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Thought it would be good to go ahead and start this thread. Lots of questions to be answered this off season. Here are the big ones in my mind.

1. Who is out? We know we have 3 scholarship players (and big contributors) out in Carry, Jacobs, and Thomas. Who else, if any, transfer? So far it's been all quiet, at least as far as I've seen, which seems like a good thing.

2. Who is in? We know we have two incoming freshman in Hunter and Hayes. We know we have 2 scholarship redshirts that will be active in Moss and Bekelja. Then there are the three redshirted walk-ons Carpenter, Maiden, and Entenmann. If nothing changes that is one scholarship to fill before any defections. If the plan was for one of the walk-ons to pay their way for one year then be put on scholarship (Carpenter?) then maybe we don't have any scholarships to fill.

3. Who guards the opponent's best perimeter player? I think most would agree if the season started today Rollins would be the leading candidate. But he's not a lock playing starters minutes. There's almost no way that we'll be as good defensively at least on the perimeter so whoever steps up here could have a path to big minutes.

4. Who becomes the guy on offense? Senderoff's offenses tend to be based on giving the ball to your star and letting him cook. There's been plenty of fair criticism about this ISO system being ugly, but it is what it is. He's a defensive coach whose roots all the way back to his beginnings have been under defensive minded coaches. So I don't see it changing. Just about every team Sendy has had has been defined by at least 1 usually 2 high usage stars. Hall, Walker, Pippen, Williams, Carry, Jacobs. The successful teams have seen guys in those roles that can still be efficient and can make players around them better. Who do we have that's capable of stepping into a role like that? In my opinion Sullinger is the top candidate as he's a strong penetrator. Payton is also a strong candidate especially since his game compliments Sullinger's. I'm not sure about Gio. He's not really a guy that creates for himself. So while he will be an important piece I'm not sure I see him becoming a high usage player.

5. What does the offense become? In my opinion with what we have coming back we're going to need to improve at three point shooting and have a large number of assists for the offense to be good enough.

6. What does the coaching staff look like? Will there be any changes? Seasons like we've had over the last two tend to get coaches jobs and we all know our assistants aren't paid very well.

7. Who is going to be our stretch 4? Sendy likes 4s that shoot 3s. Carpenter and Hunter look like the most likely on paper. Maybe one of the more established guys like Payton or Gillespie can develop a three? Maybe VCD spends more time at the 4? Maybe we add someone?