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Post by planoaggie on Mar 18, 2023 17:01:11 GMT -5
In this new era of NIL, transfer portal, and 1 year free waiver, it is extremely hard as a good coach to consistently win year in and year out, especially if you takeover a losing program. If I was coaching in this new era, I would divide my scholarships up 50/50 of incoming Freshmen and transfers so that each year I have enough scholarships available to bring in experience college basketball players and high school players that need to develop skills/strength wise. This will not work successfully unless you have NIL money or a winning record to attract the best transfers.
Today's coach has to not only be able to coach well, but to have a degree in marketing and psychology to deal with these players attitudes these days.
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 18, 2023 17:31:22 GMT -5
I was worried this might happen when Coach Shumpert did not start him over Robinson when he was playing well. Now we will lose our top 3 out of 4 scorers and possibly all 4 if some get their wish. This is bad news for whomever we hire as the next head coach. |
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Post by codeblu78 on Mar 18, 2023 17:45:59 GMT -5
should have chose gas! 🙄
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Mar 18, 2023 17:59:17 GMT -5
Hate to see this happen, but this is the state of college sports today and we are going to have to navigate it. Kids think NIL is gonna make them rich and the portal keeps the dream dream of a check and brighter lights alive.
I don’t know who our next coach will be…or what he has in store, but honestly it might be best that the house be cleaned out.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 18, 2023 17:59:22 GMT -5
should have chose gas! 🙄 Haha |
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Post by aggiechampd on Mar 18, 2023 18:58:13 GMT -5
What does this tweet by Kam Woods mean after Powell's tweet? I think you should send my cash app instead of both of them 🤔 Oh Woods is next folks…Gaither pretty much said it on Twitter responding to my tweet… Get ready for that graphic… New coach gets to recruit his own guys…not a bad thing… |
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 18, 2023 19:22:10 GMT -5
I just saw this, too. I really hate to see him go (if he does). I still say that he should’ve been the cornerstone of the future of the program. This is a different age that these guys are playing in…but I don’t know if he really had a long-term commitment to us. Maybe only a few players do that anymore. The new coach will be starting from scratch, for the most part. |
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Post by DECKS on Mar 18, 2023 20:32:02 GMT -5
This is what will hold us back from becoming a mid major power. If a kid has a decent season you can kiss his @zz good bye. It's almost useless to recruit high school kids.
Next coach must be proficient at making the portal work in his favor.
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 18, 2023 20:42:16 GMT -5
This is what will hold us back from becoming a mid major power. If a kid has a decent season you can kiss his @zz good bye. It's almost useless to recruit high school kids. Next coach must be proficient at making the portal work in his favor. I think you’re dead on-point. And his tweet mentioned MONEY. If Duncan’s decision was based on his inability to land a six-figure NIL deal, and IF that’s most players’ mindset nowadays, we’ll see a lot of players flowing in-and-out of here. |
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 18, 2023 20:43:44 GMT -5
We need to recruit kids whose family already have money 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 18, 2023 21:13:51 GMT -5
Why do people feel losing so many key players may be a good thing for A&T and the new coach? It is extremely difficult to recruit in this new era. Are we going to be patience enough to allow the new coach to build his team from scratch? Kam, Powell, Horton, and Watson scored 71% of our avg. total ppg (50.3 / 70.8)x100. No coach should ever be put in a position to replace that much point production. Their production is even better than calculated because it doesn't take into account any assists that led to points by teammates. How quickly we forget that we finished 7th instead of the predicted 11th with injuries and an interim coach. Who is the leadership going to come from on the court? I know you are going to say we did not have much to start with, but maybe the new coach could have fixed that easier with a more veteran player.
In the past 5-10 years, what is the best recruiting class a coach has brought in (# of players and overall performance) and how did the team do? You need depth and experience to succeed in this and any other conference. Since players are abandoning the ship and some don't see a problem with it, what if Morrice or Felton decide to leave because this was not what they signed up for? Did that not just happen to Jackson State in football? Losing too many players is never good in my opinion. Lastly, in my opinion we should have named a head coach 7 to 10 days after our last games, so he could have talked to some of these kids before they made their decision. We had an entire season. Players these days have so many people telling them what to do that they at times don't know who to trust, especially when it comes to NIL and transfer.
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 18, 2023 21:21:31 GMT -5
This is what will hold us back from becoming a mid major power. If a kid has a decent season you can kiss his @zz good bye. It's almost useless to recruit high school kids. Next coach must be proficient at making the portal work in his favor. I posted earlier that if I was coaching now I would split my scholarships 50/50 among HS seniors and transfers. |
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Mar 18, 2023 21:47:18 GMT -5
This is what will hold us back from becoming a mid major power. If a kid has a decent season you can kiss his @zz good bye. It's almost useless to recruit high school kids. Next coach must be proficient at making the portal work in his favor. I posted earlier that if I was coaching now I would split my scholarships 50/50 among HS seniors and transfers. I hear ya, but it’s just not us! This stuff will settle out, but NC A&T and mid majors in general will have to learn to live in a world where your top players might not be on the team after a great season…that goes for coaches and staff too. Nobody wants to be a steppingstone, but if we are a good program in this new world, sometimes we will be just that. We gonna lose some great ones, and some great ones will find their way to our campus from other programs. |
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 18, 2023 22:04:46 GMT -5
Players no longer have attachments or loyalty to things (schools, teams, location, etc) like the old days. In select/aau ball, players change teams all the time. In high school, players transfer to new schools all the time bucking traditions. In high school, it is common for the good players to leave their home state or city to play ball in a different state for sports reasons (Oak Hill, Montverde, etc). Forget the nonsense that if I grew up in North Carolina I should be loyal to the schools there. It is how they think now. In the NBA and NFL, star players break contracts and go to different teams all the time for the benefit of the player because they are told this is a business now not a family. Are these professional players "traitors" to the city or team?
Society has changed to where that A&T brand for sports is not as bright as it used to be, but that is not A&T's fault at all. Everyone is experiencing the same problem and is trying to find the best solution. Player's don't look at schools anymore like close families, otherwise you would not see players transferring 2 to 3 times. Why do graduate student-athletes who spent 4 years at a school choose to play their 5th year at another school? They choose better opportunity over "family/old school". Are we so quick to label these student-athletes "traitors" now because they go against old tradition? We as fans and coaches are going to have to adapt to the new era. Players are driving the price up to play and the coaches are doing the same in salary to coach. They don't care whether you think they are overpaid or overpriced, i.e. professional players.
The schools that successfully navigate the transfer portal and NIL are those that understand the needs of their players and other school's players. Similar to free agency and the trade deadlines in professional sports. Some are good at it while others are not, but the easy out is always to blame the player. Some players are difficult, but not all. This has become a business, but some will say it always was just that players are now realizing their value.
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 18, 2023 22:06:11 GMT -5
Remember - NONE of them are GONE yet.
See Charlie Dixon, Jaylen Jakson, etc.
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