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Topic: Official Game 18 Thread: Eastern Michigan
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BillyTheCat
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Posted: 1/22/2025 4:31 PM
mid70sbobcat wrote:expand_more
I agree we need a rim protector. I don’t think wiz was and certainly Vic isn’t. This gets back to one of my pet peeves. Boals doesn’t appear to change his strategy given the personnel he has. He’s trying to fit a bunch of Square pegs into round holes.
You say this based on your experience from practice and film evaluation? Asking for a friend.
Somehow, I doubt you have any friends. A "friend" asked I post this.

They thought your insecurity, always needing to be right, and often wrong facts be mentioned.

Don't shoot the messenger.
Someone doesn’t like questions 😎
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Posted: 1/23/2025 12:04 AM
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I had a meeting tonight, and I thought I had the game taped. I didn't. I'm glad I goofed in this instance. Don't want to watch this disaster. I would appreciate a few sentence summary of what happened.

One general question: Does Heath have players with more talent than OHIO? Did he do a better job of coaching in this game? Or, was this just one of those games where the whole team is having an off night and even Johnny Wooden would have gone home with an L?
1. We give up an amazing number of uncontested three-pointers.

2. We don't rebound.

3. Almost everybody in this league is more athletic than we are.
Thanks! Sounds like same old, same old on #1 and #2. On #3, I've felt for months that this wasn't true, that our problems were lack of cohesiveness and chemistry. I'm beginning to think that I was wrong, and that it's just bad recruiting.
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Posted: 1/23/2025 9:19 AM
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So maybe they budget their cash for bigs? We can only speculate what the NIL funds looks like at other schools. I just refuse to believe Boals is that bad of a recruiter.
Not budgeting properly to get the bigs needed is bad recruiting, no?
Until you can point to the NIL dollars these schools have access to and how they are distributed, its all speculation. On3 doesn't seems to have much info on MAC schools but this site does: https://nil-ncaa.com/mac /

According to nil-ncaa.com, it would be easy to believe other schools have more dollars to work with. Now, I'll admit I don't have time to do a deep dive into their methodology so I'm taking this data at face value.

If anybody has a better source of this type of data, feel free to share.
According to this article, the average NIL budget for a mid-major is $291,667. Low majors are less than $100K. It also refers to mid-majors as the Missouri Valley, for example. Low majors are designated in the bottom third of KenPom rankings.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5644106/2024/07/18/colle... /

We were over $200K when I spoke with an AD member in the spring for this season. So, pending on how you view the MAC, we're right about where we were expected to be. Maybe a little lower, give or take.

Would more help? Yea, for sure. However, I don't think this is what's specifically hindering us rather than how we're choosing to allocate what we do have.
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Posted: 1/23/2025 9:37 AM
FJC31 wrote:expand_more
So maybe they budget their cash for bigs? We can only speculate what the NIL funds looks like at other schools. I just refuse to believe Boals is that bad of a recruiter.
Not budgeting properly to get the bigs needed is bad recruiting, no?
Until you can point to the NIL dollars these schools have access to and how they are distributed, its all speculation. On3 doesn't seems to have much info on MAC schools but this site does: https://nil-ncaa.com/mac /

According to nil-ncaa.com, it would be easy to believe other schools have more dollars to work with. Now, I'll admit I don't have time to do a deep dive into their methodology so I'm taking this data at face value.

If anybody has a better source of this type of data, feel free to share.
According to this article, the average NIL budget for a mid-major is $291,667. Low majors are less than $100K. It also refers to mid-majors as the Missouri Valley, for example. Low majors are designated in the bottom third of KenPom rankings.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5644106/2024/07/18/colle... /

We were over $200K when I spoke with an AD member in the spring for this season. So, pending on how you view the MAC, we're right about where we were expected to be. Maybe a little lower, give or take.

Would more help? Yea, for sure. However, I don't think this is what's specifically hindering us rather than how we're choosing to allocate what we do have.
I pointed this out in the Bigs thread I started a couple of months back, but based on the available data in the recruiting forum, Boals and staff aren't even in on that many 5s.

If the NIL were to blame, wouldn't we see a bunch of offers our where we're losing guys to bigger spenders? It feels like we offer 4 perimeter players to every big, and that Boals tries to identify long, switchable wings/perimeter players for his system.

The problem is that he doesn't hit on those enough, and too many of those guys just don't have an impact.
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