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- Yesterday
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With Tarke off the board, the options are really dwindling
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This one has been kept quiet. I still haven’t heard anything about what happened.
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Good size, but not a great athlete though. Not sure he's quick enough for a D1 wing. Looks like he needed a year in the weight room and then could play both forward spots. Not a great three-point shooter (31%). Not sure how he gets his shot off at the next level. Now the Guillory kid is a ridiculous athlete, but irrelevant as a 3-point shooter (5 of 35). The better options are dwindling. I know watching 2-3 minute highlight packages don't show everything, but you get a glimpse of what type of player we may be looking at.
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Let's update this with those wing targets who are available that we might be interested in (following on Twitter, or are listed in Transfer Portal sites). Blakney was supposed to commit soon. Not including point guards or post players or D2/Juco: Nendah Tarke (Coppin State) 6-4, 205 Austin Williams (FIU/Hartford), 6-4, 200 Kam Woods (NC A&T), 6-2, 185 (point guard who shoots a lot, not likely interested) Jovan Stulic (Arkansas Little Rock) – 6-6, 215 – played four games in 2022-23. 7.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 51.4% (76-148) FG, 43.8% (42-96) 3pt FG in 2021-22 Stephon Payne III (Incarnate Word) – 6-9, 210 – 6.0 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 1.3 blpg, 1.0 spg, 49.3% (68-138) FG (Jacksonville commit) Dee Barnes (Southern Utah) – 6-4, 193 – 6.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 50% (82-164) FG, 43.8% (39-89) 3pt FG Marko Maletic (Long Island) – 6-6, 208 – 15.9 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 43.2% (136-315) FG, 38.8% (69-138) 3pt FG 23-48 (Asst-TO) Marcus Watson (NC A&T) – 6-6, 235 – 14.2 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 41.5% (165-398), 28.4% (44-155) 3pt FG, 60-100 (Asst-TO) R.J. Blakney (Dayton) 6-6, 195 – 6.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 44.0% (62-141), 24.2% (16-66) 3pt FG, 36-35 (Asst-TO) De'Sean Allen-Eikens (CSNU) 6-6, 215 – 11.1 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 40-55 Asst-TO, 45.4% FG, 31.5% (23-73) 3pt FG (committed to Cal State Northridge) Pavo Pavlidis (Hartford) 6-8, 220 – 8.0 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 56.9% (95-167), 8-33 3pt FG, 1.3 blpg (committed to Stonehill)
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Had him this season. Kid can play.
- Last week
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https://athletics.dyc.edu/sports/mbkb/2022-23/bios/kondrat_willie_bp6a
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I think I’ve cracked the code. “Received interest from” = being followed on twitter, as 1 of our assistant coaches follows this guy. Without more (and I don’t know if there’s more in this guy’s case or not) I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say a school is “interested” in you, at least in any meaningful sense. But I get it. We all want to feel wanted (except if it’s “wanted by the law” 😆). This young man seems to be another in a seemingly endless line of guys whose addition to our team would make little, if any, sense. Btw, I didn’t know Southern New Hampshire U actually has sports teams. I thought they were just an online diploma mill. Go figure.
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https://snhupenmen.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/evan-guillory/5312
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Not at all........Give a new coach a shot with some additional funds. We have done that with Skerry and he has failed. We should not keep throwing good money after bad with a coach that has won nothing. If Steve, and his judgement looks outstanding, believes in a new coach, give him your support and funds with the chance to prove himself. If he fails, the spigot is turned off.
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So if a new coach comes in, he shouldn’t ask for more money because he hadn’t won anything? I don’t have factual evidence about what’s going on in the new collective, but while we may never be Charleston in terms of the amount, I think there is potential to have a little something in the near future from what I’ve heard.
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I don’t think a President should have any influence or at least the final say on selecting, extending or firing any coach. That’s why you hire Steve, though he won’t be the new president’s hire. It will be important for him to cultivate a relationship so he can be left alone in making those decisions. Most presidents understand that there’s more to a revenue coach being successful other than graduating players. Why was Ambrose fired? Aside from mediocre results as of late, the attendance was not good. The energy for the program from the fanbase had slipped.
