1. What would you define as a bigger program? Power 6? If so, none of what we got is that caliber. Heck, I was surprised that Timberlake got the attention he got and now that he's on a big-name team, the rest of the nation is seeing what limitations we had known he had for his career. But if you're talking about a player going from here to an A-10 team or a AAC or goes out west to the Valley or MW/WCC, I think May and Tejada certainly would qualify and I bet certain coaches could get a lot out of DW, Lowery, and maybe even Cole. I've said it once or twice in the chats the last few games that the backslide of Charles around the bucket as well as our softness around the rim plus the pathetic free throw shooting is a direct indictment of how we develop players. How does someone like Messiah Jones, who shot 57% last year at Wofford comes here and often looks lost on the offensive end? But if you get a certain mindset about being in the lane and around the rim and you learn to finish through contact, we don't have the pathetic numbers on layups that we do. If you look at our roster and think back to the beginning of the season, who has gotten significantly better from Colorado to today? I'm not sure if we can answer anyone confidently.
2. No chance. When a player is in the portal, I wonder how much his 'team' looks at the below-the-surface stats like pace, etc and not just look at 'oh, they lost this guy, this guy, and this guy, so you can step right in and be the big dog'. Do they take into account that we haven't been to a conference championship game in over 30 years? How much of that do they even prioritize? Are they more about winning or more about themselves and getting noticed for their future? It would be interesting to hear what the selling points were to bring in the transfers that we have in the past.