At what position does it make sense to add someone?
At what position does it make sense to add someone ... to the team that's lost 15 games in a row? No one, we're set.
With 2 fifth year guys
Who are charitably not very good. Next year's roster will have Owens, who has not played in a year; Williams, who has not played in a year; Lovett, who has not played in a year; Ahmed, who has never played D1; two freshmen; 4 sophomores who've so far lost 15 games in a row; and two upperclassmen who have shown essentially nothing in 6 years combined. If you don't think that roster could use some experience, I don't know what to tell you.
Experience is on the court. Not watching a Patriot league 5th year senior get your minutes.
Hence why we want a impact player as a 5th year guy. If there are none out there for us then so be it but there are usually some and we should go after them. Granted the better teams with more to offer in terms of expectations will have a better shot but still worth a try to go after them.
Which is why I asked for examples of 5th year transfers into the Big East that made a good impact
That's a pretty restrictive criteria. How long has the rule been effect, three years or something? Louisville is adding a 5th year transfer this year. Evidently Rick Pitino thinks it could have a good impact in the ACC, on a team that's a perennial national championship contender in the best league in the country. Probably though a gritty 7-27 Saint John's team couldn't.
Yea I think the conference they transferred into is pretty irrelevant. Trying to prove your point by eliminating every possible example that people have named. im pretty sure if these guys can play for a top acc team they can play in the big east also.
Exactly what difference does it make if the example in the ACC, PAC 12 or Big 10 but not the BE, do we think the BE can't do what other conferences can?
Furthermore 5th year transfers that are considered successful generally are so because they play for already good teams. Lewis and Lee for Louisville are good players, but their impact at Louisville would be more pronounced then say if they transferred to SJU simply because SJU wasn't very close to being good. Matt Carlino of BYU who transferred to Marquette last year and averaged 15 pg and shot 40% from 3, pretty good right? Who cares? Marquette still stunk. Marquette was not 1 player away from being really good. If he transferred to say Arizona, who knows. See my point.