I assume they don't want us non season ticket holders joining in?

Another excellent "donuts from a distance" video conference meeting was held today, with over 50 participants present, with lots of questions on all aspects of the program asked.   in terms of scheduling, the general philosophy was to play the highest ranked, beatable teams, but very few names were given for next season other than South Carolina at home and Delaware on the road.   The school is also trying to schedule locally as much as possible.  I suspect we can anticipate American and Howard once again.  Coach had mentioned that Battle has lost 30 pounds, and given the height on the team,  we can anticipate him as a 3 or even a 2.    We can also expect to see some zone defense next season.    I had asked to state who we will be most pleasantly surprised with next season, and the coach and all of the assistants weighted in on this one.  Answers included Sloan Seymore, who is an excellent 3 point shooter;  Matthew Moyer, the transfer from Vanderbilt who Christian said will be a great influence on the younger players.  Bishop was likewise mentioned, along with Hunter Dean (the Southern Mississippi transfer who is eligible in December).   As my own aside, I wonder if Dean would be immediately eligibile if the NCAA changes the transfer rule, or if it is only applied going forward.    Many other great questions were asked, including concerns over Covid-19 impacting the upcoming season, the decline in free throw shooting, the impact of the controversy with the school president, fitness training during the pandemic, etc.    
Florida Colonial...were you a participant?

JC took questions for more than an hour. Hope there will be more sessions like Sunday's. Great way to get information on the team. Very classy of JC and the staff. I thought they did a good job of addressing every question asked. They didn't skip any questions. I especially liked the discussion of why JC treats players the way he does. He says you need to get the best players so that means you have to make tough decisions. And he  also talked about how he doesn't yell and berate players. That is refreshing. It is sad watching college coaches lose their minds yelling at players.

Gwmayhem wrote:

3) If Bishop was an answer to who we will be pleasantly surprised by next season, does this mean that the coaching staff is counting on his being eligible to play?  Or, is this more like "assuming he is eligible."

I came into the chat about half way in so I don't remember all of the answers to the questions you asked but for this one Assistant Coach Graham Bousley said that a waiver has been filed and they are fairly confident that it will be granted.  There was no attempt at hedging his answer.  He said they have had luck in the past getting waivers granted and almost made it sound like they would not have taken on the risk if they were not confident in the waiver being granted.  Who knows how long it will take and whether it will be granted in time for the first game of the season, but definitely the coaching staff is acting as if Bishop will be immediately eligible.

 

Last edited by GW0509 (4/27/2020 11:53 am)

Battle lost 30 pounds?  That’s a lot.

Do you know when that’s from? He wasn’t heavy to begin with so maybe that’s 30 pounds since he got to gw and some of that was before this past season.

Assuming Bishop plays, think about how tough it will be to guard us on the perimeter if we have Bishop, Battle, Jack, and Seymour our there together.  Or Nelson (though his three isn’t where the other guys are, but his slashing is amazing).

I thought that number of pounds sounded high also, Free.   I am not sure when the starting point of the weight loss was, because I don't believe he could have lost that much weight since the end of the season.

BM wrote:

Hunter Dean got the vote from one of the coaches for the biggest surprise for next year as a strong above-the -rim player.

They said it'll be hard to social distance after his dunks because we'll all be trying to high five each other.

Last edited by GW0509 (4/28/2020 10:27 am)

I was on the Zoom with Jamion; here is what he said about 3 questions raised here:

-- We will likely play some zone because JC feels we have the right guys to do that especially with the transfers
-- He sounds pretty confident Bishop will be eligible next year and will start at the point.
-- Battle lost 15 pounds.

Thanks for posting

jmoiii-- I suggest you contact Jen Montgomery, Executive Director of Development for the Athletic Department. She could discuss your idea.