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Yes, I’m sure it came right down to the wire

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CD is borderline NBA I would think. Alternatively, I would think he’ll play in a high level Euro league. DWill can probably play in Europe if he chooses, though it won’t be in an upper echelon league. What will be interesting is to see where Tejada winds up. Patsos would always say on tv that he had NBA potential. He’s forgotten more about basketball than I know, but I’m highly skeptical he’ll ever sniff the NBA. Of course, if he avgs 31ppg next season, well, check back with me, but that ain’t happening. I hope he doesn’t go somewhere & wind up as a rotation piece next season, but that’s the risk he might face if he goes to a top tier program

That’s a valid point, to the extent each program was eyeing the same guys in the portal. One would think that keeping CD would exhaust most of Hofstra’s war chest, though that’s just speculation on my part

I’d prefer he move on, but the more I think about it the more I come to understand that instead of worrying about what other schools are doing, I need to be focused on what we’re doing, so that’s where I am

We spelled his name wrong. It ends with an “s” not “z.” Put some respect on his name

Gonzalez or Claxton?

Source?

It would be interesting to know if we even recruited him out of HS. His stats at UMBC, at least in terms of ppg, have gone up every year. I’d have to take a closer look in terms of other metrics such as shooting percentage and apg. Will he consider us? I would assume so, but it’s not like he’s going to necessarily give us a “hometown discount,” and nor should he. As you point out, he’s been to the dance and this upcoming season will (presumably) be his last as far as college basketball. So yes, he should be motivated to a large extent to go where he can get the biggest payday, which begs the question of what is his fair market value? He’s played at a low major and put up good, but not necessarily eye popping, numbers. Hopefully that enhances our chances, but in this Wild West known as NIL, who knows?

Maybe he needs a bounce back season before trying to cash out in the 2027 portal? Can we afford him & if so, should we be interested?

Within the bounds of what we can realistically do with the money we have, I say we make this guy a priority. We desperately need a PG and his family ties to TU make this a no-brainer to me

He may be the first guy in the NIL era who pays a school to take him

These captions to these player advertisements are laughable. If you read them, w/out looking at the guy’s stats, you would think they were all the 2nd coming of Michael Jordan And yes, this particular guy has nowhere to go but up.

So, he’s heard from essentially every D1 school in the country. Bravo for him. This is why I’m skeptical about some of these posts. Why, rhetorically speaking, would schools like Gonzaga, K-State, Arizona State and on and on be (seriously) interested in a guy from a low major who avg’d 8ppg? If they are truly interested, god bless them and this young man

Just say NO!!! His meager stats suggest that Samb & Seck are Chamberlain and Abdul-Jabbar compared to this ragamuffin

Agreed. Which is why it’s going to be dicey perhaps for us in the portal. Just seems like the big boys have so much money to spend that they don’t know what to do with it, other than stockpile players that in some cases they don’t really need

I’ve never seen this guy play. TBH, I’ve never even heard of him. So, I could be completely off base, but if a guy like this, who avg’d 7ppg, truly winds up with a P5 school, what is the end game for him and the school? I mean, he might wind up being a 9th or 10th guy in the rotation. How does that benefit him in the long run, after his 1-year salary expires, and how does it help the team, other than having him as an insurance policy in case of injury?

As one of the last guys off the bench, say no more than 5-10 mpg, but my concern was that if he came back he would have been an integral part of the rotation, which would have been a really bad sign

What does “hearing from” really mean? Some 8th assistant coach is following him on X?🤔

I wish him the best. He had a couple of nice games this past season. He could be impactful perhaps at a D2 or at least a rotation piece at a low level D1

You raise an important point. Some of these players are being led down the wrong path by greedy agents who are telling guys who are avg 8-9 ppg that they’ll get big bucks and be big stars if they portal. Now in some cases that will happen, but some of these players are going to be in for a rude awakening when they don’t get what they have been told they’re entitled to and/or they wind up someplace where they get buried on the bench. What I’d like see is a post-portal study showing how many guys either had to retreat to D2 because they overestimated their worth, or even wind up completely out of college basketball.

Obviously I’m not privy to the inside baseball details, but I doubt they could have afforded both. Even if Edmead had returned, it probably would have been for just 1 year. Maybe they decided that if it came down to picking 1 of them for 1 season, it would be CD. I’m just guessing though. If I’m CD, I’m going to at least test the waters, or even think about the NBA. Then again, maybe he has such loyalty to the program that he’s willing to “settle” for like 750K from Hofstra. I admit it’s borders on laughable that any of these players possess even a scintilla of loyalty, but I suppose stranger things have happened

I’m not sure, but I hope he doesn’t. Or if he does that he portals out. Admittedly I’m not a huge fan. Appreciate his efforts but would rather see someone new from the portal rather than another year of Coleman. I already know what he can and can’t do

If we bring him back that tells you we don’t have a lot of NIL money, because I’m sure Coleman would return for peanuts. He had a few good games last season, but there comes a time when you need to move on. If he does return, it’ll be his 6th year. They have a name for guys who go to school that long…they’re called doctors

If you’re Hofstra, do you push all your chips into the middle of the table & offer him your entire NIL pot, knowing that will leave you unable to bring in anyone from the portal. Maybe, if you think you have enough existing depth + a good incoming freshman class. You would think he’d command a million or so on the open market