BillySee58

Scholarships are renewed for entire academic school years. There is nothing official for the next season/school year, but what people are saying is if someone enters the portal and the coaching staff choose to fill their spot, they don’t have to renew that player’s scholarship if they choose to withdraw from the portal.

Every “official” podcast produced by an official team/school in sports are always over-sanitized homer podcasts that are so restricted by those factors they don’t end up being good products.

Absolutely. I’m not concerned that he has more TE than OL position coach experience for that reason. That and playing the position himself.

Really good player. Interesting he has more experience being a TE coach than OL coach, but glad he’s back where he belongs with the OL.

This rule is a complete sham at this point. JT Daniels is heading to play at Rice this year. That’s his 4th school, and no he’s not going to sit out. USC in 2019, Georgia in 2020 and 2021, WVU in 2022, and Rice in 2023. Tanner Mordecai headed to Wisconsin after using his “sit out free” transfer at SMU. We are seeing it in basketball too. Umoja Gibson playing for DePaul this season after not needing to sit out at OU in 2020-2021 after he left UNT. Maybe it’s because they are grad transfers but it doesn’t really matter. Tons of guys are entering the transfer portal this year after already having utilized the sit-out-free transfer and they seem to be under the assumption that not having to sit out after a second transfer is a foregone conclusion. The NCAA is just not enforcing it.

We do. Carroll can play center too but I’m not sure if he’s returning. He has a year left but he participated in the senior day ceremonies.

6’5” 290 lb OL from Houston. Looks like 3 to play 3. Appears to have been the backup center their this year, but picking up a lot of interest in the portal.

6’5” 310 offensive lineman from Virginia. Started two years at Dartmouth before starting at UVA this year. Originally from Arlington and played at All Saints Episcopal in Fort Worth in High School. One year of eligibility left.

They are. The good thing about getting more casual fans in the doors is that they boost your attendance and hopefully keep coming. Bad thing is if we lose they often don’t come back, (i.e. SMU game this year, WKU basketball game 2019, La Tech football game 2018, etc). This team deserves a big crowd, but it’s on them to capitalize when they’re here to keep them.

Absolutely

25-spot per class limit is gone.

Tight ends had 12 catches for 117 yards in his offense last year and 7 catches for 56 yards the year before that. Maybe selfishly we would love to keep him, but would he serve as more than Gumms insurance? 10 personnel is usually Morris’ base offense.

It’s all about who goes to the line. When it’s Perry and Huntsberry getting to the stripe, we’re going to have a good percentage. When it’s Martinez, Scott, and Abou, it won’t be as pretty. That being said, Abou has taken a good step forward there lately. His form is decent. Just seems like he’s more in rhythm. In the past he has gone up too fast. Now it looks more smooth and in sync between his top half and bottom half of his body.

Agreed

Seems to me like we are clicking the same way we were last year. Grinding teams down defensively, not being pretty offensively. I know you’re referring more to team chemistry but it feels like we are where we were last year at this point (maybe a little ahead), but the biggest difference to me is that we have more capable players who seem to be playing below their proven offensive capabilities. Last year’s team it felt like we had as good a season as we possibly could have had with that group (save for the CUSA tourney). This year it feels like we have some space between where we are at and our ceiling. So I don’t think it is so much panic as it is seeing how scary we can be if guys like Huntsberry, Eady, and Rubin just start hitting at the same clips they had been at historically.

The boys haven’t played a home game since December 3rd against Omaha, and that is the only home game they have played in the last month. They have really been impressive road/neutral court warriors. Hoping that shooting on their own rims with a strong crowd behind them can be enough to lift them over a tough opponent.

Kai and Rubin. I believe Kai still has another year of eligibility. He is listed as a senior, just like Perry who has another year. The guys listed as “5th” or “6th” are the guys in their last year of eligibility due to currently utilizing their extra year of eligibility due to COVID.

Eh, that saying is very flawed. What if something is breaking? Do we wait until it has fully broken to address fixing it? What if just a part of something is broken but it doesn’t prevent the whole system from working? Our offense is probably the thing holding us back from being a legit top 25 team. Doesn’t mean we need to fire Mccasland or change everything up, but maybe consider a little bit of tinkering instead of ignoring players coming here and becoming much less effective offensively just because we are winning.

This is absolutely true. We also don’t have a tremendous group of ball handlers so asking them to hold the ball/move the ball around that long is also going to lead to more turnovers than if you let a good shot fly with 18 seconds on the shot clock.

Rubin Jones was a 36.6% three-point shooter entering the season and is at just 21.7% from three this year. Tyree Eady was a 38.6% three-point shooter entering the season and is at just 25.8% from three this year. Kai Huntsberry shot 39.8% from three at his JUCO and 41% at his D2 school but is shooting just 22.4% from three this year. Jayden Martinez is shooting okay from three, but his shooting percentage for his 4-year career at UNH was 45% from the floor and he is shooting just 30% from the floor this season. Part of this you can really argue is an indictment on Mccasland’s offense. It’s not the easiest offense to be efficient in when you play hot potato for 20 seconds before really making a move with the shot-clock dwindling sometimes. But to a certain degree you have to expect these percentages to correct themselves and progress back towards the mean. If they can, that completely changes the game on what caliber team we can be.

See Vito’s tweet above. Sounds like we have a chance for the February NSD.

What makes you say that? His QBs, Copeland and Ward, have not been dual threats.

I am eagerly awaiting when Rubin Jones starts to make his shots. Same for Eady, Huntsberry, and Scott