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Transfers are really an integral part of roster management now, and that is only going to get magnified when the sit one rule gets axed. This is the new normal and we either get used to it or stop caring, I guess.
It is interesting the way things are shaking out with OSU. They bring in Sueing because he has a skill set the team lacks and we will really need his offense (the staff has basically been preparing for Kaleb's departure for like a year now). Musa has an injury that puts him on redshirt and into the same class with Duane and Sueing and Ahrens. Two freshmen and a soph transfer, one a guy we were depending on to raise the team's ceiling (Carton), and now we need more offensive talent again and another guard to be a backcourt leader in 2021-2022. Just so happens hometown hero and Ivy League PotY comes home as a grad transfer... with two years of eligibility. Into the class with Duane, Sueing, Ahrens, and Jallow goes Towns. Sotos is the guard we need after Walker's gone and he is a sit one play one... into the same class with him, too! So, yeah, the class balance is lopsided as hell. Besides just graduation, what about transfers or early entries (Liddell possible 3-and-done)? We could lose 7-8 guys after 2021-2022!
Will all these seniors-to-be stick around for 2021-2022? It seems unlikely, but the guys who might have the hardest time finding minutes also seem like guys who just really love OSU. If more scholarships open up, I sure hope we don't use them on one year grad transfers or even one-and-done frosh.
The 2021 class almost needs to be a bit more foundational than that while the 2022 class presents an opportunity to inject some top talent. I do think they may want to add another transfer guard for 2021-2022, someone who can be a junior or senior for them in the backcourt in 2022-2023. But aside from that they should just recruit 2021 HS players.
I don't really know what we are gonna have in the frontcourt when Key and Diallo are upperclassmen. Clearly, we should probably try to add a 2021 big. Efton Reid is the best one we are in on. Is he one and done material, though? If he is, how much does that really help us if he gets drafted more on potential than production? How much would getting Branham help us if he only sticks around for the one year OSU is loaded on the wing? We might be much better off getting a guy like Etienne for a 2021 big and a T150ish wing who might be willing to ride pine as a frosh but has enough potential to be a major contributor as a soph (and praying Brown sticks it out his first two seasons here cuz his role later as an upperclassman should be HUGE).
Stuff shifts constantly in college basketball now so who really knows what our roster or options are going to look like a year from now, much less two years, but it does feel like quite the juggling act going on and I wonder if Holtmann's had a moment to stop and think about how many guys he might have to hug on senior night in March of 2022, haha.
It is interesting the way things are shaking out with OSU. They bring in Sueing because he has a skill set the team lacks and we will really need his offense (the staff has basically been preparing for Kaleb's departure for like a year now). Musa has an injury that puts him on redshirt and into the same class with Duane and Sueing and Ahrens. Two freshmen and a soph transfer, one a guy we were depending on to raise the team's ceiling (Carton), and now we need more offensive talent again and another guard to be a backcourt leader in 2021-2022. Just so happens hometown hero and Ivy League PotY comes home as a grad transfer... with two years of eligibility. Into the class with Duane, Sueing, Ahrens, and Jallow goes Towns. Sotos is the guard we need after Walker's gone and he is a sit one play one... into the same class with him, too! So, yeah, the class balance is lopsided as hell. Besides just graduation, what about transfers or early entries (Liddell possible 3-and-done)? We could lose 7-8 guys after 2021-2022!
Will all these seniors-to-be stick around for 2021-2022? It seems unlikely, but the guys who might have the hardest time finding minutes also seem like guys who just really love OSU. If more scholarships open up, I sure hope we don't use them on one year grad transfers or even one-and-done frosh.
The 2021 class almost needs to be a bit more foundational than that while the 2022 class presents an opportunity to inject some top talent. I do think they may want to add another transfer guard for 2021-2022, someone who can be a junior or senior for them in the backcourt in 2022-2023. But aside from that they should just recruit 2021 HS players.
I don't really know what we are gonna have in the frontcourt when Key and Diallo are upperclassmen. Clearly, we should probably try to add a 2021 big. Efton Reid is the best one we are in on. Is he one and done material, though? If he is, how much does that really help us if he gets drafted more on potential than production? How much would getting Branham help us if he only sticks around for the one year OSU is loaded on the wing? We might be much better off getting a guy like Etienne for a 2021 big and a T150ish wing who might be willing to ride pine as a frosh but has enough potential to be a major contributor as a soph (and praying Brown sticks it out his first two seasons here cuz his role later as an upperclassman should be HUGE).
Stuff shifts constantly in college basketball now so who really knows what our roster or options are going to look like a year from now, much less two years, but it does feel like quite the juggling act going on and I wonder if Holtmann's had a moment to stop and think about how many guys he might have to hug on senior night in March of 2022, haha.
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