I'm kind of wondering if Sears knows of an incoming guard transfer that hasn't been announced that could potentially eat into his playing time. I also wonder if Sears is getting advice from JP the way BVP said he was. Lots of questions, very few actual answers.

I'm sorry but that quote makes me laugh. Once Preston left Sears was given the keys to "lead" the team, sure we may never get to a final four but still. Assuming he ends up at a higher level school (based on current team interests), here are a few questions I have...

1. How much does he actually play? (does he start?)
2. How does he compete against higher level competition (we saw how that went this year vs Good MAC teams and Kentucky/LSU)
3. Will he continue to expand/grow his game? His court vision was suspect and dribbled himself into many turnovers.

Time will tell.

It seems I'm in the minority here, but I think Mark Sears is a very good basketball player and has a really good chance to be very good wherever he ends up.

The season didn't end the way we wanted to and I get emotions are high so it's easy to pick apart his game on the way out, but this season was his first as a lead guard in college basketball.

And he finished first team all conference, became a 40% three point shooter with a high volume of takes, and nearly averaged 20 points a game. Is he as true a point guard as previous guys we've had in the spot? No. But in today's game there's often 3 guards on the floor anyhow, so that's easy enough to cover for.

I'll take Mark Sears' 21-22 season in first year starting guard anytime. He's strong, fearless, and controls the pace of games super well. He's got an excellent change of pace game, and almost certainly would have had better assist numbers had he -- you know -- had a shooter or two on the floor with him. Everybody has this platonic ideal of a point guard in their mind, but had Sears been that this year, where would our offense have been? Would more shots for Roderick, Carter or Brown have been a good thing? In my view, we were best with the ball in Sears hands and when he looked to score. A lot of blame's being laid at Sears' feet, but our biggest challenges this season were a direct result of our personnel. We didn't have enough scoring, and we had a very shallow bench. A ton was asked of Sears, and he was consistently very good.

I think he struggles against length. But he's still a very good basketball player and will get better against length with reps. In a big conference, he'll get them. I certainly wouldn't write him off.

I basically agree with you, but for awhile Mark was not dishing it enough when he was driving into the paint. Later in the season, he was better on this. But his court vision and passing are areas for improvement. Overall, though, he was outstanding for Ohio and others in the MAC saw it that way, too.

Sears is a very good basketball player, he is just not elite at anything except maybe foul shooting. He has a whole lot of stuff in his repertoire, but he lacks the elite quickness to create the space that he needs as a smaller guard. He could potentially commit to the wrong school and end up being a backup. He can fully develop and add to his game in Athens. I hope that he does well wherever he goes.

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Disagreed about Sears not being elite at anything. I think he's an elite scorer. 19.6 ppg this season (28th nationally). Even in his "off-games" his lowest point total was 8 against Rice (where he hit the game-winner) and in every other game he scored double digits. As a sophomore. When you're scoring double digit points despite other teams keying on you, you are an elite scorer.

At this point, I think he's better off playing as an off-guard, but he's still young and has some time to develop.

I too feel that Sears is an elite scorer. He shot 40% from behind the arc and has amazing body control in getting to the hoop. I think his ball handling caused him issues, especially later in the season, when driving in the lane. If that improves, he could be near the top of the nation in scoring. It's also impressive that he scored so much as a six foot guard when the team really only had two other scoring options (BVP and Carter). I know there are a lot of issues about his assists, but I think part of that can fall on the fact that there weren't any other scoring guards to pass it to in transition often.

Jaaron Simmons, Jason carter? Does Sears have the same kind of future? Or is he jason Preston in the making who will have great success at a higher level?

The two of them going to Butler with Boals was never happening, not in anyway. Is Sears still going? 99.999%. But hey, what do I know?

Has he gotten any official offers?

I was asking about BVP. I saw we haven’t heard much about him since he entered the portal last week, wonder if he’s still weighing options.