Can't Springs step in for him? Saul beat out East Choctaw Community College, his other offer, to get him... right? And Saul is a full-time basketball coach who is on salary to coach basketball and the rest of us are not... so we are not allowed to question it when he loads the roster with (what appears to our untrained eyes) to be a bunch of barely recruited scrubs that will be relied upon in the future years to be the heart of the lineup.

In Saul we trust.

He's not fast enough to catch my dog. (who also happens to be from the Carolinas)

I'll give him a thousand bucks if he is fast enough to catch this Carolina "American Dingo" dog...
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Getting back to the issue at hand, does anyone have any pertinent info on Carter’s health?

Thank you. It's nice to actually get an answer rather than another hate the coach post that's the easy response on here - in both boards.

Any word on Dartis' time table?

More Ellis Dozier. And the other guy who didn't even start on his juco team??? And the guys who were mostly only recruited by D-2 and NAIA schools?

In a couple of years Saul will be gone and the new staff will have to rebuild a doormat of the MAC leftover back into a competitive team and that will take a couple of season. Expect some hard times after this season. They're coming.

I would love to see the scrub recruits turn into blue chippers. Once in a while in college hoops a "project" player does turn into an all-conference player and once in a blue moon even an NBA prospect. Most stay Ellis Dozier.

This observation is based on many decades of keeping up with college basketball all over the nation... not just what happens in Athens or in the MAC. I could go ultra-positive unrealistically re: the direction Saul's recruiting has taken but that would not change what is on the verge of happening to the program. This season should be decent. Block, Dartis, Taylor...it will be tough to lose those 3 veteran players. I would love to be wrong and eat crow, but realistically... next season is going to be the start of a big downturn unless game changing transfers or grad transfers are involved.

If things do go really bad due to lack of legit D-1 talent in the next few seasons, feel free to blame my posts instead of the coaching staff. I don't mind.

(USF, Loyola Marymount, Detroit Mercy were really really bad last season, so that should help balance out the tough pre-MAC games this season like Xavier, etc)

Exactly. This kid is from the Charlotte area? (where you live, right?) There are at least 3 D-1 basketball playing schools in or near Charlotte. UNC-C, Davidson, Winthrop... did any of them offer? OK, spread the map out a bit... what about WCU where Larry Hunter coached? UNC-Asheville? ETSU? UNC-Greesnboro? Wake Forest? (ok, that last one was obviously said in sarcasm, sorry)

Hahahahahhaaaaa! :-)

By all means let's trash a young man before he even suits up. That's who we want to be, right?

I find the ridiculous uninformed complaining with the caveat, "Oh I hope I am wrong" or "I will gladly admit I was wrong if it turns out differently" not only to be uselessly annoying, but spineless, juvenile and just plain stupid. If you have something real to say, say it, back it up with solid analysis, own it and move on. Don't keep repeating yourself just because you were born a complainer and it gives you the kicks to vomit all over somebody else's day. I totally respect valid criticism but this stuff is trash and ruins an otherwise generally knowledgeable group of fans. And before we've even seen the team play together, before we have set eyes on some of these guys in Bobcat uniforms? Come on. If this is what people want to do on BA I'm done.

More like a year from December or January. We'll revisit this in 14-15 months.

Unless your livelihood is tied to knowing who any of these guys are before they ever hit the court in a game, I'd suggest The Brian Smith System of Player Evaluation and Fandom.

Be completely oblivious to who everybody new is and then you can just assume they're all great for six months. Then when they start playing, you can sort through who's a keeper and who's not but still keep it to yourself. And then you'll be wrong with that analysis anyways but your opinion on the players won't be out there so nobody knows you got it wrong. So then when they're juniors you just say knowingly on here: "I knew this kid was special. I knew it from day one" while the guys who you actually thought would be good have transferred to a community college in the plains states.

You can't lose with my system, which dovetails into my life system I've been perfecting in the real world for 10 years now: Just shut up and people will think you're smart.

I save my hot takes and uninformed blabbering for the coaches. Because they get paid a lot of money to deal with bozos like me.