Let’s just get simple
1.) we get to the ncaa tournament …(yes covid.cancelled it) ….amd the follow up after cliff signing we sign these three classes
Class of 2021-Jones and miller
Class of 2022-sinpson., wolfolk and chol
Class of 2023-Griftths ans davis
2.) Everyone gets an extra covid year . We make the ncaa tournment and should have beaten the 2 seed and made the sweet 16. We had a chance to run it back with the ENTIREteam. The entire team . Shoukd have come in the preseason ranked 15. Instead , we start a trend that only Ron , geo and Caleb stick around and we lose key pieces yesr after year to the portal
After 2020-2021…lose Jacob young , Myles Johnson , and Montez Mathis
2021-2022….we didn’t lose anyone , but we do convince Caleb to return….but we could not convince Ron to stay either (and to be fair , at the time is was the Right move for Ron based on where things were…but if this situation happens 2 years later…he either stays at RU for a Big NIL pay day, or goes somewhere else for A big pay day …..it’s not like we actually set the trend and made it happen when the opportunity presented itself)
2023-2023…..we lose Spenser and Mulchay
2023-2024…..we lose cliff
This is reality….we didn’t recruit . And we didn’t retain our best pieces
Now …we sign the class of 2024, and we have a solid follow up class of 2025.. We look very in the game for the class of 2026. Did we solve our recruting issues ? Do we retain Sommervile , grant and Dortch and stsrt a rebuild areoind recruting , player development …and this. requires retention and the backing to do so????
Make no mistake about it. This year with Dylan and ace was damaged because we didn’t recruit the last three years to have progrsm,mature upperclassman around then to share the load….amd what pieces could have been here …we didn’t retain
if you don’t think a cliff and a proper attituded mag as 5th year guys could have helped on the boards and defensively ….(and while we don’t know the story on mag, the issues had lack of NIL origins as part of the issues )……with a frosh front court …..especially with what we replaced them with up front in the portal……and thsr wirh both of them having sone serious offensive limitations , these guys really could have been a major factor.
I just Know what we have next to the frosh….is inadquwte and 10-10 says it all. The frosh don’t have anyone to learn from ….and are being asked to carry a real load
One that the above rant lays it out ……..
