This is going well...
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This is going well...
All of them need to go. Jans would do well with a clean slate.
Really sorry to see Garcia go. He was making really good strides at the end of last year. Him and Tolu had the biggest upswings at the end of the year.
Goodness. Lost all but 3 players. And there's still 5 more days to enter the portal. Have to pick up at least 5 guys from the portal.
Tolu & Murphy and who else is left?
Any chance there's some reconsiderations among the portal guys?
With his defensive prowess I thought he would fit in well with the scheme of Jans. Interesting.
Next year might be more of a rebuild than we wanted but it'll all work out I hope
Yeah can look at it 2 ways. Tolu could be "the man" as last one standing to build the team around or he could be like I ain't going down with the ship. Funny thing is, if he leaves he has to still break in a new coach and team. At least at MSU he has already won over the fan base and knows his way around things. He needs to stay for his own good too. It also would be his second transfer.
Well...this is what we seem to do....start all over at ground zero. Did it in football and now looks like basketball is following suit. Be careful what you wish for.....especially if you're a MSU fan.
Been saying it since last week but Jans has to get some players in ASAP.. I understand losing a couple players but he pretty much lost the entire team and the portal is dwindling down. Alot of these guys who have left lately have been around him working out the last couple of weeks.... maybe the players see something we don't. I personally wasn't impressed with his press conference, his personality just wasn't there for me like Howland or even new WBB coach Sam Purcell... but I'm still rooting for him
Damn, at this pace we might not make the dance like we usually do.**
Damn!! I hate losing Garcia, but I hate the NCAA and portal even more now!
We got a good coach so that's the most important thing. I suspect we will see good things happen in year two.
Why wouldn't every player enter the portal and see what their free market rate is?
I thought Garcia would bring the intensity that would be a perfect match for Jans. That being said, the analytics show him as an almost identical player/ shooter to Cameron Matthews. They both struggle shooting from the outside and from the free throw line, but bring defense/rebounding. I don't think you can really play both of them at the same time because you become way too easy to guard.
Howlands teams never showed a lack of effort, but his coaching had become outdated and slow. Jans seems like he can really coach but you have to be able to recruit in the SEC as well.. I know Jans beat Howland, he beat some other good teams too but when your playing Tennessee, UK, Arky, Auburn, Florida, Big 12 challenge etc week in and week out you have to have SEC talent... he may bring that in, just haven't seen it yet and it looks like most of last year's team is gone so he needs to get on it
This is technically what led to Frank Martin getting fired. He is a great coach from a coaching perspective, but he can?t recruit at all. I will say though this philosophy has a better chance at making a deep tournament run if you can keep the team together for a few years and develop the talent, but that?s extremely hard to do now with the portal. If I had to pick I would rather have a bad recruiter and great coach than the opposite. I think though as long as Jans can recruit at least middle tier of the SEC we will finish in the top most years.
Well hate to lose Garcia, he was our candidate for the 6th man award.
Iverson hires an agent so that ship officially has sailed.
At this stage what we desperately could use is a franchise tag. Beyond that magically occurring, things are not looking too good.