Baylor Adds Center Tegra Makabu to 2026 Recruiting Class

Crawfoso1973 said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Crawfoso1973 said:

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I love we are back to developing and stashing players.

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Me too. The Scott Drew redshirt pipeline has always been a successful one.

I love grabbing guys with no expectation of immediate playing time who are coming to Waco specifically to develop their skills and try to get better.

We've turned a lot of those guys into gritty, blue-collar contributors over the years.

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Yes. We do run the risk of other programs poaching our players after we developed them. But that risk is preferable to guaranteed 100% roster turnover every year.

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With the vast array of injury issues that Baylor MBB has faced the past few seasons, not sure how anyone can argue (not you, others) against adding short term emergency depth that is also long term development potential.

watching Dead Leg Baylor shooting bricks in the last third of conference play is getting old.

Adriacus Peratuun said:

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Crawfoso1973 said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Crawfoso1973 said:

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I love we are back to developing and stashing players.

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Me too. The Scott Drew redshirt pipeline has always been a successful one.

I love grabbing guys with no expectation of immediate playing time who are coming to Waco specifically to develop their skills and try to get better.

We've turned a lot of those guys into gritty, blue-collar contributors over the years.

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Yes. We do run the risk of other programs poaching our players after we developed them. But that risk is preferable to guaranteed 100% roster turnover every year.

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With the vast array of injury issues that Baylor MBB has faced the past few seasons, not sure how anyone can argue (not you, others) against adding short term emergency depth that is also long term development potential.

watching Dead Leg Baylor shooting bricks in the last third of conference play is getting old.

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This team would seem to be deeper, as we're 10 or 11 deep with guys that could conceivably get minutes. Iguodala is the 11th man, and all 10 ahead of him are rotation quality players -- assuming Perez and Soyoye are developing as described.

I don't think any team is going to be much deeper than 11 or 12 scholarship quality players in the modern era because no one with rotation aspirations is going to sit around to be the 12 or 13th man on any team. They'll just transfer to somewhere where they can go play.

bear2be2 said:

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Adriacus Peratuun said:

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Crawfoso1973 said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Crawfoso1973 said:

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I love we are back to developing and stashing players.

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Me too. The Scott Drew redshirt pipeline has always been a successful one.

I love grabbing guys with no expectation of immediate playing time who are coming to Waco specifically to develop their skills and try to get better.

We've turned a lot of those guys into gritty, blue-collar contributors over the years.

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Yes. We do run the risk of other programs poaching our players after we developed them. But that risk is preferable to guaranteed 100% roster turnover every year.

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With the vast array of injury issues that Baylor MBB has faced the past few seasons, not sure how anyone can argue (not you, others) against adding short term emergency depth that is also long term development potential.

watching Dead Leg Baylor shooting bricks in the last third of conference play is getting old.

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This team would seem to be deeper, as we're 10 or 11 deep with guys that could conceivably get minutes. Iguodala is the 11th man, and all 10 ahead of him are rotation quality players -- assuming Perez and Soyoye are developing as described.

I don't think any team is going to be much deeper than 11 or 12 scholarship quality players in the modern era because no one with rotation aspirations is going to sit around to be the 12 or 13th man on any team. They'll just transfer to somewhere where they can go play.

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You miss the point.

There is a vast difference between having players 12 & 13 available (as needed) each season and retaining them the following season.

Changing term life insurance policies annually doesn't negate their existence for the year they are in effect.

That's a pretty good size youngster and maybe he's still got some growing left. Get up to 6'11 or 7' would be even better. Didn't we have a big player grow a few inches between freshman and sophomore year and get beyond 7'?