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RickinDayton

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Each of these players are Top 50 portal entries.

Jameel Nelson, Jr, from Delaware, PG

Ace Baldwin, A10 player of the year from VCU

Khaliff Battle, SG from Temple

Nicholas Timberlake, SG from Towson

Jordan Minor, Center from Merrinack

Isaac Traudt, PF from Virginia (redshirted this year)

Hakim Hart, SF from Maryland

Chris Ledlum, PF from Harvard

Reinstall Mast, Center from Bradley

B.J.Mack, Center from Wofford
 
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I'd add the following:

Kanye Clary, from PSU

Evan Mahaffey, from PSU (athletic and a great fit for PSU's new style)

Kebba Njie, from PSU

Jalen DeLoach (soph 6'9" forward), from VCU

Jamir Watkins (soph 6'7" forward), from VCU

Coach Rhoades does not have to look far to form a good nucleus for the 2023/24 team and beyond.
 
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GregInPitt said:
I'd add the following:

Kanye Clary, from PSU

Evan Mahaffey, from PSU (athletic and a great fit for PSU's new style)

Kebba Njie, from PSU

Jalen DeLoach (soph 6'9" forward), from VCU

Jamir Watkins (soph 6'7" forward), from VCU

Coach Rhoades does not have to look far to form a good nucleus for the 2023/24 team and beyond.
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Imagine a Penn State team that is formidable in Bigs as well as guards?
 
GregInPitt said:
I'd add the following:

Kanye Clary, from PSU

Evan Mahaffey, from PSU (athletic and a great fit for PSU's new style)

Kebba Njie, from PSU

Jalen DeLoach (soph 6'9" forward), from VCU

Jamir Watkins (soph 6'7" forward), from VCU

Coach Rhoades does not have to look far to form a good nucleus for the 2023/24 team and beyond.
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Greg, I agree with the names you posted. My post was focusing outside VCU & PSU. We definitely need the Freshman to stay and if we can get the 3 VCU players that is a very good foundation. Long shot, but Coach Rhoades and Crispin might be able to convince Booth to stay committed to PSU. This would allow the staff to fill out th roster with portal players. We shall see.
 
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We need to find us a couple of Funk's. The ability to hit the three can help a team that might not be so deep stay in games.

I really hope he gives Crispin the reigns the be the OC while employing the same defense he had at VCU.

3 and D baby. 40 minutes of Hell mixed with a 3 point line and the memory of Hank Gathers.
 
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We need to find us a couple of Funk's. The ability to hit the three can help a team that might not be so deep stay in games.

I really hope he gives Crispin the reigns the be the OC while employing the same defense he had at VCU.

3 and D baby. 40 minutes of Hell mixed with a 3 point line and the memory of Hank Gathers.
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Just get Crispin back out there, he can shoot the 3s. Maybe he can talk to Chad Powers to see how this is done?
 
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RickinDayton said:
Greg, I agree with the names you posted. My post was focusing outside VCU & PSU. We definitely need the Freshman to stay and if we can get the 3 VCU players that is a very good foundation. Long shot, but Coach Rhoades and Crispin might be able to convince Booth to stay committed to PSU. This would allow the staff to fill out th roster with portal players. We shall see.
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I believe I heard that Crispin is filling a newly allowed by the NCAA additional assistant coach position that was descibed as an assistant that could not recruit off campus.

I found that strange in that Rhoades could use the help of Crispin in possibly going to the Booth home to speak with Carey and his parents. Should not be long before this begins to shake out.
 
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I believe I heard that Crispin is filling a newly allowed by the NCAA additional assistant coach position that was descibed as an assistant that could not recruit off campus.
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Interesting...I hadn't read about that yet and was assuming that Joe wouldn't be able to take part in on-court coaching.

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NCAA Division I Council modernizes rules for coaching limits

The Division I Council took steps to modernize a number of rules Wednesday, including approving adjustments to transfer waiver guidelines, modifying personnel rules across several sports and formally eliminating the requirement for standardized test scores in initial eligibility. The Council met...
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Hunter Dickinson from Michigan just went in portal. We have his this year and we may be playing this weekend.
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That would be HUGE to get Dickinson. Keep Booth, get the best of the VCU team this year with eligibility and a couple other diamonds in the rough from smaller, under the radar programs. We do need to keep as much as we can. Any chance to sway Mahaffey back? Would love to keep Clary and Njie.

Love a style of suffocating D, 3pt sharp shooters and athletic bigs who can also stroke it.
 
ryoder1 said:
That would be HUGE to get Dickinson. Keep Booth, get the best of the VCU team this year with eligibility and a couple other diamonds in the rough from smaller, under the radar programs. We do need to keep as much as we can. Any chance to sway Mahaffey back? Would love to keep Clary and Njie.

Love a style of suffocating D, 3pt sharp shooters and athletic bigs who can also stroke it.
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WOW, i wouldn't even know what to say if that were to happen. I might drive to South Bend myself and thank Shrews for leaving!!!

