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Well yeah, no one ever said they would continue to be all conference at this level or wouldn’t have a significant drop in production. But Johnson, and Akeem Springs for that matter, were very solid starters and guys like Demir and Malik Smith were starters or decent bench players as well...

All these guys were more than solid mid major players, all of them were all conference guys who averaged over 16 a game who will likely be starters or very good bench players at the Big Ten level. It’s much easier to me to get excited about these guys then someone like Tre Williams, Mitchell...

All conference mid major usually translate to ok starter or good bench player at the power 6 level.

Disagree, you can still have a decent team with Robbins as your best player. He may be the best returning big in the conference depending on who leaves and he was going to make an all big ten team before he got hurt. If we keep Liam, Johnson, Gabe and Gach and land additional guys like...

Theres always going to be low rated kids that we should have offered in hindsight. We do this in FB all the time with the kids who go to the Dakota schools and then NFL. Not worth beating yourself up over it. There are going to be plenty of kids that Johnson missed on and the coach after...

Another thing on Fox. Illinois took a DII transfer from Wesleyan, Austin Hutcherson two years ago. He sat out last year and was expected to be a key price for them off the bench this year before getting hurt. He averaged 20 and 5 two years ago and was not an all American. If he’s good enough...

They'd be pretty good but I can't see Ihnen quite putting up 22, 9.6 and 3.2 blocks a game shooting 62% from the field at the DII level. Johnson maybe could. Look at what he put up in Germany as a senior, he averaged 13 points, 8 boards and 1 block a game and in the U20 Euro IBF games for...

They may not all offer or have a ton of legitimate interest but again, if Ihnen entered the portal, I highly doubt he would be hearing from all those schools, even if we are just talking preliminary inquiries.

I like Ihnen as an offensive rebounder and think he is an ok Big Ten bench player but besides that, he doesn’t do much. If Ihnen entered to portal, he absolutely would not be hearing from the list of schools Fox has heard from and wouldn’t be getting calls from over 100 programs.

A lot of them he would still get though because in almost all the games he is going to play, he is still going to be the best athlete on the floor, even at the Big Ten level. He has the size and athleticism that translates to this level. He reminds me quite a bit of Rodney Williams in terms of...

I’d still rather have both. We still only have 3 wings on the roster and we need one more.

I mean I don’t think he needs to be worried about getting burried on the depth chart unlike say Ihnen if we bring in all these 4’s. At absolute worst he’d be the 4th wing on the team. I personally expect him to take back his minutes from Tre next year and I think it’s more likely Gach starts...

He was primarily a 4 at GW and there are some concerns about his ability to guard 3’s which is why he ended up at that level to begin with.

Most of the potential transfers we are looking at seem to be either PG’s like El-Amin or 4’s like Race, Fox, Battle etc, not true wings. I don’t think Gach needs to be too worried and I still think there is a decent chance he starts next year if Johnson can get his confidence back.

PG Tyree Ihenacho from UND and Prior Lake is another guy. Was the Horizon league freshman of the year. Had 10 point, 3 assists, 3 boards, 3 steals against us this year. He'd be an ok option as a backup PG with a guy like El-Amin as the starter.

He’s a superior walk-on to Rudrud. Had several D1 offers coming out of HS. More similar to Stephon Sharp.

Because it’s the Big Ten, he’d be coming home, Johnson has the local connection and he played and coached at De la Salle. Someone like El-Amin may not be a lock but I would think Battle would be.

Jamison Battle has to be a gopher lock.

I watched the whole thing and I thought he was very good in the presser, said all the right things.