Bear Down Wildcats

BE4RDOWN21 wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

dovecanyoncat wrote:Hoping Brandon Williams doesn't know something we don't know.

I don't know Brandon Williams, but here's my best logic here:

Right now things are looking better, but it's a long way from secure. Even if Miller beat back the wire talk, we're still on the hook for Book.

If I'm Williams, I'd want to see that guys like Randolph, Akot and Lee are sticking it out. He doesn't want to be a PG with no one to pass to.

It all leads to this, he needs a Plan A and Plan B. Are we A or B? I don't balme him for having a Plan B, though. ESPN screwed us hard even if that report is completely debunked.

Is Williams decommittal indicative of Miller not being back next year?

rgdeuce wrote:The massive erection I was carrying around for the last 24 hours is gone.

As of now, Alex Barcello will be our starting point guard next season. Let that sink in.

rgdeuce wrote:The massive erection I was carrying around for the last 24 hours is gone.

As of now, Alex Barcello will be our starting point guard next season. Let that sink in.

phenom5 wrote:Can we get a reverse loop of the star spangled eagle boner to close this thread? Only to be re-opened with the original star spangled eagle boner gif if there is a re-commit?

Alieberman wrote:1 month.... put away all bad juju for 1 month.... enjoy it

UAEebs86 wrote:Time to move this to Arch Rivals?

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:Time to move this to Arch Rivals?

Maybe I'm naieve, but he's not gone yet. He explicitly left the door open...hopefully for a reason.

rgdeuce wrote:
I wouldn't blame him for leaving considering all the BS we have gone through and the reality of serious injury already hitting him. That said, he would have a chance to improve his stock on a team that would be essentially his. He seems a half-step slow on both ends this year (could be the injury), which I'm guessing would cause many teams to pause on taking him when you factor in the inconsistent shooting thus far (could be because of him missing so much time).

U.P. Zona Fan wrote:Is he gone?

BE4RDOWN21 wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

UAEebs86 wrote:Time to move this to Arch Rivals?

Maybe I'm naieve, but he's not gone yet. He explicitly left the door open...hopefully for a reason.

Unless some of these mouth breathers that call themselves fans, steer him away with some of their bullshit comments on his twitter. smh

U.P. Zona Fan wrote:Well, can't say I wouldn't have done the same. Hope he makes a good decision, respect the way he did it more than an LOL tweet. That was poopy.

enfuego wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:
I wouldn't blame him for leaving considering all the BS we have gone through and the reality of serious injury already hitting him. That said, he would have a chance to improve his stock on a team that would be essentially his. He seems a half-step slow on both ends this year (could be the injury), which I'm guessing would cause many teams to pause on taking him when you factor in the inconsistent shooting thus far (could be because of him missing so much time).

The "we didn't want him anyway" excuse.

enfuego wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:
I wouldn't blame him for leaving considering all the BS we have gone through and the reality of serious injury already hitting him. That said, he would have a chance to improve his stock on a team that would be essentially his. He seems a half-step slow on both ends this year (could be the injury), which I'm guessing would cause many teams to pause on taking him when you factor in the inconsistent shooting thus far (could be because of him missing so much time).

The "we didn't want him anyway" excuse.

enfuego wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:
I wouldn't blame him for leaving considering all the BS we have gone through and the reality of serious injury already hitting him. That said, he would have a chance to improve his stock on a team that would be essentially his. He seems a half-step slow on both ends this year (could be the injury), which I'm guessing would cause many teams to pause on taking him when you factor in the inconsistent shooting thus far (could be because of him missing so much time).

The "we didn't want him anyway" excuse.

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

U.P. Zona Fan wrote:Well, can't say I wouldn't have done the same. Hope he makes a good decision, respect the way he did it more than an LOL tweet. That was poopy.

97cats was on here talking about Miller and Arizona being an inevitable split up until the press conference. I mean, I love Arizona, but it isn't hard to understand why we're having difficulty locking people in right now. I can't fault Williams or Shareef.

