spider23 said:

Thinking some guys may have had a clause in their NIL contract to only play defense on certain days of the week. Apparently this scrimmage took part on the wrong day, may need to stagger next season.

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There’s a yard fence contracting company in Richmond called DanDale Fence. Maybe we can get a NIL sponsorship from them and call it “D-Fence”

urmite said:

Not always the smallest. What if Duke already had 13 scholarship players but unlimited NIL, So…

14th player is a walkon named Zion who gets $900k in NIL.

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quite the hypothetical. I don't think that happens.

spiderman said:

at first look it feels like a 6'4" guy talking to a 5'10" guy. then you remember Dji is 6'5"! lol

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Same thought. Dji looks like a smallish PG next to that guy.

gcarter52 said:

I live in Rock Hill, SC about 30 miles north, I will be there.

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Hope to see you there Greg. My freshman year Spider roommate in '92-93 was also from Rock Hill as his mother was an administrator at Winthrop at the time.

brooklyn brownstone said:

I thought Bucknell was on 11/16?

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Thx you're right - corrected - typos tend to happen more for me when I writing when I'm the elliptical during lunch time workout

I live in Rock Hill, SC about 30 miles north, I will be there.

I thought Bucknell was on 11/16?

I would think the coaches poll is more significant than stats

32counter said:

Haley and Reasons picked UD and he kept us at #18.BS to Haley.Haley sways the voting.


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Eff'em. Just keep winning, don't care by how much or where, and it will take care of itself.

spiderman said:

I'm going to continue to assume walk-ons get the smallest NIL on the team, if any. if they're good enough, they get a scholarship.
agree with others that this change is strange. not sure what prompted it.

great year to be a high school senior though. a ton of scholarship openings available.

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Not always the smallest. What if Duke already had 13 scholarship players but unlimited NIL, So…

14th player is a walkon named Zion who gets $900k in NIL.

Thinking some guys may have had a clause in their NIL contract to only play defense on certain days of the week. Apparently this scrimmage took part on the wrong day, may need to stagger next season.

So busy in existing threads didn’t see this one until now.

6’1” Felton going 6 of 9 from 2
6’4” Riley 5 of 7
Not Sure about CJ Walker, there are multiple
But if from OSU then NBA then ECU I would feel better about 10 of 12…

Thinking we may need a pre-season trade with LSU to bolster our defensive side of the ball as well.

spiderman said:

75% from 2??? great googly moogly!

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The return of the Matador and Flying Dutchman defense coming to you this Fall

spiderman said:

75% from 2??? great googly moogly!

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I assume I’m reading that right…
35 of 54 total, 8 of 18 from 3, leaves 27 of 36 from 2.

Are Felton, Riley, and Walker all drive to the hoop guards? I think only Felton was with ECU last season…

spiderman said:

at first look it feels like a 6'4" guy talking to a 5'10" guy. then you remember Dji is 6'5"! lol

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SpiderDad needs to photoshop himself into the pic to provide some height perspective …

spiderman said:

I'm going to continue to assume walk-ons get the smallest NIL on the team, if any. if they're good enough, they get a scholarship.
agree with others that this change is strange. not sure what prompted it.

great year to be a high school senior though. a ton of scholarship openings available.

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I’m still expecting them to grandfather in existing walkons. Imagine u r a 3 year walk on about to graduate the following year. Now u can’t be on team? Seems unduly harsh. But idk I think have seen a couple tweets from athletes from smaller sports saying they r in market for new school due to roster limits. If there is no grandfathering in I will not be surprised if Kirby Mooney gets a ship.

Brooklyn, yes I noticed that too on the 2P % for ECU. That is very concerning. Between the score and that stat, that is not helping with my concerns on defense. Absolutely cannot expect to shoot that well most games. Defense carries, but shooting not necessarily.

urmite said:

Walz may have started but played 16.75 minutes to Beagle 23.25

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I only predicted starters ... not minutes.

if they shot 75% from 2, that to me indicates they made a lot of layups/dunks/shots at the rim. No one shoots 75% on high mid range volume. So either we allowed a lot of dribble penetration, didn't protect the rim at all, or both. Both of those begin with 1v1 defending on the perimeter.

urmite said:

Overall shooting:
UR 51.52% from 3, 46.67% from 2 but
ECU 44.44% from 3, 75% from 2

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75% from 2??? great googly moogly!

Haley and Reasons picked UD and he kept us at #18.BS to Haley.Haley sways the voting.


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not that preseason ranking mean much but Torvik has ECU #128 and Blue Ribbon has them 5th in the AAC.
not a power but they're not a pushover either. on the bright side, we lit up a solid team. I bet they're concerned about their defense now too.

spiderman said:

all true, but you can be true to yourself and your family without screwing the university who paid you tens of millions of dollars, the athletes you recruited, and the alumni who supported you.

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He admitted he hasn't been into it for awhile now. He hasn't done much recruiting at all. He hasn't even talked with the 2026 recruits because he knew he wouldn't be around for them. Just a terrible look for him IMO. He should have taken a week or two after the season and either decided to be all in this year or retire then. What happens now when lineups get juked around? Players' minutes change? He might have thought all the players would be "okay" with his decision, but no chance. There will likely be multiple times this year where some guys think about their coach quitting on them. Will they all respond with fire and 100% committment? I doubt it. How ridiculous for Bennett to think this was the right way to do this and all would be okay.