Zach Loveday Plans to Enter the Transfer Portal

Number 51 nationally and couldn't find the court after 3 years? Even with our dumpster fire front court this year? Strange

This one will always be a strange one to me. He and Kalkbrenner played on the same Louisville AAU squad and most would have said Loveday was better. Somehow Kalkbrenner developed into a more than serviceable big man for Creighton and Loveday never developed one ounce here. Either the player had no desire to grow or this is the first failure in the development of a big by a coaching staff that has previously been very successful at developing bigs.

There is risk behind recruits no matter how many stars behind their names. Following the model of stashing lower profile guys and developing them in order have an "old" team carries the risk of them never developing, even though our staff has been enormously successful carrying out this model.

I think Loveday was a victim of circumstances and bad timing. We recruited him right as we were switching to the no middle, switch everything defense, and he was never a good fit for that.

He'd have probably found a role if we had remained a zone team and used our bigs for more than pick-and-rolls and pick-and-pops on the offensive end. He just no longer fit what we ask our post players to do.