You don't have to yank a kids schollie, there are grant and aid programs for players with injuries. In college basketball, you only have 13 scholarships and you have to use them. If you have three kids riding the pine with injuries than you work with the AD and make sure that you have contingency aid in place. Heck, if you want to be a real servant leader than you pay for their school. I don't believe that Harley was too injured to play, I believe that he just didn't fit into what Saul was trying to do. Wadley has been through a lot, why bring him back just to ride the pine? I don't even want to speculate, I am not the executive, if this were a case study I would have said to let him go. See you can keep him and make the transfer wire headlines or give drew crabtree a schollie (kudos) because you see another coach do it. That is all fine and dandy, but your number one job is to win basketball games. Coaches wear many hats, but they are hired to win. SP's number one job is not to be a diplomat or kiss the babies. You have to create a good atmosphere and be transformational like the Patriots. They take players who have had an issue or two and place them in a winning culture where players are depended on. They make them watch video, they ask for all their players input, they even cheat if they have too. In the army, they used to say if you are not cheating, you are not trying. I DID NOT AGREE with that, but I respected the fact that they were willing to do what they had to, to save or prevent a comrade from falling.

Sorry my iPhone spits words out. We don't pay players, we give them scholllies and stipends. You don't let kids sit on a schollies for three years if they can't play. You find alternative solutions

Re the idea that one who disagees with another's post should 'go lay an egg'--that's weird. I like it.

I'd love for us to pick up a scooter speed guard..probably a small guy..who has jet speed and ability to penetrate like the Celtic's Thomas or CMU's Keene. I know that guys like that are very rare. But it would be great to have a guy like that.

+1

Coleman was on his way. We do need an offutt and a Flomo

I watched the press conference. Over and over the mantra was no excuses, then the comment that anybody that believes that the team did not exceed expectations without Tony does not like him or the team. We are all supporters of the team. I can't speak for others, but I like Saul, do I love his recruiting? no! Drop all the excuses, stop worshiping the players and criticizing the refs and than say in the same breath no excuses. It you go 5-20, we will still love the players go back to the lab and aim high for next year. You brought these kids to Ohio, go win a championship. Dartis is 20 years old, he did not play too many minutes, he had two off games, it is ok, he will be better next year if you don't worship him, but you coach him. You never question what a player does? stop. If his outside shot is not falling, you penetrate and get fouled, knock down some foul shots and get your rhythm back. Coach, you have the knowledge and charisma, let's win in the living room and lets get jaaron and the guys a BERTH to next years tourney. I agree that some calls should have went our way, but that will happen in every game. I WANT TO REITERATE, great job guys, come back next year and get it done. Go Cats

Or at the very least not typing for a couple hours.

I'd actually even settle for a couple of paragraph breaks at this point.

Count me as one of the excited ones for next year and beyond.

- Returning the top PG in the MAC

- Returning the top young big in the MAC

- Returning 4 players that were starting at the end of the year

- Returning 7 of the top 8 players who were seeing significant minutes at the end of the year

- A seemingly talented trio of freshmen coming in for 2017

- Only 2 rotation players will be lost to graduation after next year, so we will still have 5 of our top 8 guys from this year two years from now.

Saul's former colleague Tim Miles losing one of his guys to grad transfer too. Another state of Wisconsin recruit. Had some pretty good offers out of high school.

http://www.cornnation.com/2017/3/13/14918402/nick-fuller-...

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/nick-fuller

I'm not even sure we need these openings to go to kids that will play next year. We have 11 scholarship athletes and the only position that we really have a pressing need for IMO is backup PG. And Butler might be the answer there but I'm not sure.

Bigs - Carter, Taylor, Vander Plas, Gareri, Dozier
Wings - Block, Laster
Guards - Simmons, Dartis, Butler, Gollon

Three of those guys are not going to see the court. The big questions are how much Doug Taylor and Jordan Dartis improve IMO. I throw Dartis in there because he's got to improve on putting the ball on the floor and creating his shot. If he can work that into his game like Nick did his last year then he is going to be tough to defend. I think Taylor is very close and just needs to get a little bit better on his low post moves.

So unless we can get an absolute stud I say hold onto those scholarships until next year or possibly use them on a graduate transfer.

I have to believe that with the storm of Wad, Khari and Culver leaving that Saul and staff know something about someone or some people. They perhaps have replacements already.

I've always been under the assumption that Butler was going to come in and play PG primarily after Jaaron leaves, but more of a combo his Freshman year. He comes from a system that shares the ball a lot and obviously knows how to lead a team to wins (state championship this year). If Jaaron takes him under his wing for a year, while also gaining some valuable PT alongside, he'll be ready to go Sophomore year.

I would actually love this. The last few NCAA champs have all started two PG's. There is nothing bad about having an extra ball-handler on the floor at all times.