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He missed his first 3 years at Auburn but has made it basically every year since. The covid year they were ranked as a top 20 team so they would have been in.

I think he then did not tell the truth about it which was the bigger "crime" but I am sure he was thinking BBQ was smoked meat and sauce vs hot dogs and hamburgers so when he said, no i did not have him over for BBQ was he really lying ?

There was a Rant train starting up last year too then we started to play well and win. Anyone remember when we got going last year?

Sampson was kind of unwilling to change too if you know what i mean.

I would add Scott Drew

Dolson said he was surprised at how much the Woody hiring healed the former player/fan base which makes me think a change would only happen this year if Woody and he found a way to end this without a firing. Would be hard to do for Woody, to essentially give up after trying for many years to get the job, but they could focus on what the hiring did to restore things. Sure a bit of fluff is needed here but if the story was that Woody helped right the ship by: Bridging the RMK past to the future - probably the biggest thing Getting us back to being a regular NCAA tournament team Consistently beating Purdue (though this year will really be tough) Give him permanent courtside seats or something, maybe an ambassador role and try to let him feel like he accomplished a lot in his 3 years.

As I started to type that i wonderd if that might have been why we have not offered here. Then before i finished I started remembering he was offering before visits.

Doesn’t Woody have a thing about not offering a kid unless they make a visit? Probably not but thought there was something like that back when Fife supposedly offered some kid Woody was not ready to

If 2 of Ware, MM or Malik are back I thing a PG is a much bigger need. Sure it would be good to at a top 10 guy but I sure hope we add a strong PG and another shooter as well.

Seems this going to be another double digit loss.

I don't disagree but when you see the WR room, I just want to make sure we have the QB depth needed to make sure we can maximize the WR talent. Hoping we have few injuries and Tayven can make a big leap. Could even see Cherry fill in if needed later in the season if he comes along quickly.

QB is also one of those spots where veteran guys do not go if they are not typically going to start so getting another experienced guy is probably not likely anyway. Hoping this staff is much better at developing QBs.

Yes Rourke, the conference POY, is the proven one, Tayven has not really proven much yet. If Rourke gets injured then we would be relying on unproven guys.

We don’t have a lot of proven depth at QB. Other than that, things are looking very good

Sampson was not supported by the fans. He came in being on probation and had a poor history of player grades.

You can google it too!

Could be a lot of reasons. Maybe he was given a deadline. Maybe he was not in communication with the new staff. Intriguing for sure but too many unknowns for me.

Is he someone we would not want?

Partially agree except the blowout losses to UConn and Auburn were bad losses for me. In the end the committee will likely just see those as losses and if so then you are right. Michigan on the road is really the only good win so hopefully we add more and potentially some great wins.

When KSU went zone that seemed to have been a big turning point. I was at the game and kept telling my daughter they will come out of the zone next time only to be wrong. Were they sticking to that because of foul trouble ?

Were there other recruits at the game besides Liam?

Maybe our offer helps him become more attractive to another school. Our receiver room looks pretty full so maybe getting the offer is all he wanted and Cigs made the late offer to help

Outside of an 8 game stretch at the end of the 21-22 season X has been wildly inconsistent as a scoring threat for us. If we could have seen that performance at the end of his first year carry over to the beginnings of last year or this year there would not be any of that talk. While his offensive game has not been consistent his defense and ball handling have been pretty consistent and would really be helpful right now.

Wasn’t the rumor his mom and aau coach favored IU but dad pushing Maryland?