This would be huge. 

Stop making sense, duq81.
 

My long term view is no dance since '77, and ending up last season as the third best team in Pittsburgh. If he can help put us on the map now, I'd like to see him play. If he helps make the Dukes good enough, there will be another guy there for us when he graduates.

 

ElDuque wrote:

My long term view is no dance since '77, and ending up last season as the third best team in Pittsburgh. If he can help put us on the map now, I'd like to see him play. If he helps make the Dukes good enough, there will be another guy there for us when he graduates.

 

ED, if I thought we were close to doing something (NIT at least), I would agree with you. Since I think we're not there yet, I'd rather save him for when we are there. I don't think there are a whole lot of minutes for him the next two years. If we get Ryan Luther, I expect that Ferry will go big next year, which will likely push Indy Jones into the backcourt. That won't leave much time for Mason. However, after White graduates, that will open up more minutes in the backcourt. If Mason is a junior, instead of a senior, he could position himself to become a starter after Colter and Jones graduate, getting far more playing time than he would this year. I just think that he will be a far more valuable piece, on a far better team in 2017, than he would be on a weaker team this year.

FAM wrote:

ElDuque,
Norm Nixons wasn't available.

Truthfully, we weren't very good when Norman was here. One winning season, an unimpressive 14-11 at that, and the one NCAA bid only happened because Keith Herron was injured, and couldn't play. The Bruce Atkins era was much better, but we haven't truly been good since 1972.

I would have take any jersey. Oh, well, I will live with the disappointment.

Mason's got NCAA D1 experience. We have exactly five other players who can make the same claim. Until I see guys play, I'm not convinced White and Colter are going to take all of the minutes at either guard position.

It is is important that the Dukes show some success this year, and if we have a guy in Mason that can help us win we need to play him.  Coach Ferry thinks it is important to have some early success to help recruiting as he said in his 3-31-13 interview with the PG. 

"We built the program [at LIU] to last and to be something that sustains itself, but it took a few years to get the talent level to where it needed to be and that's because you can't go out and grab everything you need in one class," Ferry said. "But at the same time, we feel like we are going to fill some needs this year and get a little better then build on it.

"And while we are interested in the long-term success, you have to have some short-term success as well in order to help with recruiting, so I would definitely take a junior college transfer or two if I thought they could help us win right now. I am not going to take a bunch of them and try to cut corners like that, but if one or two make sense, fit with our talent level and our university's standards and they can help us win, I would do it."

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2013/03/21/Dukes-Ferry-on-trail-to-future.html
 

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm.  Just curious.  A friend of mine put me onto the University of Minnesota men's basketball site and with particular attention to Joey King, a 6'9" FORWARD sophomore transfer from Drake. (He played there last year with Micah) Plus, Malik Smith, a 6'2' GUARD senior transfer from FIU (Richard Pitino's former school?).  BOTH WERE DECLARED ELIGIBLE IMMEDIATELY FOR THIS SEASON-NO WAITING PERIOD OR YEAR OUT-BY THE NCAA.  Neither the NCAA site nor Minnesota site nor the press releases give the reason(s) for the transfer eligibility requests that were granted.  I guess there must be a boatlaod of hardship's going on that can be remedied by the NCAA when your dad coaches the reigning national champs! Wonder if the mustard guy over at the Trib would care to know this?

Last edited by grammudder (10/28/2013 5:07 pm)