Thanks Mike, I listened this morning and have listened to almost every episode of the season and always enjoy the insight. I don’t get in to too many of the basketball threads here anymore because it is pretty much the same thing over and over again but I will post my opinion on the season here. I don’t think it was by coincidental that about the same time Butler left the team and Hardy had the concussion issue is when they went on that 7 game win streak and we’re playing their best basketball. It was basically down to a six man rotation at that point and those guys were playing really well together. I also think playing that many minutes in all of those games is why we saw them hit the wall down the stretch, it was just a little too much to sustain. Especially for a guy like Kobe, you just saw the outside shooting disappear. It was a fun team to watch, loved the hustle in most of these guys, they just looked tired and a step off at the end. The preseason injuries and redshirt decisions didn’t seem like that big of factor at them time because they weren’t key guys, but I think it really did become a factor, especially having 2 guys leave before the end of the season.
I saw that you posted a correction on the portal entry date. Don’t know if you have seen Meyer and Blackmon from Costal Carolina have already entered. I was pretty impressed by Meyer in the tournament. Also I assume the JUCO PG you mentioned is Brody Robinson. Throwing the name out there because I had already mentioned him I think in the thread when Jeremiah Evans signed. It is out there on a few recruiting sites and his personal twitter that we offered, but I think he has about 20 offers at this point. Hopefully we are a front runner because he looks to be tearing it up at the JUCO level.