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Post by Maxell on Mar 13, 2023 15:23:43 GMT -5
Marcus Watson has entered the portal Good. |
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 13, 2023 15:30:55 GMT -5
And is the new coach a good recruiter. If not, he could be filling in those spots with the same or lesser talented players. Unknowns. Eternal pessimist How so? A&T-roy said it depends on who is leaving and I added it also should depend on whether the new coach is a good recruiter. It appears A&T-roy thinks a past coach did not recruit well. We should just consider this when weighing if this is a good thing. I did not disagree with his comment. |
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Post by saabman on Mar 13, 2023 16:15:23 GMT -5
His mom told me at the CAA Tournament that she told the coach that he could win the game for him...... Also, she hinted at lack of NIL, etc. His mom has been part of his problem at ever school that he attended starting in Oklahoma to his arrival at A&T . Watson MO has always been as a Selfish player with his mom in the back ground encouraging his selfish play. His father is delayed back chill type of guy . A close HS and Aggie friend and I had this conversation about Watsons play and his mom , who is a friend of his wife's. About the disparaging things she would say about A&T not having this or that or NIL and that her son could have went to all these others. He said the strong that broke the camel's back was when she said she don't understand why he chose A&T when he could be playing somewhere else . His reply was " then get your son and both of you go somewhere else, if you don't like it here at A&T " in true Aggie Pride form . Also the athletes at Oklahoma State were happy when he transferred out ( the reasons for his transfer is a completely different conversation) . My Texas friends had kids that were on the team with him at that time and not one of there kids had anything nice to say about him as a teammate. Truthfully I'm glad that Watson is in the portal AGAIN . Thanks for the memories and good luck at your next stop . Now Kick Rocks |
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Post by saabman on Mar 13, 2023 16:23:07 GMT -5
His mom told me at the CAA Tournament that she told the coach that he could win the game for him...... Also, she hinted at lack of NIL, etc. NIL deals and transfers are costing some good coaches their job. How so ? Maybe at the Top tier conferences and programs but not at the mid-major level . |
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 13, 2023 16:23:32 GMT -5
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Post by aggielaw on Mar 13, 2023 16:23:45 GMT -5
She did indicate that he liked everything about A&T!
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Post by Aggie77 on Mar 13, 2023 17:08:08 GMT -5
His mom told me at the CAA Tournament that she told the coach that he could win the game for him...... Also, she hinted at lack of NIL, etc. That was before the game, right? Once the game started he tried, but came up brick city. |
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 13, 2023 17:15:43 GMT -5
Yiu guys are H3ll
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 13, 2023 17:35:36 GMT -5
NIL deals and transfers are costing some good coaches their job. How so ? Maybe at the Top tier conferences and programs but not at the mid-major level . Yes, not as much at the mid-major level as to NIL. |
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Post by saabman on Mar 13, 2023 18:21:34 GMT -5
She did indicate that he liked everything about A&T! He liked everything, but she had nothing good to say about A&T from what was stated to me . |
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Mar 13, 2023 19:09:23 GMT -5
She did indicate that he liked everything about A&T! He liked everything, but she had nothing good to say about A&T from what was stated to me . Parents like that can be a kids worst enemy. The fact that he has transferred multiple times tells me all I need to know. Someone will give him a chance in the portal, but it won’t be the schools that would make her happy. He’s like a pretty girl that’s been passed around…no matter how fine she is, her reputation is busted. |
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Post by Maxell on Mar 13, 2023 19:18:13 GMT -5
He’s like a pretty girl that’s been passed around…no matter how fine she is, her reputation is busted. |
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 13, 2023 19:32:53 GMT -5
"physically", he's as talented as they come at our level. i mean, no one can deny that. but his "style of play"? that's the problem and i don't know if any coach can reel him in to become more of a "team player".
man, when i played high school basketball, phil ford was playing at rocky mount high school and he could've easily "averaged" 40 ppg if he wanted to but he wasn't a selfish player. i mean, we "double-teamed" his azz akin to what some of the schools we played this season did to watson. and i'll never forget how much ford made us "regret" double-teaming him.
unlike watson, this mugg was finding his teammates for "open layups" due to us double-teaming him! if my memory serves me correctly, he had a teammate named thomas blue who played college ball at ecsu along with one of my high school teammates. blue must've scored 30 or more points against us that night cuz ford picked us apart with his "passes" to a wide open thomas blue.
watson could've done that for us cuz he often got "double-teamed" but instead of finding the open man, he forced up ill-advised shots against 2 or 3 defenders "or" just turned the ball over altogether. my thinking is that he probably wouldn't fit well with the next aggie head coach anyway cuz only an extreme few coaches would tolerate that kind of selfish play. that's probably why he's in the portal and that's probably why he wasn't recognized for any all conference honors...
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 13, 2023 22:34:30 GMT -5
How so? A&T-roy said it depends on who is leaving and I added it also should depend on whether the new coach is a good recruiter. It appears A&T-roy thinks a past coach did not recruit well. We should just consider this when weighing if this is a good thing. I did not disagree with his comment. I don't know if I think the coaches that were around, when we got the current players, didn't recruit well. I think they did s decent job for the conferences we were in (MEAC & Big South). We still have some MEAC remnants left on the team...some that got quite a bit of playing time and some that didn't. |
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 14, 2023 5:18:58 GMT -5
How so? A&T-roy said it depends on who is leaving and I added it also should depend on whether the new coach is a good recruiter. It appears A&T-roy thinks a past coach did not recruit well. We should just consider this when weighing if this is a good thing. I did not disagree with his comment. I don't know if I think the coaches that were around, when we got the current players, didn't recruit well. I think they did a decent job for the conferences we were in (MEAC & Big South). We still have some MEAC remnants left on the team...some that got quite a bit of playing time and some that didn't. Why do you feel "certain" players recruited (exclude walk-ons) to play in the MEAC and Big South were not suitable or cut out for the CAA? If the player did not see the floor in either conferences and was not injured then that is a recruiting problem in my opinion and not a result in conference change. If a player's playing time or performance has decreased then that could be for a number of reasons like injuries, better recruits came in thru the transfer portal (we had 6 transfers I believe this past season), struggle with development, conference change, poor chemistry of players on the floor, etc. Could the issue be more with our coaches not adjusting to team's style of play in the different conferences or not recruiting well, rather than you reasoning that "certain" players may have had difficulty competing in the CAA? The reason I ask is if there is only a small sample size how do you know that is the case and secondly, there is only a small difference in the ranking of these 3 conferences when it comes to strength. We also know that CAA teams have lost to teams in the MEAC and Big South this season. The Big South is even ranked higher than the CAA in the NET Ranking this year which the NCAA uses to help with the March Madness seeding instead of the RPI Ranking. See below links. www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/rpi-ranking/rpi-rating-by-confbracketologists.com/conferences/Based on this information, in my opinion A&T's conference changes should factor little to none in a player's performance, but you have watched the team play in person which I have not. That weighs a lot to me. I don't like to place blame on young men too quickly, if a mistake could have been made by an adult. Other than the walk-ons these players were recruited by our coaches so let's not excuse them from blame if we don't like a player's performance as well as others or that a player chooses to transfer. A coach can have a decent overall recruiting performance, but 1 or 2 questionable recruits which I believe you were maybe ok if they transferred. |
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