2025-26 PSU MBB Thread
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Richmond did handle LaSalle more easily than PSU did last year. And, as of now, we're worse off than we were last year. We're comfortably in the Patriot/Ivy League conversation. A10 is a bit too optimistic.
DISGUSTING-sorry if already posted
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Pourover: The diminishing returns of an increased NIL budget
You can’t win in College Basketball with money alone. Although it helps.
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Yup sad that it’s so high already. They deserve nil but pay for play is out of handDISGUSTING-sorry if already posted
Pourover: The diminishing returns of an increased NIL budget
You can’t win in College Basketball with money alone. Although it helps.
4? Yeah thats maybe a bit high at the moment. Torvik has us way below the rest of the league at 151 with Rutgers next lowest at 82. Of course they dont even have ten guys to list as contributors so the ranking could go up a bit. I think they will be lucky to get 2 conference wins unless the Euros are better than anticipated or they can somehow find a scoring wing left in the portal.
1.16 U.S. dollar vs Euro. Not bad, but not strong.Is the exchange rate for the euros favorable?
I hope so since this seems to be the way this roster will be coordinated in the future. Not using all 15 spots so they can offer a bit more $ to the actual players and then finding a few overseas candidates to playIs the exchange rate for the euros favorable?
Or maybe hire a head coach who can recruit better players. Filling up on mediocre transfers isn’t going to do it regardless of the assistants you bring in to teach them.
We keep giving the resources that we give and we’ll get the same result. In the meantime, I’ll take a solid assistant coaching hire.
The staff realizes that they don’t have the $ to pay for 15 players so they are looking for 10 good ones and then find decent practice players who will accept that role to get a D1 scholarship. This is a pretty smart way to utilize his resources
I get it, we don’t have the resources allocated to be good, so an assistant coaching hire isn’t going to help much.
Last year Kraft shorted the team ~$1m so revenue sharing + NIL was around $5m. Supposedly some big donors were pissed at Kraft, but it looks like this year is still only going to be around $6m. Last year the B1G average was reported to be $9m. I don't think Rhoads is a good coach and being a bottom feeder spender makes everything worse. I do like the assistant coach hire Stephens tho. Hopefully, he'll be the D coordinator because Rhoads is definitely not good at coaching D.
Yep, like I said in an earlier post, I spoke with a member of the staff personally and he said that they cant pay an entire roster with the amount they have. They are willing to try and keep a smaller roster of actual game players and use the extra spots for guys who are willing to just get the scholarship and 'play' at a power 4 school.
Rodgers, Blums, Byers, one of the euros and Juric should be the starters, but after that it gets weak. Gemao looks like a guy that could only give a couple minutes here and there, so expect Rodgers to play 35 minutes, Oboh can spell Juric and maybe play with him for spurts. Allard is another guy to maybe give sport rests and then whoever out of Prkacin (6'9), Zecevic (6'9) and Wibaut (6'6) that doesnt start will have to be the bench.
They really want Byers to play more of a '3' for them this year and not have to help guard bigger guys so that leads me to think one of the bigger Euro's starts. I'd think they will slow the tempo and run stuff specifically for Juric and Byers most of the time.