This transfer definitely upsets me.  Q was our best player as far as our freshmen were concerned (debatable with J. Jones and Colter) although I must admit to hating how he chucked up threes like he was Reggie Miller.  Most of the time he didn't even look at the basket.  Still, if Ferry is going to build a winning program, he HAS to have stability.  We can't have constant turnover and we are already off to a bad start.  I'm happy about our recruiting class thus far, but I was hoping they would be added to our current class.  I just can't imagine there being many talented players to replace Q, and we have a snowballs chance in hell of landing Severe.  

DU hoops is a like a whore house, come in for a quickie, leave and dont look back.
 

Last edited by townsonkid (4/16/2013 8:39 am)

Losing Q is the worst of the turnover so far. It sounds like he truly wants to be near his family and that he wasn't given the boot here. Let's move on and get some more good kids. Levin would be a solid player, from what I've seen, to add to a fairly impressive group of recruits. I will reserve any judgement of Ferry & Co. and the mass exodus until such time as we know what we have on the court next season. It could and should be a higher caliber of player overall. A team that went 8-21 last year should not have too many keepers!

I hated to see Q leave the program.  Every good team needs a guy like Q who can get you points in a hurry; and his ability to hit 3 or 4 "threes" in a row is tough to lose.  He also got good elevation on his shot and got it off quickly so it is hard to block.   I think some people thought this was a sign that he was taking bad shots; but they are only bad if you can't hit them.  No doubt he wasn't a complete player by any means, but he had time to work on his game to round it out.  I will miss seeing him develop into a more complete player and deliver those points in bunches.
Some of the posters on this board don't seem to understand that transfers are an epidemic in college sports.  It's not just a Duquesne issue.   Nearly 500 other basketball players across the country have already announced they will transfer and more will follow.  These guys just don't think of it as any big deal to transfer; even if it means sitting out a year.  It has to make coaching a difficult proposition, since you can't even look at a kid the wrong way, and he is transferring the next day.

Yikes, bad spelling sentence structure, sorry boys!

I really do not like the position our coaching staff is in right now.  They have missed out on three kids that they put a lot of energy into that could have been difference makers (Dayshon Smith to Dayton, Castro to Butler & Notice to SC).   I have little hope they will land Severe, and the prospect for kids that can truly make a difference are very slim.  With the loss of Winters, they now are late in the recruiting season with three, count them three, open scholarships trying to get in on kids they were not previously recruiting. We are now trying to recruit from a pool of dwindling prospects for kids who can contribute, and competeing against big schools looking for bench players.

Last edited by CLK (4/16/2013 1:26 pm)

Westender wrote:

Levon said,"Some of the posters on this board don't seem to understand that transfers are an epidemic in college sports.  It's not just a Duquesne issue.   Nearly 500 other basketball players across the country have already announced they will transfer and more will follow.  These guys just don't think of it as any big deal to transfer; even if it means sitting out a year."
 
Wasn't it Ron Everhart who said, " that transfers are an epidemic in college sports."

Now I'm waiting for the GA apologists to point out that Everhart's tranfers were Ron's running off of his own players. Transfers are an unfortunate but commonplace thing in college sports today - regardless of the reason. It's just an accepted fact of life these days - unless of course you wanted to use that fact to fire a coach.

Or Ron's transfer rate was much hire than most schools.

Westender wrote:

Steve, were you one of the guys in Amodio's ear, or should I face, pushing him to dump Everhart?

No. I've only ever contacted Amodio once and that was about a bus trip to VA Tech for the 2008 NIT.

Five players leave in mass exodus from Duquesne basketball
April 16, 2013 2:59 pm
By Paul Zeise / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/duquesne/five-players-leave-in-mass-exodus-from-duquesne-basketball-683706/#ixzz2QepOtwtU

Last edited by CLK (4/16/2013 2:47 pm)

would be nice if Mason didnt have to sit out the year.  Seems like he is honestly transferring for health reasons.

CLK wrote:

We are taking a beating over the transfers on Twitter on the day before the start of the signing period.  Hope our 4 commits don'y have a change of heart.

4 people saying something on twitter does not constitute a beating.

Only three of those were posted when you made that comment. Zeise isn't bashing either, just reporting. He goes on to say that Winters was the only player that mattered.

Last edited by steve19981 (4/16/2013 3:25 pm)

steve19981 wrote:

Winters was the only player that mattered.

Bingo. The rest were guys who can't play at this level. When you go 8-22, that means you don't have enough talent. Most of them couldn't play at the NEC level, which Bobby Mo showed us. I guess we should have kept them all, so that the 8-22 seasons would keep coming.