Cusefan0307
Red recruits the ACC!
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Some of you really have zero clue who Buddy has produced against and are basing opinion based on scouting services.
Some of you really have zero clue who Buddy has produced against and are basing opinion based on scouting services.
I don't think anybody is questioning Buddy's ability here. For me, all I've said is he doesn't have to count against the scholarship total and that we don't have enough players, and people started talking about not underestimating his potential impact.Some of you really have zero clue who Buddy has produced against and are basing opinion based on scouting services.
I don't think anybody is questioning Buddy's ability here. For me, all I've said is he doesn't have to count against the scholarship total and that we don't have enough players, and people started talking about not underestimating his potential impact.
Isn't the point of this thread discussing how we will fill all the open scholarships?
Yes.
I mean one poster said he's a 3 star that's a walk on so he wouldn't get a scholarship if he wasn't the coaches son. Another person asked if he was worthy of a scholarship. I mean either some people live under a rock and haven't read any of the 20 articles they have had about his recruitment since last year on syracuse.com/cbs/espn, followed his EYBL stats that were better than guys like Joe Girard, or are just plain looking at scouting services rankings that can often times be wrong.
I just asked because I didn't know.
10 is optimal. You get to practice 5-5 with no walk-ons. You get competition for spots. You can deal with a couple of injuries and foul trouble. less that that you are getting a little too thin. More than that and you have guys grumbling at the end of the bench. If Battle comes back, we have 10 guys. If he doesn't we have several guys who can play his position and could really use another big, either a third center that might allow Sidibie to play some forward, (if his knees are finally OK), or a third forward. I think we lost Golden because he wanted to start. A project like Braswell might be the ticket.
All good. I figured you would know as you are usually in the know with local sports.
There was another poster who had to input his predictable comment.
you're focusing on the wrong aspect of the sanctions; the restrictions on recruiting were onerous & inflicted the damage they were intended to inflictIt's precisely what Jay Bilas commented on relative to the sanctions when they were announced against SU. The 3 annual reduction of schollies he believed would not have much of an impact because of same, and the fact that traditionally and historically JB's comfort zone when it comes to guys playing "meaningful minutes" is about 7, give or take. Now, that was on the premise that the issue of utmost importance was roster management and landing the recruits SU highly valued. Had that been the case the past few years, the sanctions would've been a relatively minor hiccup and the not the overwhelming burden that some here think the proximate cause of our ACC and overall mediocrity has been.
Buddy more then held his own in EYBLI would say he should absolutely be put in the category of a recruited scholarship player, time will prove whether he belonged there. But, I don't see anyway (barring a major injury) that he has a lower career trajectory than I expect from HW.
not sure anyone's saying buddy is not scholarship caliber. the point made was JB is faculty and a multimillionaire and buddy could walk on easily without financial hardship and not tie up a schollie we could use on another player. get it yet ?
we suddenly don't need players now after years of crying about sanctions ?
you're focusing on the wrong aspect of the sanctions; the restrictions on recruiting were onerous & inflicted the damage they were intended to inflict
not sure anyone's saying buddy is not scholarship caliber. the point made was JB is faculty and a multimillionaire and buddy could walk on easily without financial hardship and not tie up a schollie we could use on another player. get it yet ?
so let buddy walk on and burn that schollie on any 6'10 grad transfer with post experience. given that we lost BAZ and the others seem to battle constant issues. do think think there is a certain "stigma" being labeled a "walk-on" ? or do you believe buddy needs free meals , education and lodging for the next 4 years ?
easy peasy because they grow on treesburn that schollie on any 6'10 grad transfer with post experience.
We don’t need 13 or even 12 scholie players. Rarely give 13 and will never play that many. Buddy will get a scholie. We have 12 to give this year. We aren’t getting to 12.
Personally I'd rather see it go to one of the walk-ons who can use the full value and have been with the program multiple years. A Belbey or a Featherston. Buddy's tuition is free and JB can certainly swing R&B.
Guess that's just another thing that really burnt me about the sanctions. The perfect storm of events (Thompson, Thorpe, injuries) did leave our roster short but the scholarships that we were prohibited from using likely would have been used as rewards to walk-ons for their service to the program. So someone inserts a footnote in a paper for Fab Melo and Braedon Bayer is denied a $60,000 scholarship (yes, I know he got a partial when Thorpe bolted.) That'll teach 'em NCAA!I don’t have any problem with that. It’s a different take than the ones thinking we need a scholie so we can bring in 4 more players this year.