What do you mean the Italian kid is not happening?  Has it been reported that he's decommitted?

Wasn't Hunger a grad student this season? How can he come back? Replacing Castro won't be easy after a very disappointing season overall. Should have had many more wins and many fewer losses. The nut who picked us to finish first in the A10 must not have known about Caputo's propensity for losing close games!

We need more big men. Like we did last year--and wound up short.
Nonetheless, if this Italian recruit was good and CC obviously wanted him and he wasn't
an academic washout, the Admissions Dept has to stop doing this.
 Wasn't it a transfer from Iowa that CC wanted that was blocked.
Realize it's a tradition to give the coach a hard time on admissions, going back to at least Shawnta's son (in conjunction with Nero abetting) and no doubt well beyond.
And glad we have some standards and student athletes. 
  But we can't handicap the coach relative to other A-10 schools.

Gwmayhem wrote:

When the NCAA decided not to impose a maximum ceiling on the amount of money an individual player can make, resulting in NIL enabling some players to earn millions of dollars a season (for playing 30-40 college games)  as opposed to something that far more resembled the original arguments for paying players (some can't afford three meals a day, it's unfair that they can't play a sport, go to school, and make money at a part-time job), I really thought the charade was up and that "academic standards" would become a thing of the past.  Colleges have become homes of professional basketball teams, somewhere in between "minor league" and "NBA".  Players should be encouraged to attend classes, gain an education, and receive diplomas.  But if that doesn't interest you and you're only on campus to play ball and pick up a paycheck, tell me why that's wrong given the present climate?  Isn't a multi-year stay with GW basketball career training for a future playing (largely) international basketball?

The irony of course is that this is precisely what Elisee Assui was already doing...playing professionally in Italy and getting paid to do it.  Now he gets turned away over academic standards?  Talk about hypocracy.

 "Hypocracy" the evil twin of "democracy" lol. Just messing with you Gwmayhem. Yup, calling that hypocrisy is on target.

I know everyone here knows this, but from now on we’re likely to have a mostly new team every year (unless the transfer rules change). Last year was unusual keeping so many guys here.

It sucks, but that’s what college basketball is now.

It's also worth noting that some of the key guys like Autry and Johnson got run during CC's second year when it was expected that guys would have to sit out if they transferred more than once. Moving forward, I'm not sure we'll see a team where so many young guys get playing time in the new free-for-all era.

At least after this season, roster turnover is not a bad thing. With all the unforced errors and botched alley-oop passes, you almost couldn't tell there was continuity with this year's team.

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I think we are close to possibly getting a couple of bigs (and a wing from Big 12). I also believe we have an overseas kid ready to come who played in the Adriatic League (not the previously mentioned Italian League kid). Stay tuned. 

Wing would be Jayden Forsythe from WVU?