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RE: Way too early 2023-2024 men's basketball
(03-08-2023 01:43 PM)82hawk Wrote: Who has to leave, who has been around awhile but may move on, who might transfers?
Per Verbal Commits for 2022-2023
Senior - Enoh
Junior - Phillips, Kelly
Soph - MHH, Harvey
Fresh - Newby, Thomas, Farrar, EVH, McGriff
Incoming - Hodge, Ross
Commits - Matthew Moore 6'7" forward
Translating to next year it would seem that Enoh is the only player that will have to move on. Everyone else could remain, with Phillips and Kelly being the oldest of the bunch. IF everyone stayed who COULD stay, i'd have to think we'd be the odds on favorite to win the CAA next year.
The players I hope stay are Kelly, Phillips, MHH, Thomas, Farrar, EVH, McGriff, Hodge, Ross. If Newby stays i'm afraid Thomas gets stuck behind him and moves on, and i'd rather have Thomas. I'm not a fan of Harvey and would rather see Hodge take his minutes going forward.
Thoughts, speculation?
MHH is a Senior who has the option of returning. Since he and Phillips didn't participate in senior night, it looks like they are planning to come back. Kelly is a bigger question, but if he can get some NIL $$ and wants to come back and compete for a championship I think he will be back. I definitely think he and MHH can improve their stock to play professionally with another year first.
It doesn't look to me like Newby is going anywhere. Some here are really down on him. The Coach obviously likes ("trusts") him.
You have to figure that somebody/somebodies will leave , if for no other reason than they see the handwriting on the wall - if you weren't sniffing the court much this year, why do you think next year would be different if almost everyone is coming back? Plus the better players are going to have back-channel NIL opportunities dangled in front of them to round out some rich team's lineup.
There are already 125 or so players in the portal (including Nicholas Timberlake from Towson) , so stay tuned.
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