The problem is your preferred style of posting would reduce this entire forum to a series of people posting "Go Bobcats" and "I'd post something, but let's defer to the coaches" 100 times in a row.

I agree that a few have been asked to leave. Boals likely looked at film, a workout or two...and grades. I was told this team's grades are, uh, not good. Sorta belies the Saint Saul myth, no?

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And you know what about D-1 basketball .. never mind. Cowart was our best defensive player. Nice of you to try and cherry pick data. The year was almost 30 games .. not 1 or 2. But whatever ... Boals is Wooden 2.0.

Congrats Jerry....Antonio was the best defensive player on a last place team. Many on here don't really see how this is a major loss. It's not like we are losing CJ Massinburg. Best of luck AC at your next stop.

Obsess much about John Wooden? You seem to mention him in every, single post. Enjoy and embrace the rebuild of Ohio basketball my friend. Coach Boals is doing it his way. You can't be "Mr. Nice Guy" in this business all the time if you want to improve your roster for the future and get back to winning. I get the feeling that Coach Boals isn't about handing out participation ribbons and trophies to his players.

My answer, to my own question in regards to how many minutes AC would've played on this years UB team is 0 as well. On a more normal MAC Championship team, maybe 5-10 minutes per game. Just a wild hunch.

At the same time, I wish he would've stayed in that JB trying to add 7 guys in this short of stretch appears unrealistic. Add to that, he's two assistants short, he's short-manned and short-staffed simultaneously. AC could've served as a one year filler to bridge the gap so that JB doesn't have to do, what I hope he doesn't do and this is pick up guys he doesn't feel great about, simply because he has to because he's in a huge pinch. Almost kind of like an NBA move where you add expiring contracts biding time for next years potentially big free agent market. Choose wisely right now JB and if what you want isn't here right now, have the patience to wait until you get a full recruiting cycle. Adding the wrong guys, or guys you're not sure about now, will keep us in this underperforming cycle even longer.

Seems like a tough position. SP first year is made out to seem very difficult, but this seems way worse from an arms length. That team had some talent, with what sounds like a poor culture/couple bad apples. This sounds like very little talent + unhappy campers to boot.

He can go wherever he sees fit. Just like you and me with our jobs.

Cue up the 15+ page thread about Carter and his playing time, points per game, etc. at Xavier now. It's as if we as a fan base went from "check out how awesome this freshman Carter kid is!" to..."meh, he's really not that great" the minute he announced the transfer portal. Some seem to have the jealous ex-boyfriend look going on with Simmons, and now Carter.

That aside, I'm in agreement with the idea of making it his team, his way, right from the start. The approach of telling a player if they aren't on board with the new way of doing things, they're free to look elsewhere is okay with me.

Did I read this right? allen is throwing a BobcatAttack pizza party this weekend? Which Good Fellas are you buying pizza for all of us at? I'll be in the area tomorrow, and don't have lunch or dinner plans yet. :)

So "Saulcohol" is code for your buying a bunch of great beers from Jackie O's for all of us to go with that pizza? Or is it some white lightning from Straitsville Special Moonshine? Either way, you're such a generous Bobcat Attacker!

I doubt he can transfer to Harvard or Yale, or even to Kentucky or Gonzaga.

I mean, he created a thread where he pushed hard for Saul to be retained when everyone else knew that he was gone. Pretty difficult to take his observations seriously.

On Cowart's defense, take a look at the high scoring guards we played against throughout the season and notice that most of them didnt have great games against us. For example, Cowart limited Elmore of Marshall until the game was over and it was junk ball and Elmore paddled his stats at the end.

So by this reply, I take it you, a)agree with the assessment of Cowart, and b)agree that Saul should have been retained

Noted.