Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS
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Fite has been a guy who'll take a transfer or two (Kiyon Hardy and Rashon Johnson recently), but has made his mark developing high school players. I think that might have to change some in the future. He's already recruited a promising high school kid this year, but he'll almost certainly have to get a couple of transfers in if Ship is to be competitive at all next season. Replacing a group that included all-PSAC East and all-region players with four freshmen will not cut it. The current roster has several guards and a couple of swing players with nobody much over 6-3. A couple of big guys with decent skills should be able to step right in and play.
Yeah, Alston was considerably more polished offensive player than Sulaiman when he transferred.
It's really upheaval in the entire college basketball world right now. You could probably attribute some of the upsets in the NCAA tourney to that. I certainly didn't expect Purdue to lose to Fairly Ridiculous, but their freshmen guards had been bottoming out toward the end of the season, and freshmen guards aren't a good thing to have in the tournament. What we're also finding out is that some of these guys making the big bucks coaching at major conferences can be outcoached by guys making far less at the small schools.
It's interesting, if sometimes distressing.
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