D1 games maybe
but on Wed night he will come in at the 4:30 mark when we are up 75-45.Opening Night Lineup - Just for fun
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but on Wed night he will come in at the 4:30 mark when we are up 75-45.yeah, i agree, there was for sure some conditional phrasing in Moon's comments there. I'm not expecting a ton of minutes as he comes back from injury here.
BTW, Mooney confirmed on Behind the Web last night that tomorrow's starters will be Hunt, Tyne, Tanner, Neskovic, and Walz. Congrats Spiderman for the correct call!
Do we think we will go 10 deep, with subs being Roche and the other 4 transfers? Is B. Artis healthy and available to play?
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Expected this once they were DNP in the scrimmages. Hoping they were on board with this from the jump and aren’t lured to the portal.
With transferring so easy and popular, I don't agree with redshirting guys. The chances are probably low they will be around for year 5 here anyway. Seems like it would open up more transfer possibilities. After their redshirt sophomore year, if they are good, they would be attractive to a lot more schools because they would have 2 years left and not 1.
Also, even if they are behind guys, there will likely be games where everyone would play. I would rather see them a few times this year because you can't copy a real game in practice, and also playing some this year might be enough to keep them happy and eliminate transfer possibilities next year. Or, what if a guy or two gets hurt? We might need them anyway and it would be better having players ready to play all year instead of having to take the redshirt off during the season. And, even another reason I don't like it is even though we would like to think our guys who redshirt will go all out everyday in practice, where is the incentive if you know you will never play this year?
Also, even if they are behind guys, there will likely be games where everyone would play. I would rather see them a few times this year because you can't copy a real game in practice, and also playing some this year might be enough to keep them happy and eliminate transfer possibilities next year. Or, what if a guy or two gets hurt? We might need them anyway and it would be better having players ready to play all year instead of having to take the redshirt off during the season. And, even another reason I don't like it is even though we would like to think our guys who redshirt will go all out everyday in practice, where is the incentive if you know you will never play this year?
Even if they seem fine with it now, who knows what could change during the season or after? Just seems like a bad idea. Just playing in 5-7 games, even if limited minutes in routs, could be a big difference in keeping guys happy and into the program. Tanner played 6 games and 25 total minutes last year. Now, he is likely starting this year. Who knows what thoughts might have entered his mind last year had he known he would never get minutes.
Yeah I agree with those reasons. I'm not against redshirting in theory, especially if u just were not going to play & have a very good team in front of u, but it's kind of a relic in college bball w the portal. Because as u stated, while no fun to predict someone leaving when they just came thru the door, the odds do go up that it will be another team benefitting in future from our redshirting, and not us.
and idk how much the purely developmental redshirts work out for us overall. I'd say more do not work but that's my initial vibe from memory. Bucknor under JB was 1 but he was really young as frosh & that's a long time ago.
And it just stinks it's another year we aren't getting a freshman stud. doesn't mean they have to be a top scorer, guys like Tyne and Burton were solid contributors, but that seems our ceiling recently, and plenty of teams get fresh that can make a bigger difference immediately.
The reports on Robinson sounded like he could help too. But must be too raw idk. if they were ready I don't think u make that decision, not in 2024.
