The NEW Official Thread of the Augustana Vikings

[MrAugustana]

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Came across this on the Augie men's basketball Twitter feed and thought it was entertaining (as were some of the replies):

There have been a lot of really good players during the Coach B era, but who can build the best team from these players?

(If the photo/image doesn't load for you, you'll probably have to click this link: https://twitter.com/AugieMensBball/s...99298429419521.)

[Moorhead123]

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Since the board is dead right now anyway, here are a couple of highlight videos of incoming Viking guard Matt Todd for any Viking fans interested. As we all know, highlights are obviously the best way to assess a player and the likely impact he will make. Despite that sarcastic comment, I'm excited nonetheless:

High school highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=s3XBYJjOr98

Juco highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLThnazZmqs

Seems to have solid court vision passing-wise and a quick release on his jumper. I'm looking forward to seeing what he brings to the table for the Vikes in a few months when the season starts again. We're already only 4 months away. Hooray!

He will be a very good pg at Augustana. A little small, but more than enough skill and quickness to make up for it. May drive teammates a bit crazy at some points of game, if he gets into too much 1on1 stuff, but good definitely outweighs the bad. Good pickup, augie should be very good this year, if healthy.

[MrAugustana]

Re: The NEW Official Thread of the Augustana Vikings

Since the board is dead right now anyway, here are a couple of highlight videos of incoming Viking guard Matt Todd for any Viking fans interested. As we all know, highlights are obviously the best way to assess a player and the likely impact he will make. Despite that sarcastic comment, I'm excited nonetheless:

High school highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=s3XBYJjOr98

Juco highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLThnazZmqs

Seems to have solid court vision passing-wise and a quick release on his jumper. I'm looking forward to seeing what he brings to the table for the Vikes in a few months when the season starts again. We're already only 4 months away. Hooray!

[vikingfaithful]

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I29 ASSEMBLE

https://twitter.com/BlairKerkhoff/st...118546944?s=19

With AU that would be 7 schools on I29. If only we could get the Maroon Chiefs to...never mind.

[Augieholic]

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I29 ASSEMBLE

https://twitter.com/BlairKerkhoff/st...118546944?s=19

[laker]

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Do not see milk, although a candle is present.

Upon further review- the call is overturned!

[vikingfaithful]

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Do not see milk, although a candle is present.

[laker]

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You can tell that this isn't my place because the milk would have been chocolate.

[DapperDan]

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And to get a balanced schedule add somebody in Montana.

[Moorhead123]

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D2 is also getting watered down by NAIA schools moving to D2 with scant amount of resources.

[laker]

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What is the next step in realignment?

PFW going to the Horizon? Augie being their replacement in the Summit? Some other scenario that we haven't thought of yet?

[vikingfaithful]

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I tend to agree. There are getting to be too many also ran low major DI schools. Sooner or later power conferences are going to start paying players at which point everybody else travels in steerage. Maybe then some schools will start to think about dropping back down.

D2 is also getting watered down by NAIA schools moving to D2 with scant amount of resources.

[DapperDan]

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As far as schools making the move from D2 to D1, add Bellarmine to the list:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...g-atlantic-sun

Bellarmine, who does not have football, is moving to Division I beginning with the 2020-21 school year and will become a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The school will compete this year for a final season in the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference.

The non-football deal seems to be the ticket for the reach to the brass ring now. Most cash strapped schools figure they can come up with a handful of good basketball players now and then but know their clocks would be perpetually cleaned in football. There was talk on this board about St. Thomas pursuing a waiver for a quicker journey to DI which was scoffed at by some. Charlie Walters added some wind this week saying UST would argue for a waiver because they were kicked out of their conference. It was said that they too would de emphasize football and try to become the likes of a Marquette, Creighton et al.

[NSU4LIFE]

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I tend to agree. There are getting to be too many also ran low major DI schools. Sooner or later power conferences are going to start paying players at which point everybody else travels in steerage. Maybe then some schools will start to think about dropping back down.

See "New NSIC" for my theory/prediction

[DapperDan]

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Man...it's sad in the sense that that's kind of a name you think of when you think D2 hoops over the years. Just seems to play into my theory of what is coming down the road as far as classifications go.

I tend to agree. There are getting to be too many also ran low major DI schools. Sooner or later power conferences are going to start paying players at which point everybody else travels in steerage. Maybe then some schools will start to think about dropping back down.