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We're looking for a 5 star center from the homeschooling league 
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Sha’s been able to recognize and reel in some types like Bediako and Payne, so guessing something along those lines from those types of places.
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to paraphrase Carino I fear we have more reason to mope than hope. I'm thinking we have spent little so far of the reported $8 million
We should have a lot of money left. 500-750k each for WilcherJones & Thomas? I can’t see paying more for them.
It’s pretty obvious, that his preference for a center is someone that can rebound and/or block shots. We just can’t afford a center that has any offensive ability to go along with that.
That’s what he needs at the position to play his pressure switching defense; you need an anchor in the back to compensate for the aggressiveness in the front.
While we don’t have the money for multiple stars Sha is also unwilling to invest a high % of the budget into one star even.
We could do a lot worse than Payne IMO. He was good on the glass and defensively for much of the year.
My guess is we spent more than double on the 3 you mentioned when combined.
Josiah Parker is a good fit for Sha and Seton Hall. If you can get him to commit at the 4 and bring in one is these lesser conference or backup centers out there it’s something.
Sha gave Payne 700k, now it comes out Dar made the 4th most on the team.
If he paid 7figures for Thomas/Jones/Wilcher he needs his head examined. I thought this GM was supposed to help with NIL
If he paid 7figures for Thomas/Jones/Wilcher he needs his head examined. I thought this GM was supposed to help with NIL
If Payne had eligibility left, in this market he'd probably get close to 2M.
This board and SHU fans need a solid big to commit soon or folks will be jumping overboard. We are who we are. It does not appear that things are changing at SHU even with a GM in place.
At this point it appears that Piratz will play the 4, SPK will be our undersized center and Dehere will be the three at 5-9 but I heard he plays bigger than his height. I'll continue as waterboy but I'm ready to go if needed. All come at a home team discount. Fishjam is taking over at GM. Seton 75 will take the priests role because our priest wanted too much in NIL.
At this point it appears that Piratz will play the 4, SPK will be our undersized center and Dehere will be the three at 5-9 but I heard he plays bigger than his height. I'll continue as waterboy but I'm ready to go if needed. All come at a home team discount. Fishjam is taking over at GM. Seton 75 will take the priests role because our priest wanted too much in NIL.
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Even Mbaye may be getting a million! And looking at where college BB is at it would not surprise me. In fact if Mbaye was on some other BE team this past season and Sha brought him in you would be very happy to have a 7'2" center on the roster!
Crazy how people here under value Payne's contribution to this past year's team. Having two legit centers on an undersized team was a big reason why we improved so much from 24-25.
I would love to get a commitment from Josiah Parker, then have him help us recruit his former teammate from FAU, Devin Williams, to help "save" us. I just think with what we've already likely spent in NIL on the first five players we've gotten (and Trey Parker), even that might be too big of a swing and still enable us to get five more deep bench players.
Payne was not a legit center. He was a skinny 6'9" forward forced to play center. He had some good games and some very bad games.
Yes he was an undersized center, but he's not a forward since he can't shoot beyond 2 feet away from the basket.
Everyone is looking at the transfer portal but in days past we would land 3 and 2 star high school players who would be developed into productive kids on the court. This can still be a source to fill out the roster if you land the right kids who are being overlooked by schools buying experienced talent instead.
Huh? We brought Hines in last year and that worked well! We also have Moore coming in this year. I can see a few more HS kids coming in.
Hines was a good find. It’s all about the portal now. Guys don’t stay 3 or 4 years anymore.
If you have and are willing to spend for transfers. Maybe it opens up a lesser paid market for true freshman.
There's actually a good argument to be made that says we are actually better off in the portal world than we were without it based on our previous HS recruiting results. We just need to figure out how to hold on to our top talent. It's NIL that's killing us
I didn’t see any athleticism to suggest he was a forward on this level. He was a center after watching him play. A bit undersized in height, maybe. Regardless he wasn’t skilled enough but he was a helpful backup center IMO.
But look at the centers we brought in under Holloway. That’s what you’re going to get. We’re not going to break the budget on someone like Hines or even when Sha scoffed at Samuel. It’s not happening. So let’s hope we find a serviceable big from a midmajor.
Payne
Erheriene
Okorafor
Bediako
Hutchins-Everett
If I had a nickel for every time @shu67 mentioned Mbaye, I'd have a jet on 24-hour standby
That's funny,,,you can park it in the same Hanger with Hines' jet at Teterboro
The original poster said more than double 500-750 (which is 1Mil-1.5) combined for all three. So you're saying we got all three of Wilcher, Jones, and Thomas for around 2 million combined?
For this economy that's actually not bad if Wilcher and Jones are expected to start and Thomas is a high percentage outside shooter.
I guess you never saw Bayonne Taty and Jacky Kaba?
Can you imagine how many assists Sha would have if he played with guys who could catch the ball?
The post I was responding to said this:
dehere23 said:
My guess is we spent more than double on the 3 you mentioned when combined.
I think we spent like $2.75m for all three combined.