Portcityblues

I agree. Especially with another year of leverage and development. Some jump to draft because of leverage when they are solid players but then drown in the minors. Who knows how many may have made it all the way with an extra year of development

could you imagine combining these 3 with the haul we got this year with our freshman Dl. Imagine those guys together for a couple years, assuming they all develop and are as advertised.

We knew this was a strong possibility so at least it isn’t something that we haven’t been preparing for. He would have been a luxury

Think it’s a great hire for D line help and obviously recruiting. As we get closer to season and in season I would prefer to see him take a back seat and just do his job and not do interviews just like anyone else in his role at other programs.

Yeah I originally heard the same thing mentioned before that Kansas backed off last year cause didn’t think he could get cleared so not sure if that part is correct. Hope it is though

my how times have changed. when have you ever been excited about a Vandy commit visiting. Also, rarely seen words of "elite Vandy commit" thrown around

This could be a replacement if we can’t get graves. Does anyone know how the two compare in their skill sets and which one is the better player of the two?

Sounds like fear of another potential competitor in conference quicker than he thought. He knew if we had to do it the traditional way of high school and college transfers it could take us several years to gain the credibility and winning culture to be really competitive. However with this route we can potentially do that over night which no coach wants within their conference. We pull this off and have a great year and deep run in tourney then with the support of the fans and donors we could become a legit problem.

Yeah I think it’s a lot of what has been said. You have these media members that primarily cover basketball and they are “purists” and are buddy buddy with the blue blood coaches and programs and will do whatever they can to make sure they stay on top. Heck like it’s been said, Kansas tried to get Dessert this past year but didn’t think he would be eligible so stopped. They will have a field day if LSU gets him eligible. Also other blue bloods were after some of the same players but we got them all so they view it as unfair to their precious programs. Perhaps they fear a “football” school like LSU with the backing to do something like this taking away from their precious historic programs and then other football schools follow suit. It will ruin their “perfect” world of basketball where they get to focus on 5-6 programs all the time.

Are we gonna go back to having to beat the refs along with other team like when Wade was here before? National tone is not good for us right now. I don’t care and say load it up and just win baby. I just hope we don’t see an unusual number of calls go against us due to this