(08-25-2016 02:18 PM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote: I'll write even slower for you.
How.....do.....you......know.....that.....someone.......else........would.....not....have.....signed......with.....Texas.....Tech........if.....Tubby.....had....stayed?
We are still compiling players here....TT may be as well. You do not know.
You can guess....but your opinion is like a bellybutton. Everyone has one and thinks theirs is nicer than someone else's.
Doesn't mean it really is.
For the LAST time...they only had two scholarships open for 2016.
Clergeot had already signed. Some JUCO was their only other target (may have even verballed).
Unless you are saying Tubby was waiting on some 4* guy to commit in April or pull some stud grad transfer, the roster was pretty well set.
More importantly, if he was waiting on some 4* or some stud grad transfer it would have been nifty for him to maybe bring him to Memphis...
(08-25-2016 02:35 PM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote: You act like losing 2 players is a fatal deal....its not. Memphis lost Austin Nichols and Nick King early this year, and still made it to the AAC tourney final....which is farther than they went the previous year. Team played with more heart....even with several injuries.
NEVER said it was FATAL--dramatic much? Just saying a team that finished 7th in a conference out of 10 teams might take a step back after losing their starting backcourt from a team that only went 7 deep.
Umm, Memphis lost their 1st and 5th leading (not 1st and 2nd) scorers and replaced it with a McDonald's All American and a former 1st team all CUSA player (who ended up being the 1st and 3rd leading scorers)--and still did two games worse in conference. Again, Clergeot is expected to be a last off the bench guy this year.
(08-25-2016 02:35 PM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote: There are other players on that Tech team who had gained experience....and there simply is not telling if a graduate transfer or juco would've signed late with them.
No one knows.
Hell the best late season addition he could get in Memphis (not TT) was some dude who hasn't picked up a basketball in 4 years, yet you are surmising he would have snagged the next Chris Massie had he still been in Lubbock?
Ok.