Question is would it have been NIT or the new Crown. If the latter pretty easy to understand, If the former, getting tourney experience might have helped for the future
So that is it for the season
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I’m guessing you may have overlooked the crap ton of injuries and the team playing on fumes. Not much more to learn this year. Need to get healthy and start recruiting. Onward.
Too bad for us fans but I have to admit if it were not for the injuries that got the young guys on the court, I wouldn't be very excited about next year. Seeing the young guys hold their own and Mart continue to excel even without Barney or Leach on the floor is really encouraging. When you consider most players, if healthy, improve year over year sometimes dramatically, next years team could be way better than I was thinking at the beginning of this season.
KJ flashed a ton early at least from an attacking the ball basket perspective. 2nd best at breaking down a defender off the dribble I’ve seen as a freshman at NU. Upside was clear from the jump.
Gelo needed a little bit to flash his athleticism and jump shot. Still needs to get more comfortable to really show his ceiling.
I talked to several players at length face to face after the MD game. It was obvious they were not going to play after the BTT unless they won it.
Villanova hasn't fired their coach yet. He's only in his third year, though fans are grumbling because they haven't made the tournament under him.
Are we to assume it is 100 percent about the money? Realistically can Collins improve the program anymore than he already has here at NU? Is the ceiling the tournament #8 seed? Who knows that motivates the guy. Too bad his son graduated! That seemed to ensure he wasn’t going anywhere.
Didn't he just sign a very talented and well rounded class? Some have said it is potentially the best class he has ever signed. The current roster has a lot of well regarded talent as well, which was not the case when he landed the original Big Dance class.
I don't think he is going anywhere but he has to play the renegotiating game every chance he gets or soon the players will be making more than he is.
I can't see anyone wanting to leave a power conference school to go to the Big East.
Realistically, it may be. A fully funded NIL may help. The conference is ridiculously hard now tho.
I totally get it, but EIGHTEEN P4 teams. That's just a lot of competition. Not like FB when we could rise up in a weak B1GW here and there
Absolutely he can improve the program even more.
A lot hangs on the success of this new recruiting class and the older statesmen coming back, but Collins has been turning NU into a respectable program, and all the interviews and 'The Journey' stuff is big (haha) PR about a coach that respects, loves, and fights for his players and his players reciprocating. That kind of stuff could turn NU into a primary destination for the kinds of players he wants.
I think Collins has his eyes set on a championship, and I think that barring the injury bug he has had a couple of teams in the last two years that were at least sweet sixteen material - and I think he knows it. He wants more, and he can get it at NU even with its baggage.
I agree with this and unless coaches at this level are satisfied to take a team from C to B and leave on a good note, or he is board of the challenge NU offers, I can't see any reason why he wouldn't want to stay and try to take NU from B to A. They have given him the facilities where he finally knows he has a home advantage, the talent on the roster has improved incrementally and the fan base is getting more involved. He has a chance to build something really historic at NU and I think they are paying him pretty well. Why leave? Things could be a lot worse.
If Mark Jackson cannot retain Collins, should he be able to keep his job as AD?
Our ceiling is probably a 4 seed, guys. We would have been a 6 last year with no injuries. Everyone on that team was, at best, a 3 star except Ty who was a low 4. With mid-to-high 4 stars we can get to the 4 line. Have faith!
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