Could you imagine:

PG: Bladwin Jr
SG: Nunn
SF: Mahaffey
PF: Booth
C: Dickinson

Now cue the people that think I am serious that will tell me that will never happen. Before you do, I realize that. I was playing a game of what if.
 
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WOW, i wouldn't even know what to say if that were to happen. I might drive to South Bend myself and thank Shrews for leaving!!!

Could you imagine:

PG: Bladwin Jr
SG: Nunn
SF: Mahaffey
PF: Booth
C: Dickinson

Now cue the people that think I am serious that will tell me that will never happen. Before you do, I realize that. I was playing a game of what if.
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If we’re dreaming, at least include Caleb Love in it…
 
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RickinDayton said:
Long shot, but Coach Rhoades and Crispin might be able to convince Booth to stay committed to PSU.
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Long shot is right. I'll be VERY surprised if Booth doesn't follow Shrews to ND. He's not a center. He's a stretch 4 and Shrews O will definitely know how to use and develop him for the NBA. I know Crispin is the new OC, but he's not going to anywhere near as good as Shrews.
 
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Long shot is right. I'll be VERY surprised if Booth doesn't follow Shrews to ND. He's not a center. He's a stretch 4 and Shrews O will definitely know how to use and develop him for the NBA. I know Crispin is the new OC, but he's not going to anywhere near as good as Shrews.
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i would be surprised if he ends up at either school (PSU or ND)
 
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He's one of the most inefficient college players that I can remember watching in the last 10 years.
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He's forced to take on a pretty big load in their offense.

He scored 28 against Duke in the Final 4, 30 against UCLA in the tourney, etc. We're gonna really need someone like that next year that is a high volume guys with all of these new/young pieces.
 
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Maybe Kareem has a year of eligibility left some how.....

The expectations seem to be that Rhoades can put a final four team together in the next week or so.

But since it took a number of coaches and over 10 years between NCAA tourney appearances for PSU basketball, I believe I'll give Rhoades a little more time to put his stamp on the PSU BB program..........
 
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Maybe Kareem has a year of eligibility left some how.....

The expectations seem to be that Rhoades can put a final four team together in the next week or so.

But since it took a number of coaches and over 10 years between NCAA tourney appearances for PSU basketball, I believe I'll give Rhoades a little more time to put his stamp on the PSU BB program..........
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I agree he needs some time to build his program....but I also believe he can't come out of the gate getting destroyed.
 
Texas Lion said:
I agree he needs some time to build his program....but I also believe he can't come out of the gate getting destroyed.
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Yep, but Shrew's first year PSU finished 14-17. And that after getting some key pieces of the previous roster to stay.

And PSU was 14-11 at one point this past season, and then a hot streak made Shrew the next Bobby Knight.

Both Shrew and Rhoades took over pretty empty rosters, which new P5 coaches seem to always inherit within the new transfer rules. I have no expectation of Coach Rhoades having faster success than what Shrew was able to accomplish, with Shrew really hitting the jackpot with a couple incoming transfers that played above their weight class within Shrew's game plans.

It's great that PSU fans have more reason to expect some success going forward, as we've seen a pretty quick turn around happen so recently. But it takes a good many pieces to fall into place, and I'm just going to follow that process and try to have reasonable expectations as Coach Rhoades goes about his business......
 
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Maybe Kareem has a year of eligibility left some how.....

The expectations seem to be that Rhoades can put a final four team together in the next week or so.

But since it took a number of coaches and over 10 years between NCAA tourney appearances for PSU basketball, I believe I'll give Rhoades a little more time to put his stamp on the PSU BB program..........
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That is not my expectation, but I would like to see him put a team n the court that can go .500 in the B1G and do better OOC. It is possible if the Freshman stay put and he brings in some key portal players.

I think the portal needs are:
-All around Guard like Ace Baldwi
-A two guard that can create his shot opportunities
-A proven Center hat can rebound & defend in the 6'8 to 6'10" size range
-A Small Forward that can drive and has good outside range
-A Power Forward who likes to do the "dirty work" inside

They are out there and they don't have to come from high major programs.
 
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RickinDayton said:
That is not my expectation, but I would like to see him put a team n the court that can go .500 in the B1G and do better OOC. It is possible if the Freshman stay put and he brings in some key portal players.

I think the portal needs are:
-All around Guard like Ace Baldwi
-A two guard that can create his shot opportunities
-A proven Center hat can rebound & defend in the 6'8 to 6'10" size range
-A Small Forward that can drive and has good outside range
-A Power Forward who likes to do the "dirty work" inside

They are out there and they don't have to come from high major programs.
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Yep, lots of portal needs. And Rhoades knows what he needs. But I'm going to remember that he is still recruiting for The Pennsylvania State University. Not NCAA expectant participants like UK, Duke, UNC, UVA, IU, UI, OSU, Purdue, UCLA, UA, UT, UK...... who in the eyes of most every recruit/transfer outshine the opportunity for exposure versus PSU BB.

If Coach Rhoades' initial teams some how exceed the accomplishments of the last two seasons I'll be estatic.
 
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That is not my expectation, but I would like to see him put a team n the court that can go .500 in the B1G and do better OOC. It is possible if the Freshman stay put and he brings in some key portal players.

