Quinton said:
ScottS said:
Crawfoso1973 said:
Even more impressive considering he reclassified to enroll a year earlier. We are so loaded this year.
Did I mention, we are so loaded this year?
We are loaded but our rankings seem low. Is this due to having new players?
I think its pretty strictly based on returning vs replacing production. A lot of these are just who is returning and who was lost, the rankings aren't that researched.
Jon is basically being completely ignored for our prospects.. as is Missi & Nunn. Basically Bu is being looked at as Bridges, Dennis (solidly touted transfer), and unproven talent / new players with Walter leading their view. So most see three players of decent to good talent and then role players. I think that view is wrong but nobody is going to dive in.
And we didn't get one of the ten or so transfers that teams are getting huge credit for (ex. Hunter w/ KU and ironically LJ w/Houston). This is the most talented team with the most upside in the conference (including KU) but potential for a lot of variability and a slower start due to chemistry/flow/scoring/potentially leaning on Walter a bit. I would put the conference as 1) KU 2) BU 3) Tcu/Tex/Hou WVU and K State have decent upside but too many offseason questions to place them.
We do lack some upperclassman punch of the sort that typically carries you through the back half of the season. If I was marking us off for anything, it would be for that, and I think it contributes to our relative lack of confidence with the media.
We have three upperclassmen guys who'll actually play on the entire roster, one of which is a (very talented) transfer who has to acclimate, and one of which is Caleb Lohner with a backloader full of question marks.
On pure talent alone we're one of the five or ten best teams in the country this year. But every meaningful title-contending team was carried by elderly experienced depth late in the year, of which we are sorely lacking. If I have any doubts about this team they lie solely in us asking a whole lot of underclassmen to do a whole lot of leading this year in the toughest conference in America.
