Any new transfers?
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:18 am
Perhaps Fort Lewis has more talent for us to nab? The Catholic College in Lander surely has someone who has played basketball? The Frontier School of the Bible in LaGrange?
Literally a repeat of last year (just less sought after 1 year players).
Just what we need. More guys who couldn’t hit sand if they fell off a camel. This program is in a death spiral.OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:58 pm Ihenacho shot 28 percent from 3 on the year this past year in the Summit League. Who isn’t excited?
Are you forgetting about that guy at Northeastern Montana State Normal Indian Teachers College? Sure, he played at a Division IV school and only he's only 5'2", but he's very fast.
While Kot and Griffin had their limitations, Kot (37.3%) and Griffin (39%) could shoot the 3. They kept us semi-competitive in several games and were largely the reason we won the games we did.SDPokeFan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:36 pmJust what we need. More guys who couldn’t hit sand if they fell off a camel. This program is in a death spiral.OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:58 pm Ihenacho shot 28 percent from 3 on the year this past year in the Summit League. Who isn’t excited?
Matija Belic, guard UC-Santa Barbara commits. He is a career 25% 3 point shooter. He averaged 3 points a game last year in his limited action.SDPokeFan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:36 pmJust what we need. More guys who couldn’t hit sand if they fell off a camel. This program is in a death spiral.OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:58 pm Ihenacho shot 28 percent from 3 on the year this past year in the Summit League. Who isn’t excited?
Poke fans, we are in deep, deep trouble. We are going to be cannon fodder in the MoWest next year. We are getting the cast offs' cast offs. Linder told us what his formula for players was when he got here - and folks like Mr. Belic don't come close to fitting that mold. Napoleon is desperate. These are warm bodies - nothing more, nothing less.OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:58 amMatija Belic, guard UC-Santa Barbara commits. He is a career 25% 3 point shooter. He averaged 3 points a game last year in his limited action.
Do you think anyone here does not support the playersWYO1016 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:49 am It's pretty clear that the posters that were the loudest about disliking Linder's actions in games and press conferences are the ones that are throwing the biggest temper tantrums on his signings. We get it. You don't like him. How about we support the new players instead of whining about their stats on paper?
I support any player that dons the brown and gold so long as they play the game with guts and grit, go to class, and are upstanding citizens.WYO1016 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:49 am It's pretty clear that the posters that were the loudest about disliking Linder's actions in games and press conferences are the ones that are throwing the biggest temper tantrums on his signings. We get it. You don't like him. How about we support the new players instead of whining about their stats on paper?
Well stated.LawPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:47 amI support any player that dons the brown and gold so long as they play the game with guts and grit, go to class, and are upstanding citizens.WYO1016 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:49 am It's pretty clear that the posters that were the loudest about disliking Linder's actions in games and press conferences are the ones that are throwing the biggest temper tantrums on his signings. We get it. You don't like him. How about we support the new players instead of whining about their stats on paper?
I will criticize any member of the current athletic department staff who gets paid handsomely and runs a once proud program into the ground, pouts like a child, screams at his players nonstop, and demands unconditional support (financial and otherwise) from the fanbase when he doesn't put a product on the court that can truly compete and thus warrant our unquestioning and unwavering support.
I can do both things at the same time. I see criticism of the TYPE of player Jeff is bringing in as being criticism of him and his program. I will cheer for them - but I don't have to pretend that these signees are the next coming of Fennis Dembo and reflective of the type of talent we need to compete for MW championships. Linder can't attract talent and so we are stuck signing kids that have no business playing for any MW team. Sometimes a stat line lies - but I'm guessing none of these kids move the needle in a positive direction. I hope I'm wrong - but I don't think I am. And neither does anyone else...if they are being honest.
I have never seen such an uninspiring group of recruits. Is the strategy to get players who are so bad no one else could possibly want them so we don’t have to deal with them entering the portal?OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:58 amMatija Belic, guard UC-Santa Barbara commits. He is a career 25% 3 point shooter. He averaged 3 points a game last year in his limited action.
Belic has 2 years of eligibility remaining. The other transfers are seniors and have only 1 year left so they couldn’t enter the portal again.SDPokeFan wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:41 pmI have never seen such an uninspiring group of recruits. Is the strategy to get players who are so bad no one else could possibly want them so we don’t have to deal with them entering the portal?OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:58 am
Matija Belic, guard UC-Santa Barbara commits. He is a career 25% 3 point shooter. He averaged 3 points a game last year in his limited action.
Does Linder have so much confidence in his high school recruits that he doesn't think he needs as much from the porthole? Absent that being the case, it seems that we don't have the program or money to attract big-time or mid-tier players and this is what we are left with to move forward. 1-2 year guys that are from lower-tier conferences with no other offers or opportunities left.SDPokeFan wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:41 pmI have never seen such an uninspiring group of recruits. Is the strategy to get players who are so bad no one else could possibly want them so we don’t have to deal with them entering the portal?OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:58 am
Matija Belic, guard UC-Santa Barbara commits. He is a career 25% 3 point shooter. He averaged 3 points a game last year in his limited action.
Other coaches turn around dumpster fires in a year or two. Linder has poured gas on his conflagration.bladerunnr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:18 pm Linder inherited a real dumpster fire. With the exception of Shyatt's first few seasons, this program has been a complete mess for nearly 20 years. We don't have any NIL to draw transfers here. So, we aren't likely to get another Justin Williams walking through the door.
I'm sympathetic to the Linder haters, to some degree. Frankly, I think he did an amazing job this year to get 8 conference wins out of this group. But this notion that some other coach with a bright and sunny disposition is going to recruit the next Brandon Ewing is wishful thinking.
Wyoming is going to have to join the NIL bandwagon real fast. Even if Linder is not the future, no quality coach is going to come here with the limited resources we offer.
Good post - my questions...bladerunnr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:18 pm Linder inherited a real dumpster fire. With the exception of Shyatt's first few seasons, this program has been a complete mess for nearly 20 years. We don't have any NIL to draw transfers here. So, we aren't likely to get another Justin Williams walking through the door.
I'm sympathetic to the Linder haters, to some degree. Frankly, I think he did an amazing job this year to get 8 conference wins out of this group. But this notion that some other coach with a bright and sunny disposition is going to recruit the next Brandon Ewing is wishful thinking.
Wyoming is going to have to join the NIL bandwagon real fast. Even if Linder is not the future, no quality coach is going to come here with the limited resources we offer.
Most of the information out there is purely anecdotal. So it’s hard to say. Boise State appears to be throwing by far the most money toward athletes in the MWC. Wyoming definitely appears in the lower end of the MWC.McPeachy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:48 amGood post - my questions...bladerunnr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:18 pm Linder inherited a real dumpster fire. With the exception of Shyatt's first few seasons, this program has been a complete mess for nearly 20 years. We don't have any NIL to draw transfers here. So, we aren't likely to get another Justin Williams walking through the door.
I'm sympathetic to the Linder haters, to some degree. Frankly, I think he did an amazing job this year to get 8 conference wins out of this group. But this notion that some other coach with a bright and sunny disposition is going to recruit the next Brandon Ewing is wishful thinking.
Wyoming is going to have to join the NIL bandwagon real fast. Even if Linder is not the future, no quality coach is going to come here with the limited resources we offer.
How many D1 basketball programs have an NIL that is "higher / better" than Wyoming (or exists even at a better level)? 100 of 351? 200 of 351? Secondly, how much NIL money are the other MWC schools paying out annually toward their athletes?