Mag visiting San Diego State
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Aren't we looking at an SDSU transfer? I wonder who gets more money lol.
It's an ideal fit for Mag. It'll be fun to see him next season. I expect him to have a good season after a year removed from major injury and a full off season. Maybe we will see him in the NCAA tournament
USD is very different than SDSU
Very telling. SDSU only got involved when a key player entered the portal just before the deadline. Looks like mags handlers overplayed their hand. Doesn’t seem like there was much interest.
RU fans can see him in Vegas in the other pod, if he goes to SDSU.
Is his latest recovery gonna be from a heart transplant?
Kid visiting is from USD. USD is in the WCC that includes Gonzaga, St. Marys, USF, Santa Clara, LMU and Pepperdine. Their competition level is not Big Ten/SEC/ACC/BigEast/Big 12 level up and down the league, but still pretty good. SDSU is in Mountain West, which does have UNLV, Nevada and Fresno state, but arguably I think is the weaker conference up and down its roster.
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Trying to claim Mag visiting SDSU is proof he didn't have interest is an odd take to say the least. They have clearly been a better program than Rutgers. We also have no idea what other programs showed interested
Rutgers should be the better team next season though
I think he'll be met back indifferently if he goes there. He got a "polite" ovation on senior day despite the rumors floating around at the time.A return to the RAC if he chooses USC.
Time for RU fans to move on and never mention his name here again.A return to the RAC if he chooses USC.
I don't get all of the hate. The kid suffered one freak injury after another and never really got untracked here but he was a solid player who gave his all when he did play. We don't know what really happened but if he was worried about reinjuring himself that is understandable. The mental aspect of coming back is tougher than the physical rehab.
Talk to Richie. The hate comes from what was reported about the situation on the podcast.
Didn’t say anything about status of program. For all intents and purposes this is the first documented case of a program having interest. And the point was SDSU only showed interest because they got Spencered and Mulcahy’d with a key player leaving the day before the portal deadline. Otherwise their roster was full and they would have had no interest in Mag. Even though sdsu took multiple transfers. So how is that an odd take to say the least?
I'm more with you on this than others, but understand we are in the minority.
Nothing against Richie or anyone else with supposed inside information. But the guys formerly with this board and now on TOS were either dead wrong or off base on a couple of things in the past, namely on the hiring of Greg 2.0. They did a lot of damage, and people still parrot that **** like it is gospel.
And besides, Gavin backed Mag on his injuries, FWIW.
“Gavin backed Mag on his injuries!”
If that’s not implicating….
Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
If that’s not implicating….
Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
No idea why you’re even calling me out?
I was laughing at you saying Gavin backed Mag. People normally want more reputable witnesses.
Misunderstood you laughing emoji.
Only Mag and his doctors know whether he could have played, despite being "cleared to play."
Fairly sure that people understand how rumors work and get twisted out of proportion on teams, in workplaces, etc. It starts with, "Fred told me he stole a pencil from the stock room." Then it morphs to Bob saying "Jim told me that Fred told him that he stole a computer from an empty office." Then he tells two friends and so on and so on, and by they time the story reaches further, Fred has stolen a million dollars worth of stuff from the company. Having been a victim of rumor and innuendo in an organization, it's quite illuminating and sad and hilarious at the same time.
EDIT- to put a point on it. Some 6-7 years later, people said to me, you know, Mr. X said that you demanded certain things when you came into the organization, and now we realize Mr. X was a toxic liar. We thought you were a problem, when really it was Mr. X (a high level supervisor) was the problem.
So, I am always very circumspect to this type of thing where a person gets painted as a problem via rumor an innuendo.
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San Diego State is not UCSD. There’s San Diego State, University of San Diego, and University of California-San Diego.
I wasn’t intending to opine on the reliability of what was said one way or the other. I was responding to the post about not understanding where the negativity came from. The podcast was the source.
Yes, I get it. And I am not implying the Richie is wrong. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. It all depends on the source of the information. However, if it is not firsthand (or from the horse's mouth), IMO, it's not particularly reliable. As I noted, I had this happen once in an organization, and the source was a higher level person who blackballed me on day 1 for no particular reason, and it took years to wipe the slate clean after that person had left the organization and people realized what a toxic turd that person was.
As Public Enemy famously sang:
There is literally a post with teams interested in this thread a few posts up
If you want to hate Mag, that's fine I get it. Just bc you WANT there to be no interest in Mag doesn't mean there was no interest in Mag
Every team is looking to replace players who left in the portal so that argument is silly
Someone posted this on the RT... think it's OK to quote since it's not premium info from the mods
The defensive numbers won't make you smile...
"I was hoping to prove otherwise but the advanced defensive metrics are very bad. His 111.7 defensive rating (higher # is worse) on Fox Sports would be much worse than anyone on Rutgers since they started tracking it in 2017. The closest I found was Gavin Griffiths last year at 103.1. The silver lining is his 120.5 offensive rating (Higher # is better) is better than anyone on Rutgers since 2017. Cam Spencer's 119.4 rating last year was the next highest. Spencer's O rating his last year at Loyola MD was 116.5."
Don’t hate Mag at all. I think he is leaving because of outside influence. But I don’t hate him. And if you are referencing the tweet. How do I refer to a tweet that appeared a full 12 hours after my post?
As far as all teams replacing player in the portal, no ****. But a player that enters the portal without having a predetermined landing spot is an idiot. And SDSU didn’t have interest in Mag because they were full and already replaced 3 people ahead of him. Keep trying though.
Your post quoted was after the post with Mag's options
Not having a predetermined landing spot doesn't make you an idiot. Tell that to Cliff or Cam
Stop the post you came at me for was posted at 6:15 am yesterday. And none of those teams were mentioned as landing spots until yesterday in that tweet. And again SDSU had no interest in Mag until they got Spencered. I wish mag well.
Both Cliff and cam were coaxed into the portal with garunteed landing spots and a payday.
Come on man! Try better.
Does it really matter when or why they are now interested in him though? They are a damn good program, that was recently in the final four, has never lost less than 20 under the coach, and have a couple 30 win years.
It doesn’t. I think SDSU would be a great spot for him to land. But I do find it interesting the timing and that they didn’t get involved until late in the game when Mag has been in the portal for an eternity.
I heard some of the rumors but I don't deal in rumors other than Fleetwood Mac. Everyone thinks they know but they don't.