I think the portal needs are:
-All around Guard like Ace Baldwi
-A two guard that can create his shot opportunities
-A proven Center hat can rebound & defend in the 6'8 to 6'10" size range
-A Small Forward that can drive and has good outside range
-A Power Forward who likes to do the "dirty work" inside

They are out there and they don't have to come from high major programs.
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They are out there and EVERYONE wants them. There are 10 4* 300lb DTs out there too split between EVERYONE. UGA and Bama will each get two. Clemson will get one. OSU will probably get one. That leaves 4 for the rest of the country.
 
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Yep, but Shrew's first year PSU finished 14-17. And that after getting some key pieces of the previous roster to stay.

And PSU was 14-11 at one point this past season, and then a hot streak made Shrew the next Bobby Knight.

Both Shrew and Rhoades took over pretty empty rosters, which new P5 coaches seem to always inherit within the new transfer rules. I have no expectation of Coach Rhoades having faster success than what Shrew was able to accomplish, with Shrew really hitting the jackpot with a couple incoming transfers that played above their weight class withing Shrew's game plans.

It's great that PSU fans have more reason to expect some success going forward, as we've seen a pretty quick turn around happen so recently. But it takes a good many pieces to fall into place, and I'm just going to follow that process and try to have reasonable expectations as Coach Rhoades goes about his business......
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Shrewsberry arguably got a big job for doing not that much. He is now paid more than almost any coach in the B1G and his best season (out of 2) was one where PSU was 10th place in the B1G

just the way college sports work, I guess.
 
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They are out there and EVERYONE wants them. There are 10 4* 300lb DTs out there too split between EVERYONE. UGA and Bama will each get two. Clemson will get one. OSU will probably get one. That leaves 4 for the rest of the country.
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True. I'm sure Rhoades will work hard to put together a credible team for his first year. I think there are plenty of players in the portal that would not be needed by UNC, Duke, UCONN, UK, Kansas. Etc
 
GregInPitt said:
Yep, but Shrew's first year PSU finished 14-17. And that after getting some key pieces of the previous roster to stay.

And PSU was 14-11 at one point this past season, and then a hot streak made Shrew the next Bobby Knight.

Both Shrew and Rhoades took over pretty empty rosters, which new P5 coaches seem to always inherit within the new transfer rules. I have no expectation of Coach Rhoades having faster success than what Shrew was able to accomplish, with Shrew really hitting the jackpot with a couple incoming transfers that played above their weight class within Shrew's game plans.

It's great that PSU fans have more reason to expect some success going forward, as we've seen a pretty quick turn around happen so recently. But it takes a good many pieces to fall into place, and I'm just going to follow that process and try to have reasonable expectations as Coach Rhoades goes about his business......
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And PSU should not have been 14-11. They had too much talent for that.
 
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That's what the fans of every 14-11 team say.

Yep, you should have coached PSU's first 25 games and PSU would have won more games.

ND didn't seem to ding their opinion of Shrew for his 2023 performance. Did you apply there?
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Where the hell did that come from? I was agreeing with you. Good lord.
 
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Where the hell did that come from? I was agreeing with you. Good lord.
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My apologies. I had back surgery on Thursday and I'm still a little grouchy......

It just sounded like some of the second guessing and crying here, as if Shrew underachieved. Probably should have just asked you why you believe PSU had too much talent to be 14-11.

I don't believe Shrew had a juggernaut of talent this past season, but instead did a good job of getting the young talent some experience where later in the season that experience allowed players like Cleary, Njie and Mahaffey to make contributions to the wins down the stretch of the season. Good coaches use the OOC games to develop their teams which can cost a few wins, but it seems that Shrew's investment in the young players did pay dividends later. The other issue is that when teams take lots of transfers even though the transfers are experienced players they have to learn to play together and adjust to their roles which also puts them at a disadvatage to teams with a bigger returning core early in the season.

My comment about Shrew's first year was that as good of a coach as most believe him to be along with transfer rules he still couldn't field a .500 team or a .500 B10 game record his first season. So with Rhoades starting over as well why should PSU fans expect better from him.
 
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I thought that in the end, we were pretty fortunate to have the season that we had. We underperformed a bit in the first 2/3s of the season, then overperformed late. And we had extremely good luck with our health on the season.

We just had too big of a hole at the 5 that teams with a good big really exploited.
 
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Looks like VCU’s Deloach is getting some strong interest. PSU is in his final six, but it feels like it’s a pretty competitive situation.


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VCU transfer Jalen Deloach breaks down his final six schools

VCU transfer Jalen Deloach is down to six schools. Deloach enters the transfer portal after former VCU head coach Mike Rhoades left the program for the head coaching position
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Looks like VCU’s Deloach is getting some strong interest. PSU is in his final six, but it feels like it’s a pretty competitive situation.


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VCU transfer Jalen Deloach breaks down his final six schools

VCU transfer Jalen Deloach is down to six schools. Deloach enters the transfer portal after former VCU head coach Mike Rhoades left the program for the head coaching position
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I don't like that competition. Two Fonal Four teams.
 
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