I completely agree.  Once GW and other schools get past the sticker shock of paying players, the new rule with a 20.5 million cap on direct payments is actually great for motivated basketball only schools. 

Whereas Power 4 football schools are going to spend upwards of 75% of that on football, basketball only schools can spend as much as they want. 

Now those football schools are also generating so much more to make these payments, and they’ll direct even more from NIL collectives, this puts us on a much more level playing field when it comes to recruiting.  We’re still not going to get the top top talent, but we’re in a much better place. 

It used to be that we would lose recruiting battles to larger conference schools who had greater television/media opportunities, and who had ways of providing benefits in perhaps some shady ways. Now, it’s all about money for the players. And there’s nothing that stops us from matching What other schools are spending if, and it’s a HUGE if, we have the desire and fiscal fortitude to do so. 

That’s not to say that we will, but with it now being not only legal, but basically required to pay players to stay in the A10, we can match what those other schools are offering to very good players, both in the transfer portal and also coming out of high school.

Don’t kid yourself that our recruiting success in this year‘s transfer portal didn’t have something to do with our ability to pay players. Clearly we have made some kind of commitment or we wouldn’t have seen the kind of influx of talent that we have seen. And as a fan, I kind of love that.

I keep reading on here that the sky is falling, and I just don’t see it.

Free Quebec wrote:

He was the player to be named later in the Max Edwards trade.

I think he fits really nicely.  Was Duq’s highest usage AND most efficient player, which is something you don’t always see.

I love that! This feels like a really important to get for us.  Outstanding shooter, tons of experience at the college level, knows our league and our opponents.

Not sure how to handle the fact that we now have three guys named Trey/Tre. 

In any case, this feels like really great news.

If you listened to the 3-Bid League podcast, I would say their serious love of URI might have been heard by Fordham.

Serious motivation, perhaps?

Not taking a side on this, because I don’t know enough about other players in the league. But, my recollection from 20 or 30 years ago was that the All conference first team was simply the five players who received the most votes, and not necessarily the five players who led their positionsim votes.

Is anybody in the know about the process?

Watching today’s game, it sure seems like he belongs on the first team, even if it means there are two center/ forward bigs on the team.

If anyone is interested in my two seats for the game, please let me know. Can’t make it and happy to donate them to friendly message board members.

DM me if interested.

(seats are in the single row overhang in the west end zone, just below the track)

Have you seen what the Sun Belt is doing?

This is crazy but might be brilliant marketing and give the conference a better chance at getting an upset win in the NCAA. 

https://www.sbnation.com/2025/1/24/24349710/sun-belt-royal-rumble-conference-tournament

I don't know for sure, but a friend told me they heard or saw on the broadcast that Jun appeared to be taunting (in the eyes of the ref), but that it likely was just his enthusiasm that made it appear that way.  

MVCOLONIAL wrote:

Let's hope he exceeds our expectations.

Jun or Dude?

Mayhem (and all), hello.  Last season I considered doing some online marketing to attract fans to the site.  It started as an idea when I was sitting at a game and there were two GW fans, Dads with their young children.  These kids were shouting out the funniest and loudest cheers and insults (about the other team), and I was loving it.  I asked the two men if they were on the GW Hoops board, looking for a connection of sorts.  Instead, I got a response that they didn't know anything about this site.

They were interested and I showed them the site on my phone.  I can't say if they joined us or not after that.

My point is that we have a brand problem (not the team, well them, too, but this site).

I also considered that the George's Army was represented on here with only a few students, from what I could tell.  Is it that the students don't know about us, don't care about a bunch of "old guys" talking about hoops, or have they been here and find us offensive?  I honestly don't know, but I could see any of those being issues.

We also are not endorsed in any way by GW Athletics.  I'm guessing members of the staff are lurkers, but I also imagine that there is likely some kind of edict that Athletic Department staff are not allowed to post.  And yet, from a PR standpoint, I believe our site can be useful to GW's promotion of the program.

And then there is the antagonism of the board.  My greater purpose in trying to keep things civil was that I felt (feel) that when there is no other voice talking about GW Hoops, we become the ONLY voice out there.  That can be powerful, and I still believe this to be true.

For me, I continue to encourage folks to join the conversation on here, I talk positively about GW basketball whenever I can, and I have season tickets for myself, +1.  It's rare I attend alone, simply because I try to invite GW connections who aren't actively following the team.  I discovered a couple of days ago that one of my board members at my

The Dude wrote:

The next 2 years are not make or break, they are for CC and the Squad, but not the program that's pretty absurd but on this niche fan site the absurd is the norm

CC and his Staff I 100% believe will be a success, if they are not the program and life goes on, worst case the next man will get his crack, the best case CC and Squad turn this thing all the way around, and he stays a long time or we lose him and the next guy inherits a turned around program

Mojo inherited a Chernoybl mess, Penders inherited the best decade in the history of the program, GW Basketball is a lot bigger than 1-2 years. The potential for sustained success is there, but its very difficult and if you want sustained success and first, a full turnaround, donate $ to the NIL and buy season tickets

Sky is falling paranoia doesn't help one bit but I guess its predictably slightly amusing?

 

Dude, for the first time in a while, I mostly agree with your take on the program. I have no delusions that we will  be elite, but I also do not see us leaving the Atlantic 10. I don’t see us dropping down, as some here have said. And I do believe that we can achieve sustained success as a program, at least as a top of the A10 level.  Not that we will…but I’m open to the possibility that the new direction of the athletic department and university may make a difference.   

Where you have lost me, though, as you have many times in the past, is in your assumption that us giving NIL money is going to do anything in the grand scheme of things to fix a very broken system.

We are lacking several things that will cause us to stay where we are and never move into the elite level, regardless of any NIL money we give.  It is a veritable, arms, race, and best any growth and resources we have are going to be matched by the more funded programs. 

We lack a football team, which means there’s no revenue coming in to support the rest of, or in our case, all of the other teams. Everyone in