Game 22: @Duke 12P (ESPN, 570 AM)

Matt brought in all of the transfers. St Jean and Richmond has brought in no one and Mullin hasn’t been able to close on our HS targets.

I don´t think that the recruiting strategy is Matt only working on transfers (success) and Mullin on HS recruits (failure).

Look at 2019 class: it looks like Achiuwa is the only HS player that we are recruiting. What will happen if we don´t get him and some of our players will leave the team (draft, transfer)?  We will only get transfers again. And some of them will sit out and we will have depth problems again.

I hope that Ponds and Nate Tabor won´t be the exception. And Coach Mullin will keep the promise: going to HS gyms.

You might not have noticed but Mullin doesn't play his freshmen, he essentially sits them out a year just like transfers sit out and the one freshman who's getting floor time this year they didn't find him by talking a ten cent subway to a HS gym in Queens.

It's not 1981 anymore. The talent in NYC is not what it once was and it's certainly not head and shoulders above everywhere else like it used to be and SJ - which was never an attractive destination even then and especially for most kids in NY - is a college basketball irrelevancy. If you think Mullin watching some HS basketball games is going to change that, it isn't.

You might not have noticed but Mullin doesn't play his freshmen, he essentially sits them out a year just like transfers sit out and the one freshman who's getting floor time this year they didn't find him by talking a ten cent subway to a HS gym in Queens.

It's not 1981 anymore. The talent in NYC is not what it once was and it's certainly not head and shoulders above everywhere else like it used to be and SJ - which was never an attractive destination even then and especially for most kids in NY - is a college basketball irrelevancy. If you think Mullin watching some HS basketball games is going to change that, it isn't.

You might not have noticed but Mullin doesn't play his freshmen, he essentially sits them out a year just like transfers sit out and the one freshman who's getting floor time this year they didn't find him by talking a ten cent subway to a HS gym in Queens.

It's not 1981 anymore. The talent in NYC is not what it once was and it's certainly not head and shoulders above everywhere else like it used to be and SJ - which was never an attractive destination even then and especially for most kids in NY - is a college basketball irrelevancy. If you think Mullin watching some HS basketball games is going to change that, it isn't.

You might not have noticed but Mullin doesn't play his freshmen, he essentially sits them out a year just like transfers sit out and the one freshman who's getting floor time this year they didn't find him by talking a ten cent subway to a HS gym in Queens.

It's not 1981 anymore. The talent in NYC is not what it once was and it's certainly not head and shoulders above everywhere else like it used to be and SJ - which was never an attractive destination even then and especially for most kids in NY - is a college basketball irrelevancy. If you think Mullin watching some HS basketball games is going to change that, it isn't.

You buwwied me and hurt my wittle feewings and wuined basketbaw for me, waa waa waa.

Mullin doesn’t play his freshman? That is undeniably false. He’s played mostly freshman since he got here.

Mullin doesn’t play his freshman? That is undeniably false. He’s played mostly freshman since he got here.

There are still plenty of talent in the tri state area

They are being out worked and that is disappointing.

No foady the more i spoke with you and the rest of the mullintards, the more I hated your boy. Couldn’t enjoy the game. For a time I thought maybe the players could overcome coach Mullins. I was mistaken. Your guy is even worse then even I thought.

The little time that both Roberts and Earlington are playing is not because they are freshmen. Remember they were not in any Top 200 list.

Ok, NYC doesn´t have so many good players like in the past. I understand that perhaps we can´t get now Moses Brown or Cole Anthony. But why not interest in players like Jose Alvarado or Keith Williams (11 ppg as sophomore in Cincinnati)?

I think that it is important that Coach Mullin will attend games and speak to the recruits (see Andre Curbelo). ALL the coaches make it. Why not our Coach?

Couldn’t enjoy the game.

Not surprisingly you're completely wrong. In four years Mussini, Ellison, Yakwe, Ponds, Lovett and Trimble have played more than 15 minutes a game and most of those were out of necessity.

There are 11 players from NY in the entire BE.

You know that how?

There are plenty of highly rated players from the NY area who plays in other conferences.

Point is regardless of whether the players are from NY or Texas, the staffs presence on the recruiting trail has been minimal and that is common knowledge.

I sure hope they get the guy who is responsible for so many players leaving.