Potential 2025-26 Roster

[IthacaMatt]

Portal talent is going to be significantly down. It wouold be a mistake to let him walk

I guess we'll see. It depends on the price and his role.
We need at least 3 guys better than him to be starters for next year, plus a couple bench players better than we had this year.

 

[Scooch]

Better odds than what everyone here probably thinks. I can say that for sure

Interesting. I’m happy to hear that. JJ chucking 10 threes the game before last might have been the low point of the season for me. Worse than any of our blown leads. Because it signaled a player who was selfishly out of control, and a coach who didn’t staple his butt to the bench to stop it. Just a complete breakdown.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Interesting. I’m happy to hear that. JJ chucking 10 threes the game before last might have been the low point of the season for me. Worse than any of our blown leads. Because it signaled a player who was selfishly out of control, and a coach who didn’t staple his butt to the bench to stop it. Just a complete breakdown.

He did have some terrific games this year, but wins and losses don't lie. We blew so many late game leads because of his play. We lost 5 out of our last 7, and 9 out of our last 13.

 

[sweetpea]

Here is what we do.
Offer NIL to the entire starting 5 of this year's Division 2 national championship team. Offer their head coach or assistant head coach a huge raise to become an assistant. Blend them with the incoming Frosh. Pay Donnie to stay and I bet we make the dance.
Each year do the same thing. Bring on a whole starting 5.

Still trying to get the Daemen guy in here?

 

[IthacaMatt]

Portal talent is going to be significantly down.

Curious why you say that. It's not open for another 2 weeks, although I've seen some guys already declare.

 

[IthacaMatt]

You haven't thought Petar was good enough since the start of the season. He's a useful player, and had a pretty good freshman year. His advance stats are very favorable. In 13 minutes he gave us 3 pts, 3 rebounds, almost an assist a game and hit some threes. That's pretty good for a 3rd big man in his first year.

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You can see that in only 4 of the last 10 games did we play decent defense, and then we played very well in a couple of those games, and got blown out in the rest.

You look at the offense, and we've been pretty good ever since the Duke game, but they make everybody look bad. It's late game execution, and mostly bad defense that is the problem.

 

[cardiac]

Curious why you say that. It's not open for another 2 weeks, although I've seen some guys already declare.

Because revenue share is inflating the players salaries. So they are more likely to stay, it’s harder to entice them to leave. The talent level is gonna be slim pickings and no 5th year guys

 

[IthacaMatt]

Because revenue share is inflating the players salaries. So they are more likely to stay, it’s harder to entice them to leave. The talent level is gonna be slim pickings and no 5th year guys

Not everybody's NIL is going up by orders of magnitude. Not ever school has the resources, alumni network, media presence, size of arena, that we have, and they will have to find a way to compete. Surely we can do it. They got their mulligan with this season.

 

[IthacaMatt]

He was an average defender on this team. Four players better, five players worse.

Edit: He fell down 1 spot in the final ranking for the year. Not great, since we were a bad defensive team until the very end of the year, but not the worst guy, either. It's right there to look at.