(02-17-2017 08:21 AM)PonyUpTempo Wrote: (02-17-2017 03:24 AM)MemphisTigerFreak Wrote: (02-17-2017 01:10 AM)billybobby777 Wrote: (02-16-2017 11:24 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote: (02-16-2017 11:18 PM)M1T4 Wrote: And you let this Memphis team get out to a 17 point lead on you lol. The talent is more on UConn side than ours. You look stupid bragging right now.
Memphis blew a 17 point lead to the worst uconn team in 20+ years. Lolololol
Wow....looks like Memphis will have to win the AAC tournament to get 3 AAC teams into the dance.
Cheers!
Thats been the story for Memphis all season. We simply have no depth. Good game UConn. We went conservative with about 10 minutes left and completely blew it. This one is on Tubby.
I have heard people on here use the no depth excuse quite a bit....
For some teams...fans get "weak depth" mixed up with "no depth".
This conf will look totally different next year...as teams like SMU, UCONN, UCF et al will be either back at full strength (13 scholarship players) or close to it.
UCF has just 7 eligible scholarship players this season and their win vs Tulsa was just another with just 6 eligible scholarship players after Tank's injury...plus others earlier this year when AJ Davis missed 5 games and BJ Taylor missed 7 games.
With more and more players transferring out/in these days...many coaches will always use some scholarships for transfers (some are able to get 5th year players who can play right away) and while you can never predict injuries...odds are, most teams will face some adversity in regards to that (i.e. like UCONN too).
If a Head Coach has 11-12 eligible and healthy scholarship players on his roster...probably consider him fortunate. (Does any team these days have the 13 max scholarship players eligible in the same season?)
NOTE: UCF Fans received great news earlier this week when Coach Dawkins announced after the Tulsa game that his son, Aubrey, who transferred to UCF this year from Michigan, where he shot 44% from 3 pt range last year, will NOT be on scholarship next year (many coaches and top univ officials get tuition waivers for family members and if this is the case, Dawkins would just pay for room and board)..which frees up an extra valuable scholarship (UCF is in a recruiting battle and is a finalist with Cal, Wake Forest and Vanderbilt for 4-star 6' 11" PF Olivier Sarr from France) to hopefully land an impact player for next year or to use it on another transfer player (Dawkins used 4 scholarship redshirts this year on 4 players coming into his UCF program).