My issue isnât with the quality of the player, itâs the ridiculous difference in hype. He is the same player he was at Tulane where he got minimal fanfare, and now heâs the second coming.
Thatâs what irks me. If he was that damn good of a player at Tulane then why wasnât he receiving that much hype there?
Answer: he wasnât even a 3rd team all conference player for the American this past season (we had a 2nd and a 3rd team player).
(he won the sportsmanship award)
The hype is because he is going to Duke, plain and simple.
On that basis Cye and Igor would instantly become Lebron and Kobe if they transferred to Duke.
If Tulane had lived up to preseason expectations, then he may have been all AAC. Finishing 5-13 in league play wasnât going to land any more than Kevin Cross as all conference.
Anyway, donât disagree that the Duke landing has escalated the hype.
Not really. Not hardly actually. We just feel more desperate for our players.
Several programs have lost more players and more âvalueâ. We also had less to lose to begin with.
We havenât even lost half as many as Duke or Kentucky. Louisville lost their entire team. Charlotte Duke Kentucky Louisville
See that Wake just signed an ex-Card who originally committed to Memphis before flipping to UofL. Stats similar to Caleb Mills so may have made a difference for the Tigers last season after Mills was lost to career ending injury. But then, who knows what Penny would have done!
Wish someone in the industry would explain how foreign players like Osobor are getting this money since they are ineligible per visa restrictions to receive it while in the US. (Definitely not getting paid under the table like in the old days with everything being announced publicly!)
And another thing - read that a BYU player had entered the portal today - almost 2 weeks after the portal supposedly closed!
Yep, but what I read gave the impression that BYUâs Noah Waterman entered today, not that he had done so prior to May 1 and just now being announced. Guess it could have been a poorly worded communication.
Does he get 30 days after the coaching change at BYU? Seems like there is a time period after a coach leaves when players can enter but Iâm not sure how long that is.
