That only applies to season-ending injuries. For example, Gaines and Crawford both got an injury redshirt year because they played in less than 30% of NU's games the year they were injured.
Looking forward to next year
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They have these things called “practice”. They occur pretty much every day. The coaches watch “practice” and get an understanding of what, you know, the kids can do. Kids that perform well in “practice” earn minutes in the actual games.
Free eligibility year, from COVID, so it didn’t matter how many games he played in this year.
Thanks for the condescending tone CSC! Always makes ones point so much more poignant.
While what you said is, in general, true, you can’t assume yourself that Nicholson sucked in practice. You were not there.
Applying that logic to every situation means Beran must have been Tim Duncan in practice.
See where I’m going with this? Not a huge stretch to question the decisions of our coach.
He’s not the same guy deciding to play them or not
This Nicholson debate is absurd. I can’t believe I got sucked down this rabbit hole. I’m done with this charade.
I hate to break this to you Collins loyalists, but it is a fact that NU outscored its opponents when Young and Nance were on the court together, based on the last 13 games of the season.
There are too many of you who just assume Collins knows what he is doing. The statistical evidence says he does not.
There are too many of you who just assume Collins knows what he is doing. The statistical evidence says he does not.
Oh yes he does! What college, H.S. or Biddy ball team are you coaching? Oh, thought so!
Chris Collins has never been successful as a head basketball coach anywhere. Same is true of me. Of course, I've never tried. Thats why I rely on things like observations and statistics to formulate my opinions. Which of the three 10 game losing streaks do you think are an indication that he is a competent coach? 2021? 2019? 2020?
The stats on his misuse of his roster are undeniable.
How about the year he led the Wildcats to their only NCAA Tournament appearance?
How do you know Collins actually helped that team?
He recruited Law, Lindsey, McIntosh and Skelly in his first true class.
Thats great. The optimism was palpable.
2013-14, the top 6 players are Olah, Crawford, Lumpkin, Cobb, Demps and Sobolewski, all Carmody guys. Not a bad group. We go 14-19, 6-12. Drew Crawford never smiled the entire season.
2014-15 Demps, Olah, Cobb and Lumpkin are joined by McIntosh, Lindsey and Law. Pretty good group of players. We go 15-17, 6-12.
2015-16 Demps, Olah, Lumpkin, McIntosh, Lindsey and frosh Pardon and Falzon. Law out. Good group of players. 20-12, 8-10. oddly, no NIT.
2016-17 Lumpkin, McIntosh, Lindsey, Law, Skelly and Pardon. frosh Brown and Benson. Falzon injured. An experienced, talented team built on Collins first recruiting class. 24-12, 10-8 NCAA.
2017-18 Everybody is back except Taphorn and Lumpkin. Frosh Gaines plays 18 mpg. 15-17, 6-12.
(Collins lost me during this season as the team was worse than anyone imagined possible)
2018-19 Pardon, Gaines and Law, two transfers and frosh Kopp and Nance. 13-19, 4-16.
2019-20 Kopp, Nance and Gaines, two transfers joined by Buie, Young, Beran. 8-23, 3-17.
2020-21 Kopp, Nance, Young, Gaines, Buie, Beran all back. Audige transfer in. Berry. 9-15, 6-13.
A team of talented players that never got it together.
Meanwhile, Isiah Brown saw his minutes chopped during that horrible 2017-18 season and left NU for the Grand Canyon Antelopes (the school, not the animal).
Rapolas Ivanauskas also got frustrated and left in 2018, becoming Patriot League MVP during NU's disastrous 2018-19 season.
Barret Benson got frustrated and left for SIU in 2019 where he played 27 minutes per game. To his credit he earned his degree from NU in 3 seasons, then left.
Following his 3 years of agony, Miller Kopp bailed out after the 2020-21 season.
If this is what success looks like, you can have it. One winning record in his 8 Big Ten seasons.
Yay Coach Collins!
Were you in favor of replacing Carmody? He had a better record than CC. And got close a couple of times.
Well, like many others, I suffered thru some difficult Carmody seasons where he just didn't have the players. Because our facilities were at the bottom of the Big Ten and our academics were at the top, recruiting was quite difficult. His personal style and approach to the game were also negatives for the vast majority of 18 year old prospects, I'd assume. The transfer portal didn't exist. Its an advantage now.
But Carmody was rarely outcoached.
Collins doesn't have most of these excuses.
Before Carmody, the results were worse overall, sometimes a lot worse.
