The fact there's a kid from DSJ going to Furman when he was in the hunt for Mr. Basketball is maddening to me. I get it, Furman has been on the tourney trail the last few years, but you're going to tell me a kid like that doesn't even get offered?

I'm sorry, but the way we do things is maddening. The previous coaching staff couldn't sell water in the Sahara if they're lives depended on it. I know this because they couldn't sell a kid on our FRIGGIN sports management program and lost him to Duquesne (you can start doing the math of what kid that is). I watch this coaching staff gripe about $$$ over and over again and it's getting really old fast. I get it, and will be the first to admit that at some point you gotta have $$$ to compete and someone is going to outbid you. But until I get a vision for the program, and not just recruiting plugging holes in the Hoover Dam Griswold-style tactics, I can't see where this program is going to go realistically. There is no strategy where we are targeting players, scheduling a certain way, building up towards a new facility, etc. Again, it just feels like scramble for $$$ because everyone else and we aren't moving in a unified direction. I don't see an identity of the kinds of kids were going for, a niche we're playing for, or where we can find value in this era. Combine with the fact we swing and a miss on a lot of kids......won't be shocked when we're staring down the barrel of a new coach and having a lifeless direction. If I put anything to our new AD, I would propose building out a masterplan of what we are going to do and HOW we are going to achieve it. If we're going to sit here and spin wheels and hope we throw a dart and hit, well, that ain't gonna cut it, especially when Fiami is putting together the Death Star to the MAC as we speak. Realistically, that has been our one lucky break the last 20 years in that Fiami has been incompetent and going into this era was that bad prior to bringing in Steele. Now that they got him, and now they got a fired up alumni base again.....yeah, we're competing for the 4 seed best case scenario each year.

Yeah, as a Sports AD alum, if you ever wanted to hear a story that'll make you sick because your alma mater couldn't successfully land a kid wanting to do sports administration at THE BEST SPORTS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM in the world, then there it is for you. That's how bad we couldn't sell kids on Athens with the right weaponry in the pre-NIL era. Explains why we were in the hunt on a lot of kids in the SaulBall era, but could never lock em up.

As predicted about Kelly back on March 12th. Now the question...Pitt..Penn State or lateral move.

Yeah, man -- I don't get the analysis here. Kelly has shown a lot of interesting things, but he wasn't even on the All Freshman team in the MAC. He played good minutes for a bad team, did some things well, but has plenty of gaps in his game. If our 4th best player is good enough to play in the ACC or Big 10, then we should fire Boals asap for the on-court results.

If I were the AD, I'd be contacting as many deep pocket alumni as I could get contact information for to try and raise funds for an immediate buyout. If JJ Kelly is leaving, when he'd apparently earned a starting spot, it means the ship really is sinking, and we are due for another Wilderness Campaign. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have a four-alarm fire!!!!!

Damn…I was so close.

E2 to North Florida.

I am glad that Simmons is returning. Other than his blow ups at times he really will do well with the guys around him.

Or if his brother doesn't get the playing time he is hoping for, he has a possible destination.

Why would any college consider a staff member here? What have they done? Recruited sub par players and let Boals ruin this program. Lot of help Lee Mart has been. Bahamas Ezuma and 2 years of Sears before he said "F you Lee."

We don't think 2 years of a 1st team all American is worth anything?

I'm one of the biggest bottom line guys around here. I understand it's all about March and competing for national championships (controlling your own destiny by playing your way there via the tournament). But even I think that take is a little harsh.

Are we really saying if a player doesn't get us to the NCAA, or make 1st team All-American, that his entire time here was worthless? Trent only played in exactly 1 NCAA game in 3 seasons - and lost to Bobby Knight. Was he sub-par too? How about Dave Jamerson?

Do you just wake up angry?

"He WaS MiSuSeD aS a FrEsHmAn ThAnKs To BoAlS"

He was a freshman. Playing the same position as an NBA draft pick. They won an NCAA tournament game vs previous years National Champion. I say again, they won. An NCAA tournament game. Something no MAC team has done since. And hadn't been done years prior.

I thought it was interesting Logan Adams seems to think starters will be Che, KDA, Siebe, Kuany, and Javan. I think he might have missed the Kolton Mitchell commit.

First glance imo, Mitchell swaps with Che and Dusan swaps with Kuany. But I also thought Breath was going to potentially start this time like year.

https://x.com/loganpadams/status/2057466707954778226?s=46...