"He joins a potentially crowded backcourt with many potential contributors. Providence transfer Makai Ashton-Langford will be eligible next year. His brother, DeMarr Langford Jr., comes in as a top 100 recruit. Wynston Tabbs showed promise his freshman season before suffering a knee injury and missing all of this past year. Jay Heath is coming off a tremendous freshman season."
Post by reindeerfan on Mar 29, 2020 21:42:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure this will prove to be a good decision for Kelly. Better to play 30 minutes a game on Quinnipiac in my view. I hope he gets the playing time he wants.
I'm not sure this will prove to be a good decision for Kelly. Better to play 30 minutes a game on Quinnipiac in my view. I hope he gets the playing time he wants.
Worse value in things than a graduate degree from BC - btw. It's also a pretty nice place to go to school.
I bet Kelly gets plenty of minutes. He's good. BC couldn't hit the broad side of a barn last year from 3. They had one guard at 37%... who also shot 55% from FT.
Some guys have competitive streaks and they want to test themselves. Some guys want to play a few games vs. Duke/Louisville/Florida St./UNC/Syracuse/etc.. They get one shot at this... and another season of 1200 fans in the Quinnipiac ice arena... good times... but maybe they are ready for another experience.
He joins a potentially crowded backcourt with many potential contributors. Providence transfer Makai Ashton-Langford will be eligible next year. His brother, DeMarr Langford Jr., comes in as a top 100 recruit. Wynston Tabbs showed promise his freshman season before suffering a knee injury and missing all of this past year. Jay Heath is coming off a tremendous freshman season.
I'm not sure this will prove to be a good decision for Kelly. Better to play 30 minutes a game on Quinnipiac in my view. I hope he gets the playing time he wants.
Worse value in things than a graduate degree from BC - btw. It's also a pretty nice place to go to school.
I bet Kelly gets plenty of minutes. He's good. BC couldn't hit the broad side of a barn last year from 3. They had one guard at 37%... who also shot 55% from FT.
Some guys have competitive streaks and they want to test themselves. Some guys want to play a few games vs. Duke/Louisville/Florida St./UNC/Syracuse/etc.. They get one shot at this... and another season of 1200 fans in the Quinnipiac ice arena... good times... but maybe they are ready for another experience.
Very good point, a graduate degree from BC is something to be proud of and could really help him later in life. And it is indeed a nice campus in a semi-rural setting yet only a short walk to the transit system (T.) that can give him direct access to one of the great cities of the country and world. So those are things to value and I'm sure he took them into consideration in his decision. Basketball-wise, certainly his role will be different than it would have been had he returned to Quinnipiac as 'The Man,' I think he understands that. But he surely will be an important contributor to the Eagles even with the fact that he will be part of a team of better guards and players than what he was used to as a Bobcat. Sure his numbers in PPG and assists will most certainly not be the same. BOTOH I feel he has the talent and the smarts to play an important role in helping BC improve from what they have been even while seeing his playing time reduced from where it has been his first three collegiate years. I look at it as though it might turn out similar to the experiences that Sacred Heart's Cane Broome and Quincy McKnight had in their transfers to a higher level (Broome-Cincinnati, McKnight-Seton Hall) where both those guys saw their time on the court and averages drop yet at the same time became important contributors to their teams while at the same time garnering a lot more national attention than they ever would have had with their former team.
The discussion about the value of a BC graduate degree may not apply. Not sure in the case of Rich Kelly, only time will tell. The facts are, approx. 90% of the players who go on to finish their eligibility as a graduate student DO NOT finish their graduate studies. At the completion of their athletic eligibility they do not graduate with a second degree from their second institution.
The discussion about the value of a BC graduate degree may not apply. Not sure in the case of Rich Kelly, only time will tell. The facts are, approx. 90% of the players who go on to finish their eligibility as a graduate student DO NOT finish their graduate studies. At the completion of their athletic eligibility they do not graduate with a second degree from their second institution.
Well that may be and perhaps Rich won't finish that second year. But then again maybe he will be the exception. He obviously is a good student and values his education considering he is getting a degree from Quinnipiac in only three years. Anyway if he had remained in Hamden as a Bobcat to play a year as a graduate student, basically he would be in the same boat education-wise. Get a second degree there or give it up, something I am predicting the former even if it involves a couple of extra years and maybe some on-line type classes while he pursues what I am sure is his desire to play professional basketball somewhere in the world.
4 schools in 4 years is quite the nomadic run for Flavors. But... if his dream is to play in the Pac-12 (maybe Washington or Washington St.) he probably has a chance to get it.
Flavors will finish his career at Oklahoma State in the Big 12. They aren't a very high-powered offense. Their 3-point shooting was not good, so I could see where Flavors would be very attractive to them.
I guess a nice pick up by MC. Diablo might have been a bit over rated coming into UMASS. Was 6 pts/ game and 6 rebs per game over last two seasons at UMass.
And this article doesn't even mention the new immediately eligible NCAA rule that we know will be put into play either this year or next, surely something that will accentuate the problem even more for coaches. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is for the foreseeable future, so it's either adapt and get ahead of the game or else fall back. I hope the Stags and Jay Young work hard and are smart enough to use these changing times to their advantage.
I do have a comment on some of the players who have been able to move up to big programs from the low-mid level leagues such as the MAAC, NEC, Ivy, etc. It seems that up until maybe five years ago moves like this were rather rare. Not so much any more. Just in the MAAC alone almost every school has watched at least one very good performer leave for perceived better pastures. That includes the Stags too when Curtis Cobb left for UMass. Also have to include Ferron Flavors who now will be playing for Oklahoma St. even though he first went to a low major school immediately after leaving Fairfield. But when you consider the pure quantity of these kids who leave and the fact that many (but not all) experience some success at their new locals even if in different roles where they are not stars, I think what this says is that, although sometimes put down as a league (talking MAAC here obviously), some of the talent we are watching from year to year is pretty damn good. Indeed the entertainment, even if happening before reduced crowds and excitement (probably a good thing for next year BTW), is excellent. So that's something to consider when we (hopefully) return to watch the Stags and their opponents compete against each other next season.
As coach marshall indicates coaches will need to switch to an "immediate mentality " as they build a team for the very next year, rather then a "future mentality" to build a sustainable program. I still feel the transfer portal and immediate eligibility rule once passed by the NCAA has to benefit the power conferences more then the mid majors? Only a gut feeling that will prove to be wrong or correct over a period of time.