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Some coach once said the best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores. Only 12 freshmen in the whole league were part of their team's regular rotation, so that is an accomplishment in and of itself. My judgement of Asuma is not based on production *for a freshman*, but production for a...

OK. I'll listen to well-reasoned arguments. What would be a better comparison? Even if you look at just the Gophers, he was 6th. He was bad. Does he have potential? Of course, but he did not fare well as a true frosh.

Maybe. It’s also possible he’s just a guy. There are portal players with much more *realized* potential. If he was from another state, this board would be looking to replace him.

Here's where Asuma ranked of all freshmen who played in the B10 (dead last, by a wide margin): Here's where he ranked among the 23 "Combo Guards": Yes, 3 Washington Huskies were objectively better. Now, if you make an argument that he was a true freshman that was deferring to teammates that...

Amen. He was actually pretty bad - people are projecting a best-case scenario for him based mostly on maroon-colored glasses rather than actual performance. It’d be better for the team to get players at his position that have *proven* they can produce.

Where does this less-talented narrative come from? MSU has had at least double the 4 and 5 star recruits than the second place team in the league over his tenure. This year they did well without all-conference players, but this is the exception, not the rule (and he still has more 4 and 5 stars...

I understand the point you're making, but I think Indiana has enough built-in advantages (money and a fertile local recruiting base) that it would be more the exception than the norm to not find some level of future glory. For several coaches' regimes now, they have seemed to be the epitome of...

What would you have said last year at this time when they lost Storr, Hepburn, Wahl, and Essegian? I don’t know if anything other than $$$ makes a difference in adding portal players, but Wisconsin can make a hell of a pitch to a high-usage wing based on the last two years with Storr and Tonje...

Don’t be. Medved has no relationship with them. If they decommit (or are let go, the result is the same), there are plenty of fish in the transfer portal which is a better source of known production anyway. Let him go after his own guys, not get stuck with the previous regime’s talent decisions.

I directly know of at least one case where the opposite is true. New coach comes in and recruit told his offer was rescinded. It got reported as the player decommitted. He found another school out of state to give him a scholarship and he was a low minutes rotational player his entire college...

I agree you don't know. Ann Arbor is the one example you should avoid when talking about the metro pro sports media bias (hint: AA is closer to the DTW airport than most of metro Detroit, which has the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings).

First time seeing them and to say I’m unimpressed would be an understatement. It’s not that they’re getting drubbed (although that undoubtedly colors things), it’s that they play at a shockingly low basketball IQ. Not well coached in this game.

And whatever high-priced mercenaries who will be all about the name on the back of the jersey, per usual. Wonder where Storr will be next season.

They're literally the definition of what I mean - they lost Hepburn and Storr due to $$$, went shopping in the scratch and dent aisle and came up with Tonje - he was not a high-priced free agent. It occurs to me that "Moneyball" might be a confusing term if you don't know what it refers to - it...

MN will never have better talent than the rest of the B10. To think that's changing with a new coach, even with more NIL/revenue sharing, is ... optimistic. Must be able to play Moneyball and identify gettable talent that will fit. I don't know that McCollum will be more successful than Medved...

Agree on Howard and Woodson. We'll see if anyone picks up Johnson as a head man - not sure anyone will

I stopped reading after this. This was not the assumption. Ben Johnson aside, the normal career progression for a P5 assistant is to get a low- or mid-major head coaching job first before going to a major (regardless of one's race). DeVries went from Creighton assistant to Drake head coach to...

In theory, but I would speculate that it has not happened in practice. Not every coaching vacancy that goes to a current head coach is a "recycle", I guess depending how you define it. I was thinking there are promotions (May going from FAU to Michigan), laterals (Musselman from Ark to USC)...

Please explain why first time head coaches matters. Not arguing it doesn't, but truly don't understand the point this makes. My guess - purely from a math and logic standpoint - is that the percentage of first time head coaches that are black > the overall percentage of head coaches. And that...

Link "An analysis by The Associated Press found Black coaches holding 59.4% of assistant roles in the top six basketball leagues – the Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, and Southeastern conferences – for the 2022-23 season. Yet the rate for Black coaches holding the top jobs was...