New basketball recruit?

[SteinPizza]

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Uni will get back to the ncaa tournament when their inside play improves greatly.

If he is an upgrade at guard that is great but it isn't going to help uni biggest need.

If he's an upgrade at guard as a walk on, then our coaches have asleep during recruiting. In football, some walk ons can make a difference. Basketball, not the case, since the really good players are almost always ID'd at a relatively young age. I hope this kid has a good experience at UNI, but also hope we don't read much about him on these boards. If he plays, it means we're either really bad, or our backcourt has been destroyed by injury.

[run&blade]

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Uni can get whoever they want to play guard...it isn't going to help them with W's because the post play after tuttle is tragic.

[Moose39]

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If he's an upgrade at guard as a walk on, then our coaches have asleep during recruiting. In football, some walk ons can make a difference. Basketball, not the case, since the really good players are almost always ID'd at a relatively young age. I hope this kid has a good experience at UNI, but also hope we don't read much about him on these boards. If he plays, it means we're either really bad, or our backcourt has been destroyed by injury.

Tell that to Scottie Pippen, Avery Johnson, John Starks, Ben Wallace, etc. we don't know until he's given a shot. And I've got to agree with R&B, were 1 O'Rear injury away from possibly playing Thursday night. We have no idea how Friedman (or any incoming post player) is going to be, worst case scenario.

[BCPanther]

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Yep. It's been a decade since we finished below .500 in The Valley, but we're one injury away from Thursday when there are three absolute dumpster fires and a new school not ready to compete.

We are going to be picked 2nd or 3rd preseason. There's just so much wrong with the program right now...

[Moose39]

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Yep. It's been a decade since we finished below .500 in The Valley, but we're one injury away from Thursday when there are three absolute dumpster fires and a new school not ready to compete.

We are going to be picked 2nd or 3rd preseason. There's just so much wrong with the program right now...

Calm down. you're right about the Thursday game, were fine.

[UNIdad]

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an article on Jesperson leaving UVa. Not too kind to him at all:

http://www.streakingthelawn.com/2013...on-to-transfer

Interesting that he played so much without getting many offensive stats in any category. Yet, they still praise his basketball IQ and how he is always in the right place (something we value a lot). Seems like he could work and improve his shooting, but I wonder why he hasn't already done so. I wonder how much is related to fitting on the team, getting along with players and coaches, such as a coach trying to get him to "fix" his shot, but making it worse. Intriguing prospect.

[hoopfan]

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Yep. It's been a decade since we finished below .500 in The Valley, but we're one injury away from Thursday when there are three absolute dumpster fires and a new school not ready to compete.

We are going to be picked 2nd or 3rd preseason. There's just so much wrong with the program right now...

Hey Barkeep, how about another round of Kool-Aid for C-bass and the boys?

An injury to Seth next year would be tragic. It's great you are so high on this program, but we have no one bigger than 6'5" outside of Seth who has proven they can play effectively in the MVC. That is a major concern to me.

[Kyle]

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If this guy is a lock for us, why is he continuing to set up visits to other schools?

In the past, when a recruit drags out the commitment process, it almost never works out for us.

[BCPanther]

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If this guy is a lock for us, why is he continuing to set up visits to other schools?

In the past, when a recruit drags out the commitment process, it almost never works out for us.

He's just being thorough. He jumped that UVa offer really quickly after he got it and realizes he made a mistake before he considered all of his options (should have taken the 4 for 5 at Wisconsin).

I would still be highly surprised if he went somewhere else.

[BCPanther]

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we have no one bigger than 6'5" outside of Seth who has proven they can play effectively in the MVC. That is a major concern to me.

Either does anybody else not named Wichita State, and maybe Evansville.

My comments weren't directly related to us being great next year, more related to how down the league is going to be.

[Kyle]

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We'll probably do well in the league next year, but this doesn't equate to a successful season IMO.

The UNI basketball program is to a point where success means making the big dance.

[achrist70]

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To me the success of our season really depends on Nate Buss and Teddy Friedman, they are more than likely the two posts along with Tut, and Chip, if they perform well we should be successful, if Buss doesn't grow as a player especially defensively, and Friedman struggles to adapt to the college game we could struggle. We should have good depth at the guard/wing position, and we have great talent in the post with Tut, but we can't expect him to play 35 minutes a night.

[run&blade]

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To me the success of our season really depends on Nate Buss and Teddy Friedman, they are more than likely the two posts along with Tut, and Chip, if they perform well we should be successful, if Buss doesn't grow as a player especially defensively, and Friedman struggles to adapt to the college game we could struggle. We should have good depth at the guard/wing position, and we have great talent in the post with Tut, but we can't expect him to play 35 minutes a night.

I think outside of tuttle the bulk of the post minutes better be played by guys not currently on the roster.

Buss and Rank are not bangers or guys that can score with their back to the hoop.

[hoopfan]

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We'll probably do well in the league next year, but this doesn't equate to a successful season IMO.

The UNI basketball program is to a point where success means making the big dance.

Unfortunately, I think for a lot of posters on here, success means remembering how bad we were in the 90s and taking any season with a better record. Kyle is 100% correct that making the Big Dance would mean a successful season. We can win 20 games a year for the next decade and never make the Big Dance during that decade. Will those 20 win seasons still be considered a success?

[run&blade]

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Garbage tournaments at end of year make winning 20 about as eventful as wiping your bottom. If uni wants to play big boy basketball than lets quit pretending playing in the lmnop invite at end of year means a damn thing.

Sick of reading about the weaver years as an excuse to accept zero post play and lack of recruiting of athletes that can create their own shot.

Thank god farley tells it like it is...playoffs or the season sucked.

Maybe we should say at least it is better then dunbar year.