable mention isn’t an all-conference selection. It’s just what it says, an honorable mention for those who aren’t named all-Conference. Getting named to an all-conference team isn’t a requirement. Especially when the other options didn’t either, like in the case with Novil and Abbe.

Even without spring ball, I think Crawford would come in and be a starting tackle pretty easily. Getting a guy who would either be your best or second best tackle on your roster and has 3 years of eligibility left seems like a no brainer for a new o-line coach trying to get a good group that he can grow.

Since Mccrae committed haven’t been pursuing these other JUCO DEs.

Nope. Lee was honorable mention in 2013 and that was it as far as all-conference recognition for him.

I do. Pretty confident that losing to a top 3 team in our conference on the road doesn’t preclude us from winning 10 of 18 conference games. Problem is this was a golden opportunity to step up and assert ourselves as a conference contender and we whiffed in embarrassing fashion.

Mccasland needs to get real with himself and move on from Simmons. He’s the only one outside of the Simmons family who thinks Jahmiah is a CUSA level player. 6’4” post who can’t shoot, can’t finish at the rim, is a turnover waiting to happen when he drives in, and gives very little resistance defensively in the restricted area. Having him on scholarship has done nothing but hinder the roster each of the last three years. I hope he feels enough pressure to win here to not make it four years. Although Wren handing out extensions before any substantial winning doesn’t help there. Same for Abdul Mohamed and Shakeem Alcindor. You’re using scholarships on redshirting these dudes, so you’ve wasted scholarships on guys who don’t play all year, only to waste a scholarship on those same players to also not play once they have finished redshirting. Happened with Tikhonenko as well but at least we moved on there.

Very well may have been. They were playing pretty flawless offensively. Great ball movement, they were canning every three, they were finishing at the rim, and they were getting bailed out by foul calls when they weren’t.

61 second half points. Once they got rolling there just wasn’t much we could do. They moved the ball really well and weren’t missing anything, contested or not. Honestly a really solid effort by our offense outside the turnovers.

It’s tough when they’re making turnaround, fadeaway threes, contested threes, and it’s an automatic whistle everytime they drive.

This is beyond wheels falling off. 48 points in basically 13 minutes. That’s pathetic and very troubling.

Worst 10 minute stretch of the Mccasland era

I really like the Murray offer. 6’5” guard and it sounds like he’s a good shooter. There is very little out there on him so hard to know for sure, but that also plays in our favor of us hopefully getting an under-the-radar type recruit like him. It looks like both of their teams were in the Beach Ball classic in Myrtle Beach. We seem to do a lot of recruiting up there in e Carolinas and the DMV area. In this 2020 class we also offered Yuri Covington recently, a guard from Maryland, as well as Amir Nesbitt, a guard from Virginia, and Abou Ousmane, a 6’9” post from Brooklyn. Also offered Tariq Balogun from VA a class or two ago.

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These are all valid arguments and below is how I came to my decisions. Novil has 20 TFLs through his junior season and Abbe had 8 for his whole career. Abbe was great at eating blocks but Novil is really good there too. McClain had about 120 more career tackles, 7 more TFLs, 2 more interceptions, 2 more forced fumbles, and made an all-CUSA team in 2016 while Lee never did. I had the most trouble with this one. Akunne had far more tackles but Garner was so good at making splash plays. He had 10 more TFLs than Akunne and 8 more sacks. I think Akunne probably would get it but my lasting memory of Akunne was him making all these tackles 7-11 yards downfield in 2014 while my memory of Garner is him blowing up plays in the backfield. Maybe not fair to Akunne but both were really good. I think Harris over Darden is very fair as well. I think Darden is a better player but Harris really made a lot of plays, especially for those teams with bad QBs in 14 and 15. But for my team I’m taking Darden.

Akpunku was a defensive end, while Garner was a linebacker

Holmes. The timing of the offer was suspect given that we seemed to be full on DBs already after Upton Stout committed/signed and we only have a few spots left. Of those spots there is very little chance any of them go to positions other than o-line, d-line, and QB. Plus we haven’t seen any offers go out since signing day. It seems the recruiting we have been doing has been of the stealth variety and not “yeah, go ahead and announce on twitter only to have FCS schools in your top 5 instead of us.”

This is as good a shot as we’ve had at them in a while. Even though we had them at home last year, we just weren’t good enough offensively to really have a shot. We’re playing well and are road tested, and probably have more depth than them at the moment. Without Bassey if we can just keep their shooters like Savage and Justice under control from deep, I really like our chances. Reese likely gets Hollingsworth, as he usually gets the other teams’ top perimeter scorer. He has done great this year in that role.

Yup, that’s what I’m thinking as well.

Update: looks like only Lathon is transferring

Sophomore guards Nigel Hawkins and Jordan Lathon transfer out of UTEP. Both averaged double digit points per game as highly regarded freshmen last year. Lathon started all 13 games while Hawkins was in a bench role this year.

Stop analyzing that in a silo. We have the third highest NET ranking in CUSA heading into conference play. We had a good non-conference showing.

Jalen Jackson is arguably the best on-ball defender on our team and I think he’s the best passer on our team. Just has to develop that jumper and he could be special here.