Exactly zero, but Iām not sure how me seeing a couple of games would inform my opinion about him any better. Who knows if the game you show up for is even a good game or bad game or average one with out any context of his stats. We have nearly all the stats for every high school game he has played available. Really the only thing missing that would be helpful is minutes per game. The only think you could really see of value is how athletic the guy looks but if itās not translating on the court into anything tangible in the stats whatās it even really matter other than heās got some untapped potential perhaps.
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Does the name āstill jonesingā mean anything to you?
Typical banter. The kid yāall went after hard and your 247 beat writer drooled over picked us, and now heās ānot that goodā to you. Big time giggles.
Canāt wait to see where the massive collection of Jucos leads ECU. Although I gotta tell you Iāve seen that movie before here at Charlotte and the ending isnāt good. But it will probably far exceed expectations for pirate hoops.
I was highly skeptical last fall of Dooley recruiting him after seeing his statline, itās not like Iāve said anything different here than on ECU boards. Granted his senior year was a lot better and would have eased some of the shooting concerns .
Also we signed 4 freshman as well including a 6-6, 200lb similar type guy as him with offers from Georgia Tech, Texas A&M and Auburn. Itās not like they are all JUCOās.
Who was that 4 star guard that was going to turn your program around?
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Much like you guys weāve had a lot of attrition of our best players. Syracuseās 2nd best player Hughes started at ECU as a freshmanā¦ Itās not like we havenāt had some good players come through here. He Kentrell Barkley and Gardner should have been on the team last year. Tejada think is who you are referring too, went to Lehigh and was 10th in the NCAAās in 3 point percentage at 46% ended up having a good career.
Thatās the thing about the freshman route these days, if you get a good one you have to fight off the big boys from recruiting them directly off your team, you guys should know as much as anyone. Dooley said as much in a recent interview, basically you stand a good chance of being the farm team giving them the PT when they are young and canāt play much winning ball and then they move on. Iāve seen that movie too. Say what you want about a JUCO, but who wants a JUCO guy that has to sit out a year to play one year. Lot easier to keep them in todayās environment if they are good. Also 2 of the JUCOās were at Washington and Virginia Tech prior, basically just D1 transfers as much as JUCOās.
Well praise lebo
Itās true though. If teams like ours could keep guys like Dorin, Woods, Hughes etc together until their senior year I think the outcomes are better. You have to play the transfer game as well to be successful now with like 1500 transfers. JUCO is fine with me as well at least they pretty much canāt leave after they get here and play a year. Itās a way to fast forward the process and insulate. I like grad transfers but I donāt like you have to invest a wasted year in a sit out transfer only to have many of them grad transfer out as seniors again.
Charlotteās
4 freshman
2 D1 grad transfers (1 year eligibility)
ECU
4 freshman
2 D1 transfers via JUCO (2 years eligibility)
7 JUCOās but 2 were at PAC12/ACC schools and are essentially just regular transfers that didnāt want to sit out. The 2 others have 3 years of eligibility. Not your typcial JUCOās.
If you arenāt still jonesing to be sure you must know him? Why did you leave? Was it because we were all correct and almighty Lebo sucked? Are you back because you think this guy is the answer? Oyvey
Someone was on some ECU board , got lost and wondered over here.
SEND HIM BACK!
SEBD HIM BACK!
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There is an entire active ECU thread on this board that attracted me. Also itās not like prognostications on Major or Price were any better. Relative to our lack of history Lebo actually did accomplish some things and has 2 of our best seasons ever, sad but true. We have 4 top 100ish RPI years ever and he had 2, Dave Odom had 1, and Dooley had the last one when he was 30 years old on a shoestring CAA budget.
Yeah I think Dooley has a chance to have success here given the fact heās probably learned a lot in the 20 years since including in 11 years as the top assistant at Kansas and running a successful program at FGCU he took to NCAAās/NITās and has massively more resources here now than he did as a 29 year old when he got the job the first time. Obviously he thinks he can win here or he wouldnāt have come back after. He spent 8 years here already he should know and interviewed for the Rhode Island job before taking ours and had a good team coming back at FGCUā¦
dooley will probably do well at ecu. he makes the nit and he will be there forever but he is recruiting pretty well and gardner is a good piece to start with.
I donāt know that thatās true. We had some injuries that cost us an NIT one of his years and in his last year to our best player that gave Hammrick the cover to fire him in the 90ās. He had really bad luck. All it would take is the next guy wanting his own guy again. The fact he came back when after 20+ years when we didnāt have an AD last year says that he really wants to be here/thinks he can win here to step back into the same situation with an AD that didnāt hire you could fire you.
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I really like this schedule. We have to focus on regional games to generate interest among fans/students/community. We can sign a 10 year home and home contract with ECU and I wouldnāt be upset. I wouldnāt even waste money on guaranteed games. We suck so bad that nothing is guaranteed at this point.
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Do you like gladiator movies?
I think these say more than the articles you guys posted above about the new ECU players.
Bitumba Baruti 6-7, 225
Charles Coleman 7-0, 255
JJ Miles 6-7, 220
Ludgy Debaut 7-0, 245
Tristen Newton 6-5, 185
Miles James 6-6, 215
Pig Jackson 6-2, 215
Those are lame as shit.
Compared to what, Zion? Itās not just every day you get a 7-0ā 255lb freshman that can drop 6 threeās in the same game that Duke offered to come to your school. Lameo.
they have a couple good guys in there. they have an 11 man class and we still are ranked ahead of them in recruiting but i would take a charles coleman for sure, especially with the difficutly we have had landing a legit big