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The crazy Hurley gets a big time commitment.

The only reason to recruit high schoolers is to build a connection for when they almost inevitably hit the transfer portal.

Ironically...

Still a lot of players in the Portal, but we're #11 after our terrific class. Dru has done well in the past week. Good for him. Something interesting. Akron is 1 spot behind Indiana, who spent well north of $1M in NIL.

I'll let you know once I hear back from SBU.

Glad to hear the turnout was good. The University lacks effective marketing at times but a good spring game turnout shows there's some community excitement for the program. I didn't attend so I'll only be adding some random thoughts. - Would be cool if the University live streamed the game on GoZips.com or YouTube. Just set up some cameras, have a student run the switch (or even just have one camera with no angle changes), and let fans who couldn't attend view it. - WVU had Pat White & Pat McAfee coach their spring game. I wonder if we could get Hixon and Blackburn or some other OG Brookhart guys to come back and participate next year. - Can we move Bullock to TE?

Man, Duquesne is really (Kent yellow) peeing themselves in excitement to induct everyone into their (probably bare) Hall of Fame. Sheesh.

I would certainly agree with this. He's your 7th man that provides a big offensive boost when you need it. Our Jack Gholke.

Tavari. And even if he doesn't play "ahead of" Tavari (at least at first), he'll still get significant playing time. This team only has 2 true PGs - Tavari & Young. Wilson is more of an off the ball guard that can slot into PG in a pinch.

Mahaffey is the only guaranteed redshirt IMO. You can't redshirt Young and risk him leaving without any production in the Akron uniform. Brisco was previously a guaranteed redshirt candidate, but there's a chance he gets minutes with Okonkwo & Lyles. I don't know if MMK is as much of a 4/5 as Brisco seems to be.

3P specialist. Very pure shot with a quick release. We win 2-3 more games minimum last season if Freeman had this type of shot to kick it out to. Teams are going to have a real problem defending against us. Do you push guys off the perimeter like we did to PCCC? If so, that's gonna leave Okonkwo to feast. Do you defend the interior and pray we're cold from deep? You're gonna have Hardman, Harris, Wilson, Young, and Nate Johnson - at minimum - to defend against the 3. That's 5 guys who can shoot the ball above 30% from 3, most of whom will probably eclipse the 35-37% threshold. That doesn't include Gray who will break your jaw with his shoulders on any dribble drives. Tavari has a very clear role defined now as more of a true PG with Sharron Young. Hopefully that takes some pressure off of him and he can play more within himself. The biggest development keys are Lyles and MMK. We need someone to step up on the interior to give meaningful minutes and help out Okonkwo.

Pure sniper. Very natural, quick release. Absolutely huge get to complete the puzzle. We have our team. On paper, it's the best in the MAC.

Greenville, SC, definitely smells better. Love this. Pinky and PCCC have to be sweating a bit.

Thoughts & prayers with our friends in Omaha. Multiple tornadoes including this monster.

My apologies - yes, baseball is in Avon, softball is back at Firestone.

Sounds like he simply didn't retain them on his staff based on the verbiage in the article.

I think he has 3 now.

Pretty incredible, and we still have 1 roster spot left. What I find interesting is how low the ratings were for the players not named Freeman we lost this offseason. Freeman was one of the higher rated players according to SBU's metrics, but our NET is higher ranked than strictly our overall additions.