Recent content by TwistingMyMelon

Yes, one always needs to keep in mind Charles Barkley's famous words: "That boy can run and jump like a deer but I would never put a deer in a basketball game."

I agree with that explanation but this article is short on specifics of what Ben Johnson did or did not do on the fund raising front. I suspected that Johnson was weak on this dimension because I didn't read of his meetings with donors like I did with Fleck but I would like a little more...

Why the hell would we want him? He played a grand total of 29 minutes as a freshman and was 1 for 11 from the field in those garbage time minutes. Apparently, no other comparable program wanted him either because he transferred down to Buffalo (#339 on Pomeroy). Meanwhile, fellow freshman...

I'd like to disagree with that but, in this environment, I can't.

I don't think there are any elite 5s left (unless some enter in the remaining time) but there are some who show promise and could be good.

Still don't agree. Enough is enough. There has to be an extensive market for entering freshmen, even at high majors, or the whole system is just a pro league by another name. Might as well not even require them to register for any classes.

Good, because I'm not inclined to give you any.

Well, I haven't followed local high school basketball much over the years so I don't know but I see from his 247 recruiting profile that he did have 5 offers (Bucknell, Cal Poly, Santa Clara, North Dakota, and South Dakota). Possibly academic prestige (Bucknell) featured into the one he picked...

Perhaps but one could make a case for "failure to recruit sufficiently" against almost any coach. For example, why didn't Tubby offer Roseville's Mike Muscala who ended up playing at Bucknell followed by 11 years in the NBA?

There is a recently posted article charging that Ben failed to adapt to the NIL environment in the same way that Fleck did. The article also stated that more NIL money has been raised since Niko's hire than was raised all of last year. Unfortunately, the article is short on the specifics of...

If you're claiming to have some special, privileged knowledge, then you must explain why or there is no reason for any of us to believe you. Blowhards are a dime a dozen on the internet.

As much as I liked Garcia, I really hope no player who has played 5 years already is allowed another year of eligibility.

Just against what a team lost in the portal or what a team lost overall? We lost 5 starters/rotational players to eligibility (although two of those actually are in the portal), two rotational players with eligibility (Frank Mitchell and Rigsby; didn't count Betts as he played little) to the...

We don't get a lot of advance information from this administration. I guess there's a certain logic to that. Whenever Ben announced recruits coming to campus but failed to get the commitments, the result was a certain amount of jeering at his failures. Niko won't get much of that right now...

Did you ever contemplate that maybe it's just you who engenders the hatred?