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Confirmation of a return?
You bet your arse. I knew it. Love this kid.
Owens is a bit more iffy, but it'd be a weak move to run from a team that you are such a big part of that has showed so much promise in the last 5 weeks.
I'd also ask Yakwe to stay and take a redshirt.
Why in the world would we continue to use a scholarship on a guy that couldn't find his way on the court when we had 7 players, one of which being Amar Alibegovic. He couldn't get burn over Justin Cole.
He has gotten worse over the past 3 years. He isn't going to get any better and you want to tie up a scholarship for 2 years in the hope that by some miracle he puts it together and contributes 2 years from now. And he even he does get better, his ceiling is still around that of a random JUCO big.
Continuity. Yakwe was a top 75 kid and he lost more than half a season as a frosh. We haven't had a capable big man coach either. The kid went for 16 and 15 against Delgado as a freshman. There is something there that a new coach could tap into.
We lose Clark and Owens after next season, leaving us with two sophs and a junior coming off his first year playing for us in the front court. Do you really want to go into 2019 with Keita, Earlington, and Roberts as our veterans up front?
Pretty sure every sentence there is completely absurd. Let break it down.
Continuity? That's nice in theory but there it's not magic dust. If the team from 2 years ago played together for 10 years in a row they'd never win more than 3 Big East games. Continuity doesn't count for much when the players stink.
Yakwe missed 6 out of 32 games as a Frosh. That is 18.75% of the games. That is far less than half the season.
How many college programs actually have capable big men coaches? There are coaches that work with big men, sure, but I wouldn't think there are too many programs that have true big men coaches.
Yes, he went for 16 and 15 against Seton Hall as a Freshman, but like everybody else on that team, he was generally terrible for most of the season. He had a poor shooting percentage for a big, wasn't a particularly good rebounder and couldn't play D without fouling. Most chalked his terrible FG% up to having no talent around him which was fair at that time, but it has not improved in the following two seasons, in fact it got worse.
A new coach? I assume you mean assistant, but who out there can we bring in that has experience transforming terrible undersized bigs into serviceable players?
With all the ridiculousness in the first paragraph, the second paragraph might be dumber. In this era of college basketball it is impossible to guess what the roster is going to look like 2 years in advance. Assuming that the only bigs in the program at that time are Keita, Earlington and Roberts because they are the only ones on the board now is crazy. What is we pick up another sit-out transfer this offseason? How about a grad transfer 2 years from now? Or a kid who decommits from a school that just fired their coach decides to come here?
The only thing dumber than Yakwe actually agreeing to stay and take a redshirt year is offering that to him in the first place. That scholarship could be better used on a ton of other players