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for the year. Season ending shoulder surgery, just a crushing blow to the Friars

FriarJ wrote:for the year. Season ending shoulder surgery, just a crushing blow to the Friars

yeah. Guess with only 4 games played, he should be able to get a medical redshirt right?

Guess what Cooley said meant more with the suspended freshmen.

Yes, he will be eligible for one. The freshmen; now there is the other problem, rumors flying all over the place that the appeal that is being mulled over right now would have a favorable outcome if they were even allowed to stay in school. You could not make this stuff up if you wished total ill will on this school. Wait til next year has officially become the schools motto. Two phenomenal classes in a row and none of them play. Crazy?

FriarJ wrote:Yes, he will be eligible for one. The freshmen; now there is the other problem, rumors flying all over the place that the appeal that is being mulled over right now would have a favorable outcome if they were even allowed to stay in school. You could not make this stuff up if you wished total ill will on this school. Wait til next year has officially become the schools motto. Two phenomenal classes in a row and none of them play. Crazy?

Wow. If the freshmen don't play and with Dunn gone- the schedule is just going to wear them out. January schedule is brutal.

With Cotton, Batts, Henton, & Harris they'll still cause some damage, but I am a big believer in consistent play at the guard spot if you want to win in college hoops. Cotton now has to worry about controlling tempo and getting others involved instead of just lighting it up. That's a shame. I had Prov. in the tourney this year. This will be a real challenge for them now.

Now the development of Fortune will be even more critical for this season.

Bad break for Providence, I as well had them penciled into the tourney this year. They'll still be dangerous and will steal a handful of games in conference, I just think the grind of conference schedule will wear them down, without Dunn & the freshman they're really only 6 deep rotation wise. A shame really, Cotton can light it up, Batts is a handful, Henton & Harris are good players as well.

I don't know that I had them as a tourney team this year- pretty much I thought everything would have to go right for them. OOC schedule not all that strong meant they needed to go like 21-10 or something like that to have a shot. Thought they were a year away realisitcally.

stever20 wrote:I don't know that I had them as a tourney team this year- pretty much I thought everything would have to go right for them. OOC schedule not all that strong meant they needed to go like 21-10 or something like that to have a shot. Thought they were a year away realisitcally.

Oh, it's not like I had them penciled in for a 4 or 5 seed or something, more like 7-11 seed. With Dunn and the freshman I had them in the 20-11 to 23-8 range(10-3 or 11-2 ooc). Maybe that's just my BE bias though, but I expected a step up from the Friars this year. Who knows though, they could still beat UMass and go 11-2 ooc, then if they could manage 10-8 in conf.??? Will be extremely difficult without those 3 though.

Westbrook36 wrote:

stever20 wrote:I don't know that I had them as a tourney team this year- pretty much I thought everything would have to go right for them. OOC schedule not all that strong meant they needed to go like 21-10 or something like that to have a shot. Thought they were a year away realisitcally.

Oh, it's not like I had them penciled in for a 4 or 5 seed or something, more like 7-11 seed. With Dunn and the freshman I had them in the 20-11 to 23-8 range(10-3 or 11-2 ooc). Maybe that's just my BE bias though, but I expected a step up from the Friars this year. Who knows though, they could still beat UMass and go 11-2 ooc, then if they could manage 10-8 in conf.??? Will be extremely difficult without those 3 though.

well last year they were 17-13 regular season, then lost 1st rd of BET. 17-14. This year even if they miss the tourney, but go like 19-12 and 1st rd loss- 19-13- that would still be a step up to me. Just frustrating since it could have been so much more.