Recent content by DWRedbird

Were I to guess, he likely got in his head. Would benefit greatly from having a sit down with a sports psychologist.

I think in Pedon's offense, he can play the 4 as the 4 isn't an on the block big for Pedon, its more of a stretch 4. The thing he'd have to improve on is boxing out on the defensive end.

My guess is that Pedon picks up another stretch 4. It fits the scheme that he wants to run.

ISU needs to hit up its big $ alums for NIL money to get it flowing, they need to get some players that are very popular in the community and hype them up big time so that they are more attractive to companies, and they need to beg/borrow/steal advertising dollars for players from the bigger...

The NCAA is going to keystone cops their way around this for more than a few years. My guess is one of two things will happen, one the NIL will end up regulating itself as large backers will stop seeing value of giving kids 100k to play one year for their team, only for their team to not get...

The star rating aren't even all done based on who is recruiting them. One recruiting site uses a composite of fan grades in terms of stars to grade recruits and another uses a composite average of other sites. In my opinion, the star eval system is only good for top 20 recruits nationwide...

I agree I think its unlikely to happen unless we get a permanent AD. But, I'd throw out there that if donors and boosters start getting vocal about it, it probably pushes the needle closer to moving on. Especially with the state that college basketball is in.

I think he'll do fine, and likely average somewhere close to what he did now. Were I to hazard a guess, probably in the range of 10 and 8 or so for a P6 team.

When the P6 teams used to play in the CBI and CIT they didn't draw numbers of significance, and they stopped going. This will end up as a novelty act just like the others. They'll get sub .500 P6 teams to play and their fans will think it is neat, but everyone outside of teams playing won't...

The best part of this is that this tourney will feature a lot of scrub P6 teams with Fox thinking it will draw big numbers and it will get about the same numbers as the CBI and CIT.

I voted for C

I wouldn't be shocked to see him end up there, Syracuse, St. Johns, or Rutgers

Thats fair. I'm thinking more in terms of how Pedon has the offense flow. Someone who is quick, like DB was, doesn't really fit unless they can shoot the 3 really well.

I agree with A and C. For B, I'd disagree slightly. While lateral speed will be important on defense, in Pedon's offense we don't need him to be able to be fast towards the basket. Shooting the 3 well is much more important for the offense our coaches want to run and I'd target that.

I would disagree that DB fit into Pedon's offense. DB was an up tempo player who worked better when slashing toward the bucket and either driving it or pulling up for a jumper. That is not what Pedon's offense is about. I thought a lot of the time he played this year, when the birds weren't...