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For some reason, I thought he was a wing, because he's listed at 6-5, 170 on the Verbal Commits site, but no way is he 170. But he might have been as a sophomore. Not as a junior. Appears to be more of an undersized power forward at 6-6, 225ish. Good hands. Strong rebounder and post moves. Uses both hands well. Not a great leaper or at least hasn't shown it. Doesn't show much of a perimeter game, but apparently can stroke it some. A bit like Charles Thompson maybe without the great length, though looks like has a decent wingspan. Nice outlet pass. https://www.hudl.com/profile/14062630/Tyler-Coleman/videos According to Phenom hoops. Tyler Coleman ’21 – I have to be honest…I didn’t even recognize Coleman initially when I first stepped into the gym. That’s a good thing, however, as it became obvious he’s spent the offseason putting on noticeable muscle mass. The forward already plays physically inside and this added-on strength should make him one of the team’s top frontcourt options now as a junior. Offensive rebounding and patient finishing works the best for him in paint points. One also shouldn’t be surprised to see Coleman step out to beyond the arc for outside shot attempts, as he’s capable of netting a few. Defending on-ball looked like a weaker point of his last year but I’m seeing some progress on that end. He has a year of experience under his belt and more than likely learned a lot under Oduro last season. I can recall Oduro teaching Coleman some specific things back when I made my 2018 visit.

Just to add something. ODU is the only school in C-USA who is not playing football this fall. I think they did look into the AAC with UConn leaving for the Big East. https://odusports.com/news/2020/4/2/minium-conference-usa-is-looking-at-ways-to-save-money-including-schedulig-c.aspx

IDK. My assumption is that everybody is hurt by this pandemic, but they've survived for 30+ years. They'd be only hurt if a few more schools left. My inclination is that everybody is going to be hit hard by this pandemic, so they will try and save as much money as possible. If they can cut non-revenue sports-fine. But they will need to limit travel as much as possible for this year and possibly next season. Staying in a conference that is so spread out is not logical at this point. I don't VCU ever moves, because the A-10 is perfect for them. A basketball-only conference. George Mason has to look themselves in the mirror and wonder if their arena is too big, they are competing with VCU, Georgetown,Maryland, us, George Washington, Howard (now) and American for recruits. Tough to do without Jim Larranaga as head coach.

https://richmond.com/sports/former-jmu-coach-mickey-matthews-its-time-to-bring-back-the-old-caa/article_111ad156-00ac-54fe-a705-3e9807fba78a.html There were rumors, pre-COVID and early-COVID that some of those schools were unhappy with their current situation and in ODU's case, it's understandable. They rushed to join C-USA due to football and now they have their non-revenue teams travelling to UTEP, North Texas, Rice, UAB, UTSA, LA Tech, FAU and FIU. Can only imagine the money they are losing on travel. Was it worth it just to join FBS in football?

My guess is the league was in such bad shape after ODU, VCU, Georgia State and GMU left, they couldn’t get by on their name. Yes, they should have stayed with NBC Sports Washington, but they got a much better deal with Flo Sports. Now if one of those schools return...

https://247sports.com/player/isaiah-perkins-46085585/

It’s official https://twitter.com/bleacherreport/status/1306344180134813696?s=21 https://purdue.rivals.com/news/the-ncaa-issues-plan-for-the-college-basketball-season

https://towsontigers.com/news/2020/9/15/football-towson-alum-smith-returns-to-tennessee-titans-active-roster.aspx

https://caasports.com/news/2020/9/9/-caahoops-summer-school-towson-mens-basketball.aspx

Look, Makhtar Gueye was incredibly intriguing. He is 6-10 and 210 with an ability to run the floor, stretch the defense and protect the rim. But he averaged just 6.8 points and 5.1 rebounds on 28.6% from three and 40.6% overall last season at UAB. He only blocked a 1/2 shot a game. He looked the part and I guess Duke saw something, but I can't imagine he would have played much with them. Maybe help with his length in practice. They are loaded at power forward. If he was a sophomore or a junior, he would have been a very good get. As a senior, if he would have received a waiver, he would have been in this situation right now. Not really being able to practice. Just working out until the NCAA tells them they can practice in some form or fashion. That's the biggest worry of this pretty good collection of players. Zane doesn't know the holdovers. We have two freshmen who probably won't see a lot of time and five transfers who will in Mims, Allen, Holland, Victor and Zane. They need at least a month to practice together. This puts more pressure on Juwan Gray. He obviously had a disappointing junior season averaging just 7ppg, 4.3rpg on 29.t% 3pt shooting and 41% overall before getting injured. He averaged around 22mpg, despite never starting a game. I think you need some experience on the floor, at least at the start of the season. They can still go small with Demetrius Mims at the 4. Either way, you are going to be able to stretch the floor with four perimeter players. You couldn't do that with Dennis Tunstall at the 4 or Sanders, when he played with Charles Thompson. That's assuming that Gray can shoot closer to 35% and get to the rim a little more since he shot 83% from the line (39 of 47). Even if Zane isn't the same player he was two seasons ago, he's certainly a guy who can get to the cup. He could play the 2 or 3. Timberlake is more of a 3 and can help on the boards along with decent D. But assuming Victor and Gray are not big scorers, you need Zane and Holland to be your Fobbs and Betrand, hoping that Gibson gets to double digits playing more off the ball and that Allen can give you 8-9ppg off the bench. He averaged 7.9ppg on 40% 3pg shooting last season for Cal State Bakersfield. That's an upgrade of speed and shooting over Dottin, who I assume will play more of a 2 and 3 this season. You can use him as more of a defensive stopper or if they are down big and want to press. Then you have Solly. What does he give you at 6-7, 235? We really don't know because he played in just two games last season and wasn't inconsistent as a freshman. Maybe playing alongside his brother could bring out the best in him. Needs to improve his face the basket and back to the basket game, but there is something there, if he's healthy. If this was a "normal" season, I'd be getting ready to see practice in 2-3 weeks. Checking out Darrick Jones and Chris Bieku for the first time. Seeing if they could hang with the upperclassmen. Seeing Allen and Holland for the first time. Wondering whether Mims and Victor have put on some weight. Guessing that some form of practice will start at least a month later than normal and probably won't get to watch it in whatever protocol they have.

He didn't transfer to a program that had five senior and junior running backs. He transferred to a place where he could get some reps and get a shot at the NFL. https://www.streakingthelawn.com/football/2020/9/3/21418220/2020-virginia-cavaliers-football-season-preview-quarterback-running-back-wide-receivers

Check the roster on the site

Tye Smith waived by Tennessee. Hopefully he gets picked up by another team or gets placed on the practice squad.

Each sport is supposed to cut 25%

https://towsontigers.com/news/2020/9/1/tiger-athletic-fund-amessage-from-director-of-athletics-tim-leonard.aspx