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I would have to assume that we will very rarely ever see an early HS signing again (more than a year early) with where NIL is at. Most kids will want to see what the roster they are going to join looks like

Nah. Secret games, the ones no fans can see- those we schedule against top 25 teams.

F. They so rarely offer the fans a good home non-conference game. It's all about the money they can collect and nothing about competing to be great. After close to 40 consecutive years of holding season tickets- I am done. I'll always be a fan and will go to games but I am done supporting this...

Really good rundown of our roster by Jason Kemp. He seems pretty excited about Frank Mitchell, brought him up first among the transfers. Good things on Betts and Asuma. You get the feeling that other than Garcia, no other star this year but a lot of solid players who can help. Says Femi is a...

What year does he have to figure this out? This year?

If you have competitive NIL funding and a coach who has a good relationship with his players you have a better chance of keeping your players than losing them. Last year we just did not have the funds to keep the guys we wanted to keep. Carrington and JOJ were let go. Payne was the only HS...

Nice article. It's the Big 10 (or Big 18) not Big 12 but a good summary of the situation. I do think that Cochran may be just as important as Patterson.

Better players! It has been my position from the start of NIL that the AD should tell donors to help buy players above all else. They were slow to do it. My post was a question- not a comment.

He appears to have given 350 million to National University in California, but he might be done here.

So..I guess that the reality is that the budget is pressed because they are directing donors to buy players instead of donating to the athletic department?

I didn't!

They are. If you ever get a chance to get a tour- take it. The facilities are top notch.

Give Sp. No! a little credit...this is one of his actual first basketball related posts on the basketball board!

This should also be a physically tough team as compared to last year. We brought in some bruisers replacing finesse players in Christie and Hawkins. Odukale, Patterson, Cochran and Mitchell are all big physical guys at their slots.

This was the best set of questions I have seen reporters ask him and he responded well. I would have like to heard him talk about the defense and the need to be a lot better than last year on that end. Interesting that he felt this team could handle a tougher schedule than last year's team so...

Sure they do, just not at this level. That's the mystery. Ben has done a good job of getting guys to perform a level up- but this is a mass makeover. I am pretty optimistic but we have to really, really be good on defense to make the tournament.

Ouch. We are a total wild card. If we don't play some of the best defense in the league, we will not be good- that is my uneducated guess.

This is great but I would really love to see our reporters ask more basketball specific questions. These aren't perfect but just off the cuff: - how do you see yourself fitting next to Dawson Garcia? - what type of player do we expect to see when you are out there? - what are you seeing in this...

True- I forgot about that and that's bad because all four of our weak FT shooters are in the 6-7 to 6-11 range. That leaves Garcia, Grove and Betts as the other guys with size for late game situations and only Garcia is a proven player.