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If you had won something, then perhaps you could ask for more.....but continually asking for more and coming up short of expectations and blaming it on not getting enough has gotten old. I know that we cant do anything about it with this absurd contract, which by the way, I don't blame Skerry for taking.....but if Towson cant afford to buy out a contract....that should tell everyone where we are financially and likely where we will continually be. We seem to be just another mid major with lots of hope and no money to back it up.
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I agree with much of your post. I would, however, still like to make the case for money going to Olympic sports. The department, as is tru e of most D1 schools, is happy to include their GPAs in noting the high GPA of the athletic department. They hare happy to post thier championships, but they are incredibly short on funds. When these S/As graduate, they are grateful for their college athletic days. While this is an opinion, with no scientific data to back it up, I would say they are more appreciative of what they do receive, minimal as it might be, then the revenue sports whose athetes frequently expect rather than appreciate.
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In three years and if Sherry is not here, the new coach is going to ask for the same thing. We need more NIL money to keep up with the Joneses.When you lose out on recruits and transfers due to NIL, what else would you do? Every coach asks for more money from donors, going well before NIL. I don’t think he’s mentioned it on the record much, if at all because it’s not really part of the athletic department.
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I share your frustration with Skerry’s inability thus far to have grabbed the brass ring. I think most, if not all of us, would agree that the decision to give him that lengthy contract extension was a huge mistake. Unfortunately, we’re saddled with it. That extension is an albatross around our necks and is the gift that keeps on giving. Would love to know why Tim Leonard agreed to it in the first place. Maybe a 2-3 year extension, but 8 years????? Well, I’d like to think we’re approaching a crossroads, where if the postseason futility continues that we move on. My concern though is that whoever the new University President is will stick with him, because he graduates kids and wins just enough games to look good on paper. Time will tell, but I’ve run out of patience.
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noted....sorry If I gave misinformation. However, when Skerry says he needs more.....he had enough to win a regular season 1st place finish. He is a perfect example of having enough, but when the team does not even get to a championship game in march, blame it on not having enough. Perhaps I am overly negative regarding the basketball program, but I think I am just being truthful as to what the team has failed to accomplish.
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When I set up my donation through the GOH collective, I was specifically prompted to select which sport I wished my donation to go to. Donors can thus specify which sport they wish to direct their money. Everyone can make their own decision. As for me, I want Skerry to be able to compete for players in the portal. If he somehow manages to defy past history and get us to the dance, then great. If not, I hope he’ll be gone when his contract expires, which I think is after the 2025-2026 season (disclaimer: I think that’s when his contract expires, but I’m not 100% certain of that).
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Each person makes their own decision as to where they want their donation to go. If it goes to NIL or event the Tiger Athletic Fund, the money goes to "whoever needs it most". Your donation is put in someone else's hands. You may be okay with that. I think that the donations should go to a specific sport. With full knowledge that the Olympic sports have very little relevance in regard to the finances of the department, as well as the folks that follow the Towson program on this site......those student athletes work just as hard, spends just as much time and are as deserving as the revenue sports. The only way they will get above and beyond their minimal budgets is for folks to donate specifically to the program. Instead, we keep on talking and raising money for a basketball program who has failed us year after year for a dozen years under a coach whose extensions to his contract are absurd. The "non-revenue" sports have brought championships, pride and honor the Towson Athletics. Perhaps they should get some of the money as well. Think about where you really want your money to go.
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Hip issues
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We should probably switch this over to the football thread, but I’m hoping we get some announcements about FBS transfers in the near future
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Dude used to stomp the floor a ton early on. Like hard. That and his language that would not be tolerated in the year 2023 were Gus go to moves. Yeah yeah yeah. Good news for this year, his record won’t count against him!
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Did he know something about the 2023 season that we don’t?!?
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That’s from being kicked so many times by 2012. I kid, because I love 😆
