AJP is still on the market
My concern is that if you ask any 18-23 year old kid who had always been a great athlete if they are going to be fine the answer will be yes like 99.9% of the time. You think fox or II don't think they will be the same guy they were 2 years ago? Of course they do. And I think CBJ is a combination of loyal and blind to the fact that might not be true. However, the odds both are 1. Healthy enough and 2. Good enough are very very low. So again to me CBJ is setting himself up for failure because he isn't seeing the big picture and is apparently terrified to step on a kids toes. It hasn't worked this far, I don't think it's a good idea to try again but he appears committed to it
You are leaving out a key part of all this....the highly trained medical staff that works closely with the team and the players.My concern is that if you ask any 18-23 year old kid who had always been a great athlete if they are going to be fine the answer will be yes like 99.9% of the time. You think fox or II don't think they will be the same guy they were 2 years ago? Of course they do. And I think CBJ is a combination of loyal and blind to the fact that might not be true. However, the odds both are 1. Healthy enough and 2. Good enough are very very low. So again to me CBJ is setting himself up for failure because he isn't seeing the big picture and is apparently terrified to step on a kids toes. It hasn't worked this far, I don't think it's a good idea to try again but he appears committed to it
100% agree. Just after Ihnen's last game, he was projected to do what the following season? HM All BIG Maybe-at best? Now it's 2 years later and multiple surgeries and we expect him to be ???????? At best I'm projecting a 20 minute guy putting up decent #'s for a bottom of the BIG team. Now Fox. Awesome D2 player prior to coming to the U. Some examples have been given of D2 players who have become outstanding D1/NBA players. Those were statistical outliers. Now, 2 years and mutiple surgeries later, he is expected to do what exactly? I'm not saying they won't contribute. What I'm saying is Ben should have loaded up every available scholly on guys who could/would/will be projected to be one of our top 8-9 in the lineup. He didn't do that. He signed 2 guys who will most likely be in our top 9 and is leaving another scholly on the table. In a perfect world a team would have 13 solid potential players who could fill one of those 8-9 spots. We don't have that. We have our 8-9 but our 10-13 are ?'s. Wilson, Reeder, Ramberg, open scholly---Ihnen, Fox are all question marks, unknowns or aren't/shouldn't be solid D1 contributers. That along with Carrington (often injured) and freshman Christie/Betts give me reason to pause. If no solid contributer (Payne/Garcia/Mitchell/Hawkins/Betts/Christie/Carrington/JOJ) get injured, we may be alright. Looking a little thin if any of the top 8-9 get injured.
Someone hijacked my account to post the above. Admins be aware. This is the quality of people wanting to fire the coach.
That would not be good. You people that rag on the team about the talent….oh, wait a moment….it’s Rockraven.
You didn’t cheer for a good gopher team unless you did so years ago because they weren’t good last year.
Bold statement. Not taken lightly by mgmnt.
My GH experience is so much better lately. Just remembered I blocked spaulding and Rock last week. My best GH decision ever.
I agree.
Maybe Ben is indeed prepping for "something like that". If someone is in the transfer portal and not selected by a team prior to school starting in the fall, are they still available to transfer to a new team? For example, if someone on our roster goes down with a season-ending injury in Nov or Dec, come January (prior to the start of spring semester) could we use an available scholarship to pick a player out of the portal to fill the gap?
I'm pretty sure you can't bring someone in once the season starts. Sure someone can find the specifics though on roster locks and what not.
That is why losing Ihnen the last year was such a big of a loss. You have a guy that can probably defend the SG, SF, and PF positions better than others on the list.
I love the analysis. So are the Gophers done with signings or not?!
Because……?
...they have an open scholarship and you can bet they are still looking for a player that can help and who will fit what they are looking for in terms of skill and character. Will they get one? The longer we go into the summer the less likely that is..but you can bet they are trying. If you had a 2 million dollar a year job that depended on winning this year- what would you do?
I would not stop recruiting, but occasionally do scratch my head at Johnson’s actions. I thought perhaps the previous poster had some insight as to a player they are in on, hence my asking.
oh- fair enough. Yes- I wish that too.
At this point, Johnson shouldn’t care much about character concerns if the kid is talented
I'd have to disagree- even though I agree that it is tempting. This is where Pitino got in trouble and never recovered. He shot for the stars and missed then he lowered character expectations and started getting guys....and then got burned. If he has decent improvement this year but still not enough wins- the final card be can point to is the build with character card- which continues on with Asuma and Grove.