Jasoncuse
2022 Iggy Winner: NCAA Tourament
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With Tyus probably heading to the NBA, we're still desperately in need of players. I wonder when we'll start seeing some movement on adding to the roster?
- Waiting for Golden to decide? Anybody know his timeframe for a decision? Seems like Illinois did everything possible to land him and he didn't commit, so hopefully that's good for us.
- The Robert Braswell situation seems very quiet. We were supposed to visit last Monday, then it changed to last Wednesday and then I'm not even sure it happened? There was no news after the few tweets saying SU was going to see RB on Wednesday, 4/18. Braswell would be a good under the radar player that could spend a year working on his body and providing spot minutes if needed. Always good to have shooting options at forward.
- Tyrese Samuel, class of 2019, mentioned he wanted to visit Syracuse and we were his 'dream school' growing up. There was talk of him possibly being able to reclassify to '18, but that doesn't seem likely unless it's the right spot. Maybe we could be that spot? Is there interest on our end for him being a 2018 option? I hope so.
- The grad market seems unlikely at this point. Maybe something will develop, a la Thorpe last June, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in this option.
- I still think we should be going after traditional transfers, especially forwards or a James Banks type interior player. It makes so much sense with our scholarship situation and future roster needs. There doesn't seem to be much traction here?
- We have 8 (or 9) scholarships accounted for (Buddy is 9), so we could take up to 4 players, or 3 if Tyus stuns us. Obviously, I don't think that happens, but we probably need to add at least 2. Scrimmaging in practice against fellow scholarship players will only help, plus we have some guys with major injury concerns that may not be available all summer/fall (HW, Sid).
- Is there anything else out there? I believe we had started scrambling in late March, early April last year to fill spots. When will it happen this time? I wonder if another version of Marek is out there somewhere...
- Waiting for Golden to decide? Anybody know his timeframe for a decision? Seems like Illinois did everything possible to land him and he didn't commit, so hopefully that's good for us.
- The Robert Braswell situation seems very quiet. We were supposed to visit last Monday, then it changed to last Wednesday and then I'm not even sure it happened? There was no news after the few tweets saying SU was going to see RB on Wednesday, 4/18. Braswell would be a good under the radar player that could spend a year working on his body and providing spot minutes if needed. Always good to have shooting options at forward.
- Tyrese Samuel, class of 2019, mentioned he wanted to visit Syracuse and we were his 'dream school' growing up. There was talk of him possibly being able to reclassify to '18, but that doesn't seem likely unless it's the right spot. Maybe we could be that spot? Is there interest on our end for him being a 2018 option? I hope so.
- The grad market seems unlikely at this point. Maybe something will develop, a la Thorpe last June, but there doesn't seem to be much interest in this option.
- I still think we should be going after traditional transfers, especially forwards or a James Banks type interior player. It makes so much sense with our scholarship situation and future roster needs. There doesn't seem to be much traction here?
- We have 8 (or 9) scholarships accounted for (Buddy is 9), so we could take up to 4 players, or 3 if Tyus stuns us. Obviously, I don't think that happens, but we probably need to add at least 2. Scrimmaging in practice against fellow scholarship players will only help, plus we have some guys with major injury concerns that may not be available all summer/fall (HW, Sid).
- Is there anything else out there? I believe we had started scrambling in late March, early April last year to fill spots. When will it happen this time? I wonder if another version of Marek is out there somewhere...