Egg on Gard's face, especially the finger pointing, not having conversations, etc. parts. Mind you that the guys who messed up even elementary basketball were the ones who were most critical of Gard (Nate, Aleem, Micah). Opposite of the tone from Trice and Brad. Have to think Gard righted the ship with the underclassmen as there were no transfers and if the main gripe came from the aforementioned senior class that most of the fanbase hated with a passion, then most in the program are happy at this moment. Wouldn't surprise me if it was Alando Tucker who recorded and released this conversation. For what it is worth, I don't enjoy having Gard at the lead all that much as it is.
Also, this is unfortunately old news that became public. From the other thread: Nate Reuvers is 7-feet and averaged 3 rebounds a game. Same guy that decided to live in a condo 12+ minutes away from campus when everyone else lives two blocks from the Kohl Center, and then whine about not feeling like a part of a family. Same guy that sang praise of Gard before he was benched for being a huge defensive liability. Bo Ryan was the bad cop, hard as shit on Sam Dekker and Kaminsky, who almost decided to transfer. Gard was the loved, good cop assistant coach. Now Gard is the bad cop and former player Alando Tucker was the good cop. Tucker took the players' grievances straight to the AD instead of to Gard and (supposedly) asked for Gard to be fired and to take over mid-season. Tucker was terminated in the off-season. Same article about Bo https://madison.com/sports/college/...-ea0dbd52d158.html#tracking-source=in-article Lots of dumb about this
It’s a minor miracle wiscy was as good at basketball as they were for a long time, program was bound for a major downturn
We finally got a ‘22. We finally got an in-state recruit Offers from Florida, Mizzou, Colorado & Seton Hall. He has seemed like one of our top targets based on the amount of mentions in recruiting stories.
Pharrell Payne is likely next, and the way Ryan James talks about his summer, it sounds like he could enter the conversation with Tre Holloman regarding who is the top recruit in the state.
We keep getting guys we have no business getting so I wonder if we are paying kids. That would be terrific.
Don't think he's 100% telling the full truth here, though I do tend to believe that a) he had at least some interest in playing at Minnesota (moreso for Fleck) and b) that Pitino wasn't recruiting him hard enough. But he had been lined up to go to Gonzaga since early in his junior season even if he wasn't officially committed to them, and I don't think a full push from Pitino changes that. I see it as more of a way to save face and saying "I wanted to stay close to home, but I decided not to because..." He's not the first to say it, as I've heard similar things from the Hurt camp with Matthew before he committed to Duke. I don't think he was choosing Minnesota over Duke either, but it provided enough reasoning to say "This is why I'm not going to Minnesota," when in reality they preferred to go to a place that is better set up to either get them to the NBA or play for a higher quality of team. It's debatable whether that worked out for Hurt (at least NBA-wise), but it certainly did for Suggs. Chet Holmgren is right in their with both of those guys, and I also heard talk about him being frustrated that he wasn't getting invites to campus from Pitino. It's another case where I don't think it matters at the end, because he was going to follow in Suggs' footsteps, but it provided an easy out for him to not choose Minnesota.
I liked Richard as a person. He has a good sense of humor and his family was great. But he definitely had a reputation for letting his assistant coaches do the recruiting and this is just another thing that squares with that.
It is fun seeing all the local players respond to the Suggs interview saying how they were ready to stay home as well. I'm not sure about Terry (I know Pitino slow played him, but he may have gone to Stanford anyways), but I 100% believe McKinley Wright is telling the truth in his case.
That is true. McKinley was planning to commit and then they took Jelly’s commitment the weekend before McKinley’s planned commitment so he switched plans and took other visits. That always seemed like a (bad) eval decision rather than flaw in recruiting.
300/1 seems too optimistic for Minnesota. I mean, I’m a season ticketholder and I’m not sure I can name 5 healthy players off the top of my head. I’ve never been less excited for a season.
I don't like guys who haven't played a single minute being named to pre-season AA teams, even our own.
eh, keeping off an awesome incoming freshman for no reason seems silly when you know a freshman or two is gonna end up on the All-Big Ten team at the end of the year
Can’t wait to learn a ton about IU tomorrow against *checks notes* kenpom ranked 297th Eastern Michigan…. Non con looking like the early crean years. Hopefully that will allow them to at least build some confidence beating up on overmatched teams.
Iowa gonna go 20-11, beat a few teams they shouldn’t, get beat by a few bottoms dwellers and get bounced in first round of BTT, then make it in as a 10 seed and get throttled by a team with athletes. Rinse and repeat, see you guys next year.
And yet, He’s less than 1 month older than noted Spartan Dawg and fellow sophomore Mady Sissoko, who may not even factor into the rotation this year? Woof.
I’m probably lower on Iowa this year than most people, but I don’t see how they get to 20 wins. They lose so much production from last year’s team, and the league is deeper than it was last year.
I think we will surprise people with how good our offense is considering what we lost. Keegan Murray is a All Big ten player, Patrick Mcaffery will be a guy that averages 12-14 a game also. Our defense will once again be bad to terrible. I’d say 20-21 wins is our ceiling.