Ok here is the ultimate litmus test. If this kid rejects Duke and North Carolina and ends up following Frank to Umass, we’re going to know we missed out on this kid beyond a shadow of a doubt.
GG Jackson Umass offer…..
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I'd love to have him, and I know Coach Paris would as well, but Frank had to go, even if it means every player on the team transferred.
I was told it's 100% a one year deal w him. So basically from what I've been told that whoever puts together the best NIL package will get him. I think it's worth every dollar to get him. The new coach could really use some positive kickstart to his program.
One time out of ten to the NCAA Tournament is unacceptable, for most Carolina fans.
It's obviously not just NIL. Even the one and done kids want to get that college experience out of their one year. If we have a snowball's chance in hell, it will be because GG is intrigued by the idea of being that hometown hero. Problem is we don't even have a team right now.
Maybe he loves cold frigid weather
Not true, he is an average coach. He just can't evaluate talent.
There are other factors in play here. I was told by a HS player yesterday that G-League Ignite is in serious consideration by GG and his family. Also, we need to let it go about Frank Martin, the transfers and the loss of momentum with GG. Every player on LSU team either declared for the draft or is in the transfer portal. The only person on their roster right now is Trae Hannibal. So, players leaving and developing a roster in the summer is just part of the process for every program.
All the factors include money for the most part. Physical distance to his family/friends is the only factor not involving money. Some in his family believes he would be better off away from the area to make sure he stays away from certain crowds until he's in the NBA. The rest wants him close because well he's family.
Transfers are good. If they don’t want to stay but do, it weakens the team. So go. Same thing with coaches. We’ll play with other players.
I think he can evaluate talent and was, in fact, a very good developer of talent. His issue was that he wasn't good at recruiting blue chip players.
As AdCoop says though, what's done is done, and we can only look forward with Coach Paris now. I sure hope he has some good surprises in the portal waiting for us.
His career record is above .500 so by definition he isn't a loser. I guess if you look only at SEC games he would be a loser.
I look at Tournament (of which there are more than 64 teams in the big dance) appearances. He is a loser based on that!!
Yes, it should be.Any school. Fixed it for you
I still am amazed that any Carolina fan would feel keeping Martin was an acceptable option. To those Carolina fans I would ask: "Don't you like to win?".
Only thing wrong with that is that I didn't write it first.😉😀
It was more the timing for me. Was hoping beyond hope that he could convince GG to stay home. Now we don't even have a team... 😔
No doubt figuratively, except now we literally don't have a team.
That's the norm at schools with coaching changes, it seems.
ever since this damned TRANSFER PORTAL opened its "Pandoras box" of candy!!
What's the Over/Under we get to LSU status.
LSU loses every remaining scholarship player to transfer portal after firing Will Wade
https://sports.yahoo.com/lsu-loses-...-portal-after-firing-will-wade-005625584.html
A moral of the story is: Get your coaching hire right so that you don't have to go through this sh_t.
LSU hired the right guy. He just got caught doing what 90% of the winning coaches do, cheat. Yet here they are having to go through the process again.
That really sounds reasonable - NOT! So you think that destroying the entire program for years to come to get rid of a winning coach who had a very promising recruiting class coming in and some pretty good players returning by replacing him with an unknown coach with a questionable record and having to pay a $3MM buyout was a smart move???? I swear some people don't act like they have the sense God gave a gnat.
Frank was mediocre at best, and was not going to improve. One NCAA in ten years and his fluke 10 day run. Yes, it is best to amputate a toe with gangrene and suffer awhile with that than to let it keep going and lose a foot, then a leg, etc.
Sorry, but I pine to go to the NCAA's more than once a decade, and if coach Paris is as bad as Frank, he can be let go, too.
Before Frank, how many times had we been to the NCAA in the previous 10 years? How about the 10years before that? Frank was capable has he had done it. There were a host of circumstances that prevented it. He had what looked to be a very promising recruiting class coming in. He also had a base of players from a winning team returning. All that is gone now. And for what? A nobody coach who will have no players and we get to pay $3MM for the privilege. You're disappointed in not getting to the final four but once in 10 years? I guess we can expect you to be suicidal over the next 10 years. We won't even be back to where we were in the next 5 years.
So because other coaches weren't successful, we should've just kept Frank? Just because Darrin Horn sucked, that is no reason to cling to a mediocre Frank Martin. And that Final Four run was great, even though it was a fluke. But the rest of Frank's tenure was the norm.
What promising recruiting. Boy, some Frank apologists fell for the okey-doke on this GG thing. The reality was that it wasn’t a given that GG would reclassify to help next year even if he decided to pick USC. So, to me that was a strategy for Martin to squeeze two more years out of based on a hope. Otherwise, this year’s recruiting class has two Under-the-Radar prospects in it. Any coach can recruit to that level.
What promising recruiting. Boy, some Frank apologists fell for the okey-doke on this GG thing. The reality was that it wasn’t a given that GG would reclassify to help next year even if he decided to pick USC. So, to me that was a strategy for Martin to squeeze two more years out of us based on a hope. Otherwise, this year’s recruiting class has two Under-the-Radar prospects in it. Any coach can recruit to that level.
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Maybe but so far the only “recruit” Paris has “brought in” was getting one of those under the radar recruits that signed with Frank to remain.
Meanwhile a lions share of the team has exited. There’s still a lot of time left with the transfer portal, but I need to see something more than a picture with GG and celebrating with the womens team too.
