“Reid is a former three-star recruit who has spent both of his collegiate seasons at South Florida. He’s a native of Westbury, New York. He averaged 12.7PPG, 3.6APG and 2.6RPG this season.”
He’s also 5-10.
He’s also 5-10.
Twitter chatter says Jayden Reid is a Wildcat
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Chattanooga has 2 little demon guards who are 5'10 and 6'0. They are the team's top scorers and they are a lot of fun to watch.
My God, just like a real program we're starting to have wars between semi-connected rumor mongering sources who often have the goods and the traditional insider semi-pro media who has the pipeline of straight dope and waits until stuff is solid before running it. What a world! It's a beautiful thing.
I don't really understand this pick-up. I thought Windham and Clayton showed enough to roll with them for next year. NU should've prioritized a wing shooter and a center. Even if another scholly opens up, I would've taken a second wing shooter or ace defender.
I would guess we're gonna see him used exactly like Leech: as a secondary ball handler and shooter. He's a good shooter and still young. He can play mostly off ball but also help create some in the offense, beat pressure, etc. We don't really have a third ball handler on the roster after Windham and Clayton, and that' concerning. Offensively I can see how it's a great fit of a pickup presuming the coaches also like the projectability of his skills to continue improving.
Now, defensively given his size... I have more concerns.
It's well-reported on The Rock. Come on, Ty, throw your old pal, Louie, some money, and you'll have all this at your fingertips.
Addresses a major need.
Now, for that big...
Now, for that big...
Surely this guy was targeted to play the point.
Watch Reid’s tape. Sure, he has a good handle and shows some dribble penetration skills, but he’s also very adept off the ball coming off screens and curls and shooting jumpers.
Evan Miya has Jayden Reid as the #1196 rated player in Division 1.
South Florida was a bad team this past season (#193 overall), with Reid ranked as their 3rd best player.
His Performance Rating was 1.25 - indicating that he was 1.25 points per game better than an average D1 player.
For comparison, Northwestern's Performance Ratings ranged from Nicholson at 5.24 down to Justin Mullins at 1.68 and Angelo Ciaravino at 1.66. Jordan Clayton played a limited number of games and registered a -0.38, indicating a below average D1 player.
Bart Torvik has Reid's "Points Over Replacement At This Usage Rate" at 1.50. This is Torvik's method for rating players. It favors players who get more minutes, so you can't really compare a starter at South Florida with a bench guy at Northwestern.
My interpretation is that Reid is alright and Collins brought him in specifically for ball handling (with scoring) and defensive quickness, which we lacked last year with Leach and Berry. Hopefully (fingers crossed) he is seen as an upgrade for Clayton and will not take minutes from Windham.
South Florida was a bad team this past season (#193 overall), with Reid ranked as their 3rd best player.
His Performance Rating was 1.25 - indicating that he was 1.25 points per game better than an average D1 player.
For comparison, Northwestern's Performance Ratings ranged from Nicholson at 5.24 down to Justin Mullins at 1.68 and Angelo Ciaravino at 1.66. Jordan Clayton played a limited number of games and registered a -0.38, indicating a below average D1 player.
Bart Torvik has Reid's "Points Over Replacement At This Usage Rate" at 1.50. This is Torvik's method for rating players. It favors players who get more minutes, so you can't really compare a starter at South Florida with a bench guy at Northwestern.
My interpretation is that Reid is alright and Collins brought him in specifically for ball handling (with scoring) and defensive quickness, which we lacked last year with Leach and Berry. Hopefully (fingers crossed) he is seen as an upgrade for Clayton and will not take minutes from Windham.
Are people claiming that NU has a huge NIL budget?
I doubt it.
Either way, I wouldn't read much into one transfer.
We all know Illinois typically spends a lot of money - and they haven't signed anybody yet.
Nebraska just signed Pryce Sandfort, who left Iowa.
UCLA landed Xavier Booker away from Michigan State.
Those suggest a NIL war chest.
FWIW- I am a big fan of Randy Newman. I saw him perform at UC San Diego decades ago. He had a musical at the La Jolla Playhouse on campus. Favorite song is “Baltimore”. The Newman family are prolific composers. Many members including Randy have won music awards including Oscar’s for their music composition.
It's not like I've studied a data set, but offhand I'm not thrilled about the notion of a 5'10 guard at the 2 in BIG competition
Some on here has told me that NU was playing big boy ball in NIL now (in the context of discussions about replacing Collins).
Illinois and IU were both heavily pursuing Josh Dix of Iowa. He ended up going to Creighton. Is this the Big East effect of them not having to hold out for football too? Time will tell!
