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Message: [QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 5322130, member: 439"] I think one problem with NIL, and one of the big reasons old school coaches are leaving the game is the power the agents and players have. College basketball is nothing more than one year deals. How do you motivate a kid that is already raking in more than most people make in a lifetime? If he’s not going 100% each and every practice and game, what do you do? Bench him? Make him run sprints in practice? The kid can just shutdown and plan his exit strategy. It’s a slippery slope. It’s now the NBA without contracts, incentives, and guardrails. Having the right players with the right character to fit your playing style is so much more critical now, and keeping them engaged in the vision and direction is a must. Red’s problem appears to be that he hasn’t quite figured out HIS system, which leads to not knowing which players will thrive, and rolling the dice on who he brings in. It all starts at the top. Red is transitioning from good cop to bad cop and trying to navigate a very difficult environment to succeed in. I see no focus in any facet of our play. As to NIL, the schools must be given the power to engage in contracts beyond one year and throw in incentive-based performance payments. You stop the tampering by locking a player in for two years, with specifically designed clauses that would allow the player leave after one year if say the coach leaves or is fired, they declare for the draft, etc. Red is in a very difficult position, and he doesn’t have time to tinker anymore. We’re in the middle of a season and have no set A-team. That’s on the coaches. Yes, losing JJ and Donnie have presented problems and definitely cost us wins, but the issues are deeper. When you lose multiple games by 20 points over two seasons with two different teams, there is a culture problem. SU teams never gave up in the golden JB era. Never. That’s why we’re Cardiac Cuse, for crying out loud. Now we’re flatline Cuse. 20 point losses are inexcusable. Red needs to decide how he wants this team to play. He can’t play wide open and fast with minimal defense if we can’t score. Gotta go back to fundamentals. I’d rather see us play boring, lockdown defensive ball, like UVa did, and win than watch what we have now. Every single game it seems a new team takes the floor, and we play differently than the last game. No structure, no consistency, no continuity. At least with the 2-3 we had an identity. We have no identity, and that’s a problem. [/QUOTE]

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