That doesn’t make sense to me. The 20-21 season didn’t count for eligibility, and then everyone gets 4 to play 5. I mean… I’d take it, but, to quote Offs Riggs and Murtaugh, that’s pretty thin.
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That doesn’t make sense to me. The 20-21 season didn’t count for eligibility, and then everyone gets 4 to play 5. I mean… I’d take it, but, to quote Offs Riggs and Murtaugh, that’s pretty thin.
Agreed he needs to improve that to get a really good look, the rest of his game is there and playing for TJ is going to have him more ready on defense than most other young players he'll be competing with.
If Curtis can get his 3pt shooting into that "otherwordly" zone he's shown glimpses of he'll get a look too.
If “a few” means 10+, then I’ll entertain the prospect. I think he’s an outstanding college player with potential for a long career, but his game that doesn’t quite translate to the NBA. The one thing to note is his FT percentage is way up, so a team might take a chance in hopes that his 3pt shot comes around.
I imagine that Jones and Otz got asked about it so they both gave generic answers. Especially since everything about the NCAA is constantly changing. I think they probably just aren't in a position to say he definitely would or wouldn't get another season.
Diego Pavia's situation is pretty clearly not the same as Jones's situation (Pavia played 2 years at a Juco, 2 years at New Mexico State, then this season at Vandy, for three total FBS seasons).
That all said, if the articles I'm seeing give all the information regarding the NCAA's new rule/waiver for the situation, it seems like it could accidentally include someone like Jones? Here's a story and below is the relevant text.
That seems like it would apply to Jones, as he competed at a non-NCAA school for one season, and would exhaust his eligibility in the 2024-25 season. The memo with the waiver really should have added a requirement that the athlete has not competed in 4 non-covid NCAA seasons.
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Otz is prefect for this current system. He's capable of looking at his team at as a whole and defining strengths and weaknesses and addressing those things through the portal. He's also built enough of a culture to bring in different guys have them assimilate. I can't imagine how hard it is to go to get guys at different points in their careers looking for different things and getting them to buy in. But if you watched the bench when Chatfield was going off Monday, Dishon was the happiest guy for him. He's eating his minutes in Dishon's last year here, but he's genuinely happy for him. That's such a hard thing to accomplish as a coach.
Dishon has 1 more year of eligibility. Chatfield is in his last year.
I mean that he was superb from the get go. Everyone makes mistakes here and there, but he understood the defense right away. Didn't take him a year and a half.
Huh? You said he was a good not great coach. Then you agree with the comment that he is a great coach?
If he is not a great coach, who is?
I think the answer on GREAT coach will show in how many offers he gets to go elsewhere. I am not worried about him taking them, but what a great resume.
That’s like the old army commercials saying we do more before 8 a.m. than most people do all day…which made me ask, “That’s a selling point?”
I got a call on the teen line in high school at 5:00am.... "why haven't you signed up for the Marines"
ME: "If it starts at 5:00am maybe I don't want to be a ****** Marine"
ME: "If it starts at 5:00am maybe I don't want to be a ****** Marine"
You literally said he isn’t a great coach. Wha other metrics would he have to check for you to consider him one? 3 tournaments made in 3 years, two sweet sixteens, a number 2 seed in the tournament, a big 12 tournament championship, and now number 3 in the country. Has recruited very well, used the transfer portal incredibly, hired great assistants, has built an amazing culture, the list goes on and on. Maybe he isn’t some master play caller, but he does so much so damn well. What the hell else do you want?
Certainly moronic comment of the year so far goes to you.
He's currently 34 wins behind Fred (81 to 115) at ISU - and just tied Tim Floyd's 81 in the last game. Prohm had 97 and Eustachy had 101.
Jefferson was an absolute steal and very very underrated in the portal analysis. He's an absolute stud - and if he can shoot 35+% from 3 next year, he'll be a candidate for Big XII player of the year. I think he's going to be the clear leader and star of the team next year. He's got all the pieces. When talking about the best transfers - he's probably going to be on top of the list when he's done here.
NOT SOLD ON JEFFERSON!
Don't trust the guy.
Why?
Too smooth. Too strong. Too composed, Too skilled. Too ruthlessly efficient. Too ice cold and calculating.
Might be one of those AI cyborgs we keep hearing about that is hell bent on world domination.
Don't trust the guy.
Why?
Too smooth. Too strong. Too composed, Too skilled. Too ruthlessly efficient. Too ice cold and calculating.
Might be one of those AI cyborgs we keep hearing about that is hell bent on world domination.
If true, which is debatable at best...
That's why he has the excellent staff he assembled which seems to love working with him and for him.
I don't agree with your assertion, but I get where you're coming from. I won't drag you for this one. But I do think he has done enough and cut his chops for long enough underneath others along the way to demonstrate he is now also a great coach on the floor, too.
But he is unquestionably a masterful program leader, talent evaluator, and culture builder. Which ultimately that's what takes so many X's and O's wiz kids down in the HC position, honestly.
There's so much at stake when you're in that drivers seat. You draw up the wrong play call, you can make a stop and get the ball back. Someone bails u out with a hand in their face.
You start missing on kids or pushing the wrong buttons mentally and punish the wrong guys and reward the wrong guys? You start sending out mixed signals or look in over your head? You start letting the wrong things slide and bring the hammer down for silly things? Prohm McCaffery City, baby!
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recruiting was way different back then. Transfers basically weren't a thing. Not knocking TJ here, but it was waaay harder to rebuild a disaster back in those days than it is now.
Furthermore, baylor was a waaaaay worse disaster than ISU was when TJ took over. One player murdered another player and the coach told other players to tell the investigators that the deceased player did not take improper payments from him, but got extra money from dealing drugs.
again, no knock on TJ, but that Baylor situation was next level.
Scott Drew should, and probably will, go down in history as one of the best coaches of all time for what he did with baylor.
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Fair enough assessment. Scott Drew is amazing, but I hope TJ owns him this afternoon!
