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Yah, I totally agree. Fred Ban Fleet is struggling mightily with his agressiveness at this point in time...
Originally posted by Aargh
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We're paying Marshall $3mill+. SiU is paying Barry something like $80K. Marshall should be out performing Barry 5 games into the season. <br><br>
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I agree, when you're paying that kind of money to a coach you expect to at least make an effort to try and recruit blue chip players. When the number 1 high school player in the country Josh Jackson was playing here at the tournament here at Hartman, he told KWCH news he liked Wichita State, but no one has ever made an attempt to talk to him. Now maybe there was some NCAA rule that kept that from happening, but the news clip shows Bill Self at the game watching and licking his chops, Marshall was no where to be found, but Kyle Lindstead was there I guess in his place. What I'm saying people is this, we should be using our success to make an effort to try and recruit top 100 players, or start looking at some of the Juco elite to bring on board. Bobby Knight used a lot of Juco players and had success with it. Wichita State has to make an effort to go after blue chip players while our program is doing well to continue keeping us a national powerhouse. We got a good preseason non conference schedule this year, we can't afford to lose anymore games or we can forget about getting some of those teams to play us again or any good basketball conference schools to play us. We can't depend on Sunrise Academy to be our only source of players. And for those of you who say it's only five games, well five games can make you or break you when it comes to tournament time if you had a poor showing on your non conference schedule. We can't afford to lose anymore non conference games. And any of you who want to say I'm being negative, think what you want, I'm being a realist! I'm hoping this was a wake up call to the team. I hope Marshall lets them rest up a day or two before St Louis, especially Ron Baker. This team has looked completely out of sync since Tulsa, I was at that game and we got manhandled. Maybe it's the adjustment to the 30 second clock. It seems like they are having some problems executing their plays in that amount of time. I do know we are going to have to start driving into the lane and creating foul trouble for the opponents if we want to win. I haven't seen much of this at all this year so far. We can't win on perimeter shooting alone. There are some players that need to step up and draw those fouls underneath the basket instead of kicking it back out. I don't mean just the underclassmen, I don't see the aggressiveness in Van Fleet that we saw his first two years when he would drive the lane and draw the foul. He's never been the same since he took that hard knock and got laid out on the floor from Kentucky in the NCAA regional's two years ago in St. Louis. And to the people who will criticize me for my post...I could care less, I'm just calling as I see it. I guess we can agree to disagree. I do want the Shocks to do well this year and have another tournament run, that we can all agree on.
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I agree, when you're paying that kind of money to a coach you expect to at least make an effort to try and recruit blue chip players. When the number 1 high school player in the country Josh Jackson was playing here at the tournament here at Hartman, he told KWCH news he liked Wichita State, but no one has ever made an attempt to talk to him. Now maybe there was some NCAA rule that kept that from happening, but the news clip shows Bill Self at the game watching and licking his chops, Marshall was no where to be found, but Kyle Lindstead was there I guess in his place. What I'm saying people is this, we should be using our success to make an effort to try and recruit top 100 players, or start looking at some of the Juco elite to bring on board. Bobby Knight used a lot of Juco players and had success with it. Wichita State has to make an effort to go after blue chip players while our program is doing well to continue keeping us a national powerhouse. We got a good preseason non conference schedule this year, we can't afford to lose anymore games or we can forget about getting some of those teams to play us again or any good basketball conference schools to play us. We can't depend on Sunrise Academy to be our only source of players. And for those of you who say it's only five games, well five games can make you or break you when it comes to tournament time if you had a poor showing on your non conference schedule. We can't afford to lose anymore non conference games. And any of you who want to say I'm being negative, think what you want, I'm being a realist! I'm hoping this was a wake up call to the team. I hope Marshall lets them rest up a day or two before St Louis, especially Ron Baker. This team has looked completely out of sync since Tulsa, I was at that game and we got manhandled. Maybe it's the adjustment to the 30 second clock. It seems like they are having some problems executing their plays in that amount of time. I do know we are going to have to start driving into the lane and creating foul trouble for the opponents if we want to win. I haven't seen much of this at all this year so far. We can't win on perimeter shooting alone. There are some players that need to step up and draw those fouls underneath the basket instead of kicking it back out. I don't mean just the underclassmen, I don't see the aggressiveness in Van Fleet that we saw his first two years when he would drive the lane and draw the foul. He's never been the same since he took that hard knock and got laid out on the floor from Kentucky in the NCAA regional's two years ago in St. Louis. And to the people who will criticize me for my post...I could care less, I'm just calling as I see it. I guess we can agree to disagree. I do want the Shocks to do well this year and have another tournament run, that we can all agree on.
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