I think the NIL market is through the roof this year. Illinois spent over $4M last year. I’m not sure that gets you more than one or two top level guys this year. It’s hard if you’ve got a roster full of guys with huge bidding markets. I don’t blame them for going to get whatever the market says they’re worth, but if you’re a coach I don’t know how you put up with it much longer.
You sign an extension as quickly as possible - especially if you know or suspect that you can't compete money-wise.
Haha that’s cynical, but maybe true. I dunno.
On a couple of the national guys’ paywall sites and slack channels, several of them mentioned rumors that Collins was really pushing hard for Nova and Maryland but ultimately there wasn’t a reciprocation from those schools and both fizzled pretty fast.
I think that’s interesting, but I don’t think it necessarily means Collins wanted out of NU. Maybe he and his agent were aggressively trying to generate leverage for his extension. Maybe he wanted to see if he could break through his current ceiling somewhere else. My guess is it’s a little of both, that’s usually how these things work.
Maybe he was trying to use whatever leverage he had to help increase NIL and assistant coaches salaries? Maybe he loves NU and is committed to finishing what he started? Taking NU to the Final Four would be incredible.
Yeah anything is possible. “He loves NU so much that he tried really hard to get someone else to hire him” is an unconventional stance, but I’m being tongue in cheek. He’s probably not Willard and Buzz Williams trying desperately to leave, but he’s probably not trying to get his foot in the door at Nova with the sole interest of leverage.
Especially when you’re talking assistant salary and NIL, a coach shouldn’t have to work that hard for leverage to get support there. A good AD will give a good coach what he needs to be successful.
Tell me you don’t know the dynamics of NU athletics, without telling me you don’t know the dynamics of NU athletics…
I think it’s more likely that administrative/academic flexibility was more of a topic of discussion than money items.
I think Collins’ interest in leaving was probably sincere due to the very real ceiling placed on this program administratively. That shows in the fact that he signed a minimum length extension that will need to start being reworked in like 15 months…assume promises were made and that’s just long enough to see if they are being kept.
We are sure how serious CCC was in pursuing other opportunities. Was he aggressively getting his name out there? Was the motivation internal concessions? Is he pissed that Bozo the clown publicly admonished him after poor seasons? I know if got a performance review that the entire company could see where the barriers to success where not acknowledged, I would get my nose out of joint.
CCC’s job is to take care of himself and his family first and foremost. No different than most of us. He should understand his value or lack of value and if he left for a what he perceived a better opportunity, he’s just doing what most of us have done or would do if given the opportunity. He is the best Men’s Head Coach at NU and he’ll continue to be successful if the Administration gives him a fighting chance. We are likely in for a rough season in 2025-2026 and some will be silly and claim we shouldn’t have extended him. We will never know, but I believe he took lowest number of years to keep him in a decent recruiting position without locking himself into a situation where he feels he doesn’t get the support he needs.
Yeah, I have no idea how a business like this works behind the scenes.
It makes complete sense to me that both the coach on the one side and the administration on the other side like the five years on the contract. The coach has some security and his recruits have confidence he'll be there for their career, while the admin isn't in a long term commitment if they have concerns the last few years were a coaching peak.
As for 'taking care of himself and his family' as a conversation, I have trouble following that. The coach is already a multi-millionaire and his kids are mostly grown, aren't they? He could retire and live comfortably on what he's already earned. This isn't about the paycheck imho, at least not beyond the ego-requirement of being seen as competitively paid in his neck of the industry.
It makes complete sense to me that both the coach on the one side and the administration on the other side like the five years on the contract. The coach has some security and his recruits have confidence he'll be there for their career, while the admin isn't in a long term commitment if they have concerns the last few years were a coaching peak.
As for 'taking care of himself and his family' as a conversation, I have trouble following that. The coach is already a multi-millionaire and his kids are mostly grown, aren't they? He could retire and live comfortably on what he's already earned. This isn't about the paycheck imho, at least not beyond the ego-requirement of being seen as competitively paid in his neck of the industry.
The ego thing is big in competitive sports. Sure, he can live very comfortably for the rest of his life. So can every major contract hold out in professional sports. Juan Soto had generational wealth with the Yankees, yet he left for more with the Mets. Not many people are going to accept less than their market value because they don’t need it.
It seems reasonable to expect that Collins was negotiating for more money, but I'd bet the money in question was for staff and NIL with a modest personal salary bump rather than just a gigantic personal paycheck.
If its true that Collins expressed interest and the schools weren't interested, that says something - not about Collins' mindset, obviously.
More of an indication of how he is viewed. Two schools aren't the universe, of course.
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