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You mean the Gonzaga team that played 8 P5 teams last year, 5 of which were ranked, 3 in the top 10 and then 3 more on their run to the elite 8? Don't be intentionally obtuse. Gonzaga is the basketball equivalent of ND at this point and there are few, if any, other non P5 teams that are in...

I think you do need to be a proven P5 player to justify not even thinking about a freshman as an alternative.

I was expecting him to at least push for playing time. Similar to how a bunch of recent players we've had were forced into earlier playing time than would be ideal due to issues with the roster. Gapare played 12.3 mpg for UMass and put up 3.4 points on 31% from the field. Dowuona logged 11...

It really shouldn't be that surprising. Our back court has lots of options but our front court is a 6-7 Claude who is unproven at the ACC level (good numbers last year at WCU though), and transfers Gapare and Dowuona that were less than impressive at their previous stops. Ndongo is our highest...

5 years aint early chief.

I mean compared to years past I pretty much haven't posted on the FB forum the past 10 or so months. Came back to twist the knife in a little but that is more just the petty in me than actual interest in the score. It's not like this game is going to be the reason Key is fired in 2 to 3 years.

Your concern is misplaced. I've completely gotten over it to the point I'm just sitting waiting for the next 2 and a half to three years to go by more than anything. Probably easier than trying to do the mental gymnastics it would take to delude myself into thinking Key is going to accomplish...

Because Key failed as OL coach and was promoted to HC primarily on the back of defensive play. How could he get rid of the DC who could make all the same arguments for why his bad performance the past 4 years should be overlooked? It should have been obvious that Thacker needed to go last...

Because Key is an alum. If Key had graduated from any other school he isn't head coach and he sure wouldn't have gotten a pass for his OL play the last 4 years.

I thought the argument against him was he wanted to bring his defensive staff from coastal with him?

Probably with using the same mindset that allowed us to hire Key as HC despite the OL play the last 4 years.

I don't completely agree. Yes, we have new faces but most teams will so it will be a more even playing field than if the same thing happened in the past. Also most of the ball handling a team running should be handled by a back court that has a lot of experience (2 5th year senior guards and 2...

I'd be surprised if Abram gets more minutes than Sturdy unless they are playing together extensively. Like Sturdy plays 25 minutes, and they play 15 together and Abram gets 15 minutes when Sturdy sits as well but even in that scenario I would imagine that Sturdy's numbers would be higher than...

Going to be an interesting year. We have a really nice combination of talent and experience (both individually and as a group) in our backcourt with Sturdy/Kelly/Terry/Coleman and adding Abram gives us another player that should allow us to go pretty deep in the back court. I think the biggest...

My guess it's something akin to a points per play for us minus points per play for our opponent. Likely doesn't include FCS games. Against Ole Miss we had 89 plays for 23 points. They had 56 plays for 48 points. Against UL we had 70 plays for 34 points. They had 65 plays for 39 points...

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So, after a night to sleep on it here are my following thoughts. Offense - continues to show promise. Overall yardage stats are good (300-170 ish split). However we still had only 3 points until about 2 minutes left in the third, and were down 24 - 3. Now, we had moved the ball and you...

I mean one could argue it but it wouldn't really make sense to. Blackburn has 5 receptions for 81 yards in his career. Lane had 409 yards as a freshman, which was a good mark, but followed that up with 132 and 76 yards the next two years. There are reasons to believe in both of them but...

The game against SC state doesn't really say anything which is basically the best case in a game like that. Too much difference in talent level to really draw many conclusions. So not really much has changed since the UL game. Against UL, King was very similar to the offense as a whole...

I feel like parsing it out by individuals needs a lot more context. 3 starters being inconsistent tacklers is a huge problem. That is 27% of your starters. Even more so because not all positions are going to be getting equal opportunities. For example a space eating DT isn't going to...