Fall, Nwuli and Badalau are all in the portal . . . .
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Honestly, other than Francis, no one's particularly worth retaining.
I'm sure Dortch, Badalau and Fall were Rutgers decisions
Speculation.... or is it official on Nwuli. Don't see his name on On3 tracker,
Good thing we didn't have Badalau and Fall locked into multi year contracts like some people claim they want.
I wouldn’t cry over them having multi year contracts.
They’re both bench pieces who would be bench pieces next year as well.
Unless we are spending like idiots, guys like that should have zero impact on our self imposed salary cap.
Good news, let’s get some more of them in there. Need to get rid of as much of this dead weight as possible.
Anybody on this roster can be replaced with someone at least as good for the same money. The fact that we look at him as a key player tells you all you need to know about this roster.
Kind of hoping he’d stick around. Thought he got better over the year.
in all seriousness those three should have to give back every penny they received
Not sure if serious, but I think there would still be 1-year deals, and for 2-year deals there would be a buyout clause if a team wants to end the deal after one year.
This team lost 20 games. The more that leave, the better
I don’t think you have a realistic picture of how little experience 1M is going to get us in the portal. To get an experienced higher level player there’s a pretty good chance we’re shelling out 2M, unfortunately. Neither you nor anyone else have any basis for assuming another low major kid from an NJIT type school is going to come in and be better than Tariq or any of the others we have because when you recruit low major it’s a crap shoot. You don’t really know when you recruit mid tier A-10 kids either. There is a big difference in competition level. A proven high major kid is going to cost us a lot of money. We need to pay it for a center and a PF. We probably can’t afford to do so elsewhere.
are you talking about me? Because IF you are that's a misrepresentation of what I suggested.
We have someone with access to the portal and not one of them is in there yet.....but....
A bunch of peoole have said that multi year contracts are needed.
I wasn't really thinking of anyone in particular.
No, not “forever” just next season. Realistically, Pike can’t turn over an entire roster in one season and have any shot at being competitive. What SHU did would be an absolutely ceiling (that’s with hitting on every mid-major hauled in), Pike doing a much better job figuring out roster rotations early and managing a collection of new comers better than ever before - AND even still doesn’t translate into even bubble consideration with a BIG schedule.
When you get a new coach, sure, you wipe the slate clean and that coach knows he’s not gone if he doesn’t make the NCAAs year one. It’s different. No tourney and Pike is gone. I’m sure he knows it. Pike, as a standing, struggling coach would have a very hard time attracting a brand new roster of up and comers in the first place (a new coach can try to sell a vision for change). And there’d be a much lower one year probability of him getting to the tourney so there’s no way he would choose this strategy. Of course - it’s TBD who he convinces to stay on and how he manages the portal to build around them. The goal is NCAAs though for next season - not a NATTY.
Badalau and Austin Williams were two RU players that suffered from the same disease…..called Oldmanitis. Two of the slowest and least athletic guys I’ve seen, Williams had an injury but still I swear I could cross them up and beat them on a drive and I’m in my Mid 50s.
He might start there early but they have a nice program and he’ll sink soon thereafter. Too slow.
If Badalau raced Myles Johnson around the bases starting yesterday Myles would be only be rounding second by sundown today. Oh how short your memory.
Maybe - but MJ had way better hands and footwork in the post which matters a heck of a lot more than sprint speed.
Myles had terrible hands. Couldn't catch, dribble, shoot or pass. Played O like he was wearing boxing gloves. And his footwork was merely kicking his dribbles or low passes out of bounds. Good post footwork leads to good shots and that never happened.
His serviceabiliy/capability was on D only, being a tall wide-body in the lane therefore being closer for rebounds.
Anyhow, Shelby's point was that Badalau is not nearly 'one of the slowest'.
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Cool. No Myles - no NCAAs. Swap him for a Lathan type. No tourney for us. No chance.
I wish Denis success at Towson. I know now that Grant will be at Charlotte, Dorch to Notre Dame and Badalou to Towson. Thus Zrno, Nwuli, Ogbole, Jones and Fall have not yet landed with another team. I saw Zrno had some interest from Vanderbilt, Louisville and Kentucky and a few others but nothing has happened yet. Somehow I think a few of these guys might not get picked up by anyone. If they don't get picked up it might be a poor decision by them. The one guy I wouldn't mind coming back would be Nwuli. He was very good on defense and he was the loudest guy always at practice always hollering on defense to his other team members. He always seemed to be so into everything and was always so friendly to me anytime I was at practice. I think he has some real upsize. Dorian Jones I still cannot understand left after sitting out as a redshirt. I still wonder if he got a slice of the money for our playing in Las Vegas. It just doesn't seem right to me that he decided to leave without ever playing in a game.
Id take Nwuli back and was disappointed he left, but not sure what precedent that sets.
