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Rosario and Luigi or Leal and Goode? Hypothetically we could add all 4.

Looks like we're getting some of his offers at WVU circled back on.

We wouldn't hire N'Dye(sp) to get Thiam? Now that we have a staff, can we start the portal. Everyone that is a proven productive high-major player, decommit and let's start over. Let's start with Rod getting Gillespie, Kenny get Rice and since DD has no issues with tomfoolery hire Thiams mentor and get us a 5. Then we can go down Timberlake, Pagues, Maddox, Lanier street and hope one translates. That's roughly the average, 1/4 of hyped lower d1 players can make the jump. Smh

I wasn't drinking the Dusty kool-aid, but he has been able to assemble what appears to be two rosters off Big Ten talent.

Spend our hs money on Jordan Smith, he can carry team from both sides of the ball. Anthony Thompson is a crummy teammate.

I hope we return all 5 players that have the eligibility to return. I believe in our assistants ability to get the guys. I believe in DD as a closer. Smith would the equivalent of Coach K landing Johnny Dawkins. He would change everything on both sides of the ball.

This roster reflects the staff he had for weeks after the portal opened. If he would've walked in the door with Kenny and Rod immediately after Tennessee was eliminated the roster would reflect their connections. Staff builds rosters. You come in the door stumbling and bumbling, you overpay for alot of players without defensive pedigrees. The roster wasn't a mapped out intentional mix of the "right guys." We are using the Woody approach recruiting, albeit with better recruiters and DD+$$$ should close better. I've always liked the idea of replacing seniors with high school kids and transfers with transfers. That would be alot of hs kids in this case. Either way, I think we're looking at year 3 before we can go into the season with hopes of competing for a bt title. DD has only split 1 regular season conference title so it remains to be seen.

This was a player DD offered at West Virginia.

I like this one. Plays both sides of the ball.

Thompson's head has been overly inflated since his growth spirt. Saw him last year a few times and he's not much of a teamate.

It took 2 weeks for Wade to hire a staff that included a GM from OKCs office and an assistant GM. He brought staff with him from day one. That's how you have to do it. He wasn't working off a coffee table in the players lounge with two guys that weren't bench coaches in their previous stops for over a month. DD might turn out to be a better coach but he's not been so far.

Talent and poor coaching/culture Or What we have. Could we not have landed in the middle?

We would be interesting with him and Claude. We could go 6'5-6'7 all the way around.

Rice ate Zeigler up and we locked Lanier down. That was after both teams had been playing pick-up predominantly and had not been "coached" up. Then we started getting coached. Mgbako has been tearing it up in the scrimmages during the process, on both ends. The groovy OG of coaching approach, treating kids like 30 yo's wasn't a culture builder. Rice under DeVries would've thrived and a Ware or Ballo would have me pretty excited.

Are you talking about the guitar player from Pantera?