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Author Message Taiwan BC General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Kaohsiung Post Count: 486 Status: Offline     A good place to start...    Posted: 8/4/2024 11:13:50 AM  Yearly ranking from College Sports Madness: https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/23049 Thanks to the CSN MAC board for the heads up. This has us as 1st and, who am I to argue with them... Call off the season and give us the trophy and NCAA bid! Go Bobcats! Back to Top Victory General User Member Since: 3/10/2012 Post Count: 2,046 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/4/2024 11:33:15 AM  Taiwan BC wrote: Yearly ranking from College Sports Madness: https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/23049 Thanks to the CSN MAC board for the heads up. This has us as 1st and, who am I to argue with them... Call off the season and give us the trophy and NCAA bid! Go Bobcats! Look at all of those newcomer freshmen. If Boals can walk a tightrope and win the MAC now but play those freshman enough to keep them around but not have to rely on them so much that they're poached after the season......... Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,421 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/5/2024 9:36:17 AM  The transfer portal has people far too in their heads about this. Play the best players we have as much as we need to play them to win as many games as possible. The goal's to win games, not win games while hiding how talented our roster is from schools our guys might want to play for more. For all the talk about this, we've lost two meaningful contributors to the transfer portal -- Sears and BVP. And BVP we only lost because he had extra eligibility after graduation. Back to Top FJC31 General User Member Since: 3/31/2022 Post Count: 1,367 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/5/2024 11:31:38 AM  Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: The transfer portal has people far too in their heads about this. Play the best players we have as much as we need to play them to win as many games as possible. The goal's to win games, not win games while hiding how talented our roster is from schools our guys might want to play for more. For all the talk about this, we've lost two meaningful contributors to the transfer portal -- Sears and BVP. And BVP we only lost because he had extra eligibility after graduation. +1. All great points. I'm confident our freshmen will contribute and help win games. However, if they weren't on P5 radars out of HS, that's unlikely to change after maybe 10-15 mins a game at the mid-major level. Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,421 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/5/2024 12:28:21 PM  FJC31 wrote: +1. All great points. I'm confident our freshmen will contribute and help win games. However, if they weren't on P5 radars out of HS, that's unlikely to change after maybe 10-15 mins a game at the mid-major level. And even if they end up on the radar at a P5 school, who cares? We recruit good basketball players to play basketball for us, not to try and hide them from the world. Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 6,986 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/9/2024 11:09:07 AM  Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: FJC31 wrote: +1. All great points. I'm confident our freshmen will contribute and help win games. However, if they weren't on P5 radars out of HS, that's unlikely to change after maybe 10-15 mins a game at the mid-major level. And even if they end up on the radar at a P5 school, who cares? We recruit good basketball players to play basketball for us, not to try and hide them from the world. I think this is something that people are going to have a hard time coming to terms with, but it's the new reality. Ohio and the like are farm systems now for the bigger programs more than they ever were. Recruit good players; who cares if they "get called up" to the big leagues. At least your name gets mentioned when they succeed at the higher level. Make a name for yourself in developing talent. Like anyone else, I'd love to hold on to all talent, but we most likely don't have the dollars to do so. Back to Top shabamon General User Member Since: 11/17/2006 Location: Cincinnati Post Count: 6,343 Status: Online     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/9/2024 11:16:30 AM  GoCats105 wrote: Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: FJC31 wrote: +1. All great points. I'm confident our freshmen will contribute and help win games. However, if they weren't on P5 radars out of HS, that's unlikely to change after maybe 10-15 mins a game at the mid-major level. And even if they end up on the radar at a P5 school, who cares? We recruit good basketball players to play basketball for us, not to try and hide them from the world. I think this is something that people are going to have a hard time coming to terms with, but it's the new reality. Ohio and the like are farm systems now for the bigger programs more than they ever were. Recruit good players; who cares if they "get called up" to the big leagues. At least your name gets mentioned when they succeed at the higher level. Make a name for yourself in developing talent. Like anyone else, I'd love to hold on to all talent, but we most likely don't have the dollars to do so. Just how much credit are we getting for Mark Sears? For a greater extreme, if BVP was an NBA talent, would he be announced as "from Virginia" or "from Virginia and Ohio?" Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,421 Status: Offline     RE: A good place to start...    Posted: 8/9/2024 11:32:40 AM  I mean, again -- we've lost two meaningful players: Mark Sears & BVP. And BVP only left for a year of eligibility he never would have had without all the weird Covid stuff. We have benefitted far more from the transfer portal than it's hurt us. Last year, our top 3 players in terms of win shares included two guys from the portal and a junior who has played with us all three years, and is back for his senior season. The season prior, our best two players were from the portal (Wilson and Hunter). Next season, we're projecting big minutes and contributions from a portal big and a portal guard who will very likely start alongside another portal guard (Reef). Our best player will likely be a senior who made 3rd team All MAC and didn't get recruited away. Our rotation will include juniors in AJB, Hadaway, James, and Sheldon. Back to Top Showing Replies:   1 - 8  of 8 Posts Jump to Page:   1 View Other 'Ohio Basketball' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 284 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 282 Guests 2 Registered Users:   El Gato Roberto, shabamon There are no other users looking at this page.

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