Blue & Gold

I've started toying with my 2-deep for next season already. 😂

In essence I think you really hit the nail on the head in noting that we simply became much too reliant on LCJ. We were not a well-rounded team. I still can't believe how off I was in my enthusiasm concerning Maishe Dailey. What a gorgeous athlete, ideally built for basketball. And in remembering his impressive skill set from high school, I thought Groce's style would be perfectly in his wheelhouse and that he'd become a 2nd Team All-MAC-caliber player. When that didn't materialize we were never the team I was envisioning preseason. Additionally, boy was I wrong about Currie. At 6'8"-6'9" I thought he'd be our staring center from day one. When he failed to earn any PT we suddenly became a very small team; our two true post players each coming in at 6'7". (And neither 6'7" guy was a stretch post player, like 6'9" X was, and like 6'8" Currie was touted to be.) So that also threw me a knuckleball from what I was anticipating preseason. We simply lost too much when we lost three leaders, tenacious defenders, rebounders, and 3-point threats in Cheese (6'5"), Banks (6'4"), and Williams (6'9"). Never were we able to begin to even slightly fill those shoes this season.

Just a nameless student manager.

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There's never a wrong thread for noting that.

Oh, and in case you forgot. BUGS was picked #1 in the preseason media poll. We own them.

I love his hustle and his grit! And his... team-ism. 😂

You're right though. Marshall shouldn't have shot that one. Lol

💯💯 Most likely some sort of COVID issue.

Love it!!! He wanted to take those shots!!!

💯 Reghi just said Marshall plays about 8 minutes per game? That can't be right. Can it? Who would have bet $$ Marshall would be hitting our clutch shots?! Love it! What a great game!

Marshall!!!!

Attack Plowden!

Ali & Freeman foul trouble. Uh, oh. And Plowden is absolutely playing out of his mind.

I was thinking the same. How does Reghi not know our players by this point in the season? Reece isn't a 6'5 hybrid. He's a 6'7" rather one-dimensional post player. Ali is a true hybrid. WTH?

💯 He's on fire

I don't see Dailey or Wynn on the sideline.

Also from GT's article: Looking at the practice field, it’s difficult to not notice 6-foot-6 quarterback D.J. Irons, junior college transfer from Iowa Central Community College. His presence along with Kato Nelson, who returns after recovering from a shoulder injury and is 100 percent for the first time since 2019, and last year's starter Zach Gibson give UA a quarterback room with unique potential.

That’s pretty great getting a MAC Player of the Week AND a player on TDS’s National Team of the Week... from different players. 👀👀💪

I hope. I absolutely HATE our OOC schedule this year. Absolutely ridiculous facing both Ohio State and Auburn when our program is where it is right now. One perennial Top 3 team and another perennial Top 10. Really?!?! This could be laughable and devastating. I’m rather pissed.

Ditto with baseball. I watched our first baseball game online Saturday and it sounded like there were quite a few fans in the stands. I'm gonna try to find my way over there for our Wednesday evening ballgame & see what the situation is.

We hit a grand slam in the first game 💪💪

I was watching online and it did sound like there were spectators in the stands. 💪💪