I'm not so sure that Watkins is that big of a loss. If he was as good as was hoped, he certainly would have seen a lot more PT once he was activated. Something just didn't add up there.

Are you kidding me? Did we lose? Last I heard, the Dukes were up by 10 with less than 5 minutes to go. Good Lord!

Colin must be a couple steps behind his brother is it was an "all or none" proposal; The fact that Ryan Luther committed to Pitt isn't the least bit surprising to me.

duq81 wrote:

xlopjoe wrote:

SkepticAl wrote:

Add another name to the list (who was ALSO a one year player at the Bluff)  If Soko can even APPROACH this guy's one year - we could be tournament bound!!!   (I'm talking about Mark Stevenson!!)

 Yeah, hands down, Stevenson had to be the best one-year player the Dukes ever had.

Keep in mind though, that team was bereft of talent, so Carroll pretty much gave Stevenson the green light to do whatever he wanted. He would never have put those numbers up if the team had been more talented. Not that he wasn't good, but he wouldn't have had quite the same freedom on a good team.

 Yeah, you're probably right. That team was really bad. Stevenson was probably the single legitimate Division I player on the team....he almost had to put up those numbers.

SkepticAl wrote:

Add another name to the list (who was ALSO a one year player at the Bluff)  If Soko can even APPROACH this guy's one year - we could be tournament bound!!!   (I'm talking about Mark Stevenson!!)

 Yeah, hands down, Stevenson had to be the best one-year player the Dukes ever had.

Are there going to be enough scholarship players to have 5 on 5 practice games? We had lots of turnover under Everhart. Looks like Ferry is going to pursue a similar course of action. Either that, or the kids opting out can't stand playing for him. One way or another, it still doesn't look good.

So, who are the players that make up this class? I see Watkins listed on Scout's database. Watkins and White are listed on the Rivals base. I know we have Jordan Robinson and Desmond Ridenour. Is there another player coming in this year?

 

Glad to hear this, but I sure wish he'd be available next year. Oh well, might work out for the better because it's gonna take another good recruiting effort next year to make this team competitive and then he'll be hopefully be able to play out his last couple of years with a better cast of players.

Here's something that might work in our favor......The Gamecocks have 2 shooting guards committed already. One of them, Sindarius Thornwell, is a 4 star recruit, rated as the #5 SG in the country.

The bad Karma kicked in when they fired Mike Rice.

Thanks again for naming the players....made your point pretty thouroughly.

C'mon, that's just evil! Who were players A through H?

It's a good thing to retain the top coaches in the conference and keep them there. However, to turn down UCLA, does he maybe have some insider knowledge that VCU will be offered a spot in the BE soon? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but when it comes to BE expansion/raiding I'm always concerned.

Usually I'm pulling like crazy for our felloow A10 schools to do well in the tournament, but this year...meh.

The A10 has done exceeding;y well so far, but with this caveaut......Temple wins, gone next year. St Louis wins, gone next year. One year member, Butler, wins....gone next year. So even taking pride in the accomplishments of the conference is feeling kind of an empty pride this time around.