Man we sure had a quiet day. Cannot imagine reaching out to a girl worth X amount then her agent says naw we want 3X. If I was recruiting I’d travel to the prettiest places and try and find someone there lol Australia, Japan, Lithuania…
We NEED OU to have wrestling success. We cannot have a traditional top 6 blue-blood program continue to drop or they will drop the sport. That would be terrible for the sport. We need to encourage some success for them. The sport is bigger than bedlam hatred for their school
Last year it felt like coaches globetrotted. A lot of money spent on flights, passports etc to not bring one of those players back for next year. I wouldn’t want much part of the American product of pay to play basketball so maybe overseas approach is best?
Is there a list of NIL values on our current players? Crazy seeing Michigan spent $10M. Appeared to be 80% of the sweet 16 teams spent over $6M. Where do we stand in relation to all that craziness?
Avery Hjelmstad is also in the portal. Ed Memorial kiddo I believe. We were in her top 3-5 final teams and she chose Utah. They had a coaching change now she’s in the portal. Would be nice to get a home grown kid back in Orange and black! Anyone know her/family?
Selfless Eddie plays. Making the extra pass, taking a charge, hustling back to break up a fast break. That kind of stuff. Hard to define objectively but I know many coaches keep hustle stats. Feels like rewarding that behavior is a better long term investment on these paychecks as opposed to...
I think we expect every player to be a $1M 4-5 star future NBA player. It can take a couple yrs to learn a system, develop ball handling and become an all conference type player. I think our patient wears thin in all sports and we are quick to judge players faults. I liked Clarys body language...