Negotiating ploy by the Jesse camp?
Yeah I feel better after listening to Dean’s pod, that at least in terms of NIL we ain’t broke. We have the funds to compete. I’m willing to see how things shake out and who else we can land to fill the center spot. (Or maybe Jesse and his Pops come to their senses and he returns?) I get that the staff probably didn’t want to get themselves involved in an escalating bidding war if they had already increased the pot to meet the demands. But I still have questions. Are we making a mistake not paying the extra $$$ so we can have a quality center (which is hard to come by) to transition in Red’s first year? And are Jessie and his dad making a huge miscalculation not relying on the known quantity, Syracuse, over and unknown quantity that you have no prior relationship with? Meaning, these programs can promise all they like in these phone calls, but can they actually deliver? He knows Cuse will deliver for him based on the years of loyalty. Media people have alluded to the fact that some of these numbers that schools are promising portal kids may not come to fruition. There’s been talk of kids getting burned during the last cycle.
Brey retired a month before. So I think it was understood that their undergrads would be reaching out to other schools. They were going to be hiring a whole new coaching staff. Even though he wasn’t officially in the portal, no one would cry foul there.
And has he been to Morgantown?
There are posters on here who have good info. You just have to know who they are, and I’m sure you know. Dean has good info, too, sometimes and does solid analysis of recruiting and prospects. He got cranky and frustrated towards the end of the JB era (but that was true for most of us), so it was sometimes hard to listen. Snd he does tend to riff a bit and you wonder, like a game of telephone, how much is he extrapolating from his sources? But he does have legit sources both close to the program and around the northeast basketball world and recruiting scene. He provides a good ear to the ground perspective that you can’t get elsewhere unless you’re hooked in.
I gotta say, I’m just really disappointed in Jesse Edwards. We’re not talking about a huge difference in NIL money, from what people are saying. Loyalty to the coaches and program that helped develop you should count for something.
He was our Hakeem
Your schtick is getting tiring. You have said the same thing over and over again in 20 or more posts. I'm sure I'm not the only one zoning you out. And I won't even begin to list the factual errors.
