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BJ’s Providence offer may have been off the table but he had other D1 offers. But yeah I don’t think there was much if any competing D1 offers for the others. Heck I think we lost a recruiting battle to Augie last year.

If we are talking about a sophomore in high school being our best guard…. Klabo is very talented and will be a very good college player and is a very good high school player right now but no he would not be our best guard right now.

This is ridiculous.

The most frustrating thing for me is it felt like we finally started finding something Thanksgiving weekend but we just haven’t been able to find it since. There’s been glimpses of it against Seattle, UST, USD and SDSU but no finish or too many periods of droughts. Is it there? Sure.

UND will have at least 1 scholarship yet to use next year since Ndouko isn’t coming it appears. Just with how college basketball is, I would guess we have one more too. Two priorities, find a fricken point guard and a big. Easier said than done, sure. Also, I know we have two 6’9”+ guys coming in and Nicholson could be a factor but I want bruiser.

The timeout thing is so frustrating. It happens every game.

Ok I’m ready. Move on. Mass exodus so be it.

Part of my reason for being hesitant on saying Sather needs to go is because of how many real good basketball minds respect him and think he was a hell of a hire for us. I know everyone has dealt with the portal and Covid and all that but it also feels like no one has had worse luck than Sather too. I get it, that excuse is probably overused. I guess I think some are afraid we are going to be letting go of an actual good coach too soon while others are convinced he’s the worst coach to step in the Betty. Which is it? I don’t know and it’s for Bill Chaves to decide.

You’re not wrong. Huge priority this offseason should be adding some post players.

Graduate and transfer to Gonzaga. That’s different imo. Either way I agree it’s not apples to apples that’s why I’m saying why are we comparing the two.

Thankfully.

I like Levias for 10-15 mins. He’s a calm player out there. Can hit a shot, can dribble the ball.

Trent, Eaglestaff, Danielson, Omot and T. Brooks, Levias with Norman sprinkled in. That’s it.

Chaves has left his perch to talk to Brekke

Regardless of the Jones vs Sather comparison, this program deserves better than we have had for the last 5 years. I would love to be winning conference championships every other year like the xDSUs have done it seems but let’s just start with being in the conversation. We are, right now, what WIU is in football.

I’m looking to roll with something like this to start: Trent or Brooks Eaglestaff BJ Levias T Roll with Brooks as the 6th man and then smaller roles for Danielson, Norman and Mathews from there and you can maybe sprinkle in some Sueker if desperate.

I guess I would consider Ihenacho, Paul Bruns and Omot all high end talent. Brooks and Eaglestaff are also fairly talented. On the X’s and O’s part I’m comparing him solely to Brian Jones.

I was pretty excited about Herbst as well.

Sather has also been able to recruit some high end talent. Yeah he hasn’t retained it and I guess Jones did but that was an entirely different world of college basketball where if you wanted to transfer you had to sit out a year unless you got a waiver. So I would consider that comparison apples to oranges. On the budget piece, Sather is also dealing with a real tight budget so dealt the same hand there. Sather has typically proven to be the better X’s and O’s coach compared to Jones. This last game was really fricken weird. No idea what was going on there but it’s not a good sign. Having said all of that, no matter if you feel Jones is a better coach than Sather or vice versa I think that’s besides the point. We should strive for better than Jones and certainly better than what Sather has shown his first few years. We can have a winning program in Grand Forks, we shouldn’t settle to be the bottom of the conference year in and year out.

I agree with this. I have wondered the last few games what the heck is Sather scheming up but in the past it seemed pretty good.

All this game shall be forgotten Thursday when BJ or Brooks puts Bruns on a poster and we pull the upset. Maybe wishful thinking.

You have one legitimate candidate in Kyan Brown. What a ludicrous list.

I really don’t think this comparison is fair to Danielson. He’s a fine serviceable player. Should he be our starting ball handler? No. But he does some things really well.

I’m sure he could. If I was the other team though, I wouldn’t guard him outside the paint and maybe even hack-a-Shaq him.

I’ve wanted to wait on this topic for a bit but yesterday has me damn near ready. My unrealistic top choice is Ben McCollum, I’ve said that over and over. Other than that, I’m looking at Kyan Brown, Gameli Ahelegbe, Jeff Boschee, Saul Phillips. Three D2 guys and 2 D1 mid-major assistants. I would love to go pluck a rising D1 assistant but a) I don’t know who those are and b) the financial aspect.