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(05-25-2016 04:34 PM)HeadsetGuy Wrote:  For a game that allows only one ball and 5 players playing at a time...when ODU doesn't have 99 incoming players, it really seems to fan the flames...
I don't get the anger and vinegar...we have a coaching staff that has a plan, whether at your pace or not, to maximize its resources (schollys) in the manner they want. The absurd venom that is spouted about the 14th or 15th man, especially when 100s of transfers are available each year is unwarranted. If ODU had used every scholly and the players never left the bench would 244 pages of commentary be dedicated to that?
Recruiting is different today than even 5 years ago, transfers and high quality JUCO kids are readily available, the old adage that transfers are just someone else's problems in a new uniform is moot.
I've personally heard a multiple NCAA champion coach say on several occasions that the dumbest part of college MBB was the oversized rosters, and I for one fully agree (for both men and women basketball, Title IX and entitlement issues aside).

This thread like most of our recruitment threads bears a ugly resemblance to the JMU conference rumor threads..."blankedly blank coach/admin/school doesn't see things my way so I will sully the world with my venom".

This would be a well reasoned post if we didn't have glaring holes that those two empty scholarships could be used to fill. Last year we lacked depth severely, but yet the staff failed to use all of their scholarships. This year we are one shooter short and 1 deep at PG, and again the staff has two scholarships in its pocket.