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I could be mistaken, but between players who exhausted their eligibility and players who portaled, only 1 of the players who made 1st, 2nd or 3rd team all-CAA last season will be back in the conference next season (the UNCW big, I think his name is Wessler). Last year, I think the only 2 players from 1st, 2nd, 3rd teams who returned were Tejada and DWill

Let’s face it, we need intervention from the NCAA and/or the legislative & executive branches, but I’m skeptical that’s going to happen. Even if it does, I’m skeptical any such changes will survive judicial review. well, enough for the refresher course on the 3 branches of government. As you correctly point out, we’ve been incapable of making it to the dance even before free agency. Now, we have essentially no chance

At the risk of stating the obvious, do we all realize that as currently configured we will have 8 players next season who have never played 1 second of D1? 4 true freshmen; 2 RS freshmen; 1 JUCO (who was originally at a D1 but never played); and 1 D2. And this number could grow to 9 or 10, depending on what we do with the last two openings. It’s an incredibly huge ask to expect us to be even mediocre next year unless several of these 8 guys absolutely pop (and I don’t mean avg 6-8ppg); Womack makes a big freshman to sophomore leap; and the two as yet to be filled roster spots go to legitimate stat stuffers in terms of scoring. Thats a whole lot of things that need to go right, with very little margin for error

It’s not so much comparing him to a guy from a decade ago, it’s my concern that this might be the latest in a 15 year string of swing and misses at the PG position. I don’t care how good the competition he played against in JUCO was. He’ll be playing against better players with us. Numbers don’t lie; he was a mediocre 3-point shooter last season. Does that mean he’ll be similarly mediocre next season? No, of course not. Past results are not always indicative of future success, but it’s discouraging (at least to me) that knowing our woeful 3-point shooting last season, that we bring in a guy who missed 2 out of every 3 three point shots he took. It’s almost as if Skerry is tone deaf & is bound & determined to show he doesn’t need good 3-point shooters to win, which of course is nonsense

Um, well, you see, it’s like this, wait a second, hold on, hmm, lemme get back to you on that

Agreed, and 1 of those guys, despite what we all hope (pray) is his potential, has never played 1 second of college basketball. Unless the last two signings are off the charts (and why would they be) we could be staring down the barrel of a 10 win season next season. I guess we have to hope that most of the other conference teams will be as crappy as us, seeing as every school will practically have a new roster, but if that’s our goal, it’s a sad commentary (and also not likely to be the case in any event)

I half jokingly suggested to someone recently that we save our pennies for next offseason. Now, maybe it’s more than half jokingly. This was such a pivotal offseason; we (mistakenly) thought we finally had some real money to spend, only to find out it’s Confederate money. Beyond that though, to your point, I simply don’t trust this staff to bring in even 1 quality shooter. As I stated in an earlier, I guarantee you that other teams in our conference not named C of C or UNCW will unearth better scorers than us, with less $ to spend

And what was the urgency to sign this guy? He had offers from who, Canisius, Georgia State, Southern Indiana (ok, & Southern Miss too). I mean, those are our competitors??? Why not wait and at least try and find a D1 guy, after the initial signing frenzy dies down a bit?

I’m just fed up (obviously). The game is essentially ruined for the TU’s of the world. If I were university president I’d say not 1 more dime for this nonsense. I’d rather build a new wing on an academic building. Whats going to be interesting is how our dumpster diving signings measure up at the end of next season to those of the other orphans in our conference. Wanna bet that some of the other schools will wind up having more productive players, with less $ than we had?🤔

BAT, what do you think of this guy’s JUCO stats? He avg’d the same ppg as Doerr; shot the same from 3; more assists per game. Admittedly a lower overall shooting percentage. His name…Brian Starr

I did neglect to mention the “bright” sides: (1) we will not have to be burdened with the expectations of being picked in the preseason to win the regular season conference championship; (2) our games vs Wilson College and the Little Sisters of the Poor will be a smidge more competitive. The more I think about it, the more it makes me aggravated. He F’ing signed a guy who shot 33% from 3 in JUCO, despite knowing we were the worst 3-point shooting team in the country. He just doesn’t get it. Complete rubbish

I think Mercer has it right. And I assume more programs will come to their senses and follow suit

So class, it’s midterm time, as we’ve filled 2 of our 4 open roster spots. And what have we to show so far? (1) A skinny D2 big; and (2) a JUCO who shot 33% from 3, and couldn’t get on the floor in his 1 season with mighty Morehead State (isn’t that where Phil Simms went?) I’ll accept that we had a million or so, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious whatever we have isn’t enough (at least yet) to even sign a mediocre D1 player. If this is our best, our best isn’t good enough. Maybe it’s time to have a come to Jesus discussion about the viability of the basketball program at this level. And, excoriate me if you will, but if we’re bound & determined to stay the course, maybe there needs to be a discussion about whether we should keep the football program, or try and be C of C, UNCW, Hofstra, VCU (and the list of schools with basketball programs but no football program goes on & on & on). And btw, where do you think most of our NIL is coming from? I highly doubt it’s from our apathetic alumni. No, most of it is probably coming directly from the university itself. And how long do you think the university is going to continue throwing good money after bad? Especially in a couple of years when we’ll possibly have a new university president (Ginsburg is no spring chicken folks). It’s time to have some real, frank discussions about the viability of the basketball program, where apparently it takes half a million dollars, if not more, to buy a D1 player who avg’d 5ppg. Who needs this crap?

I think the real question now is will we even sign 1 D1 player?

We may have more $ than last year, but salaries (I mean, that’s what they are) have gone up exponentially, such that more $ this year may translate to less buying power (NIL inflation) than last year