CalStateTempe wrote:Are you guys virtue signaling that the new player we should gripe over is Barcello now that Ristic is decent?

I’m holding out he’ll make his sophomore jump. Plus he has a year in the system under his belt.

Edit: what alieb said.

ChooChooCat wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:Fwiw I've got the perfect grad transfer PG in mind if Williams does bolt lol.

You know of any 4s or 5s? Any JUCO guys?

I listed a few grad transfer options who are 4s and 5s, here's a few:

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... jah-minnie" target="_blank
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... on-menzies" target="_blank
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... n-mekowulu" target="_blank

Doesn't mean any of these guys will be grad transfers, but they would qualify to do so.

Here's the PG who could grad transfer:

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... jon-elmore" target="_blank

As far as JUCOs go here's a list of a bunch of players. I'm not even going to attempt to begin navigating this stuff though.

http://www.jucorecruiting.com/2018top100rankings" target="_blank

rgdeuce wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Are you guys virtue signaling that the new player we should gripe over is Barcello now that Ristic is decent?

I’m holding out he’ll make his sophomore jump. Plus he has a year in the system under his belt.

Edit: what alieb said.

I don't want Barcello to leave at all. I still think he is gonna do great things for this program. I just don't want to be in a position were he is the starting PG of next year's team

azcat49 wrote:Who's going to transfer and sit out a whole year? Plenty of minutes next year

Captain Obvious wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Are you guys virtue signaling that the new player we should gripe over is Barcello now that Ristic is decent?

I’m holding out he’ll make his sophomore jump. Plus he has a year in the system under his belt.

Edit: what alieb said.

I don't want Barcello to leave at all. I still think he is gonna do great things for this program. I just don't want to be in a position were he is the starting PG of next year's team

The way things are going with the decommits and possible transfers he may not have a choice.

Postmaster wrote:Now would be the time to self sanction a couples shcolies.
Probably only have 8-10 players anyway.

EastCoastCat wrote:

Postmaster wrote:Now would be the time to self sanction a couples shcolies.
Probably only have 8-10 players anyway.

Why would we do that before we have completed our internal investigation which is still ongoing?

Haven't we learned over the past week or so not to jump to conclusions until all of the facts are known?

Longhorned wrote:Maybe everybody here but me knows the answer to this question, but what do precedents suggest would be the NCAA penalty for an assistant coach who admits to taking unreported money from a shoe company in exchange for influencing players' future careers? Obviously steeper than for a campus caught giving fake classes and unearned degrees to their student athletes, but what are we talking here?

Longhorned wrote:Maybe everybody here but me knows the answer to this question, but what do precedents suggest would be the NCAA penalty for an assistant coach who admits to taking unreported money from a shoe company in exchange for influencing players' future careers? Obviously steeper than for a campus caught giving fake classes and unearned degrees to their student athletes, but what are we talking here?

ASUHATER! wrote:

Longhorned wrote:Maybe everybody here but me knows the answer to this question, but what do precedents suggest would be the NCAA penalty for an assistant coach who admits to taking unreported money from a shoe company in exchange for influencing players' future careers? Obviously steeper than for a campus caught giving fake classes and unearned degrees to their student athletes, but what are we talking here?

Considering the punishment we got for an unwitting signature by Lute for something pizza related, we'll get the book thrown at us compared to the slap on the wrist for UNC.

EastCoastCat wrote:

Postmaster wrote:Now would be the time to self sanction a couples shcolies.
Probably only have 8-10 players anyway.

Why would we do that before we have completed our internal investigation which is still ongoing?

Haven't we learned over the past week or so not to jump to conclusions until all of the facts are known?

Longhorned wrote:Is it possible we're not talking a big punishment here?

We acknowledge that, just because something isn't a crime, that doesn't mean it isn't an NCAA violation. But in this case it could be a crime, but not an NCAA violation. Kind of analogous to UNC, which was an heinous affront to higher education, but a campus rather than athletics matter.

ChooChooCat wrote:Just offered by Oregon.