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FearLeon
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  Message Not Read  Boals 2025-2026 Roster Construction
   Posted: 1/16/2026 11:09:27 PM 
Portal Transfers

PAV-Excellent
Simmons-Good (despite tonight). I bet he hits portal after the season.
Breath-Bad miss. He makes The Upgrade (Searls) from last season look like Jokich.
Conners-Awful miss.
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HS Recruits

Chaos-He’s Chaos, but over the course of his career…he’s a hit.
Kelly-Hit
E2-Massive regression even before injury.
Walking Bucket-Living off one 7 minute stretch against UMASS. Have to grade him a miss, but TBD.
Evans-Epic miss. Eastern Kentucky Community College bound.
Fisher-Evidently is not worth redshirting - and just rides the pine. If you can’t steal some of Sheldon’s minutes then something is lacking here. That’s a miss.
Kauny-Not contributing. Miss.
Sheldon-Miss. It’s criminal he plays 30+ minutes per game. In the portal/NIL era, it’s criminal he’s been on this roster for four seasons and getting Luka Doncic minutes. He should have been told to leave after last season. Sticking with Sheldon for four seasons has been one of Boals worst decisions as Ohio Head Coach.
Mosley- Incomplete…hurt…TBD.

Last Edited: 1/17/2026 11:07:58 AM by FearLeon

#BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT

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M.D.W.S.T
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  Message Not Read  RE: Boals 2025-2026 Roster Construction
   Posted: 1/17/2026 9:54:25 AM 
Hard to disagree.

Boals recruiting classes (rankings not performance) and being a great ambassador of the university have saved him, but we need a good hard look at what’s happening here.

We either can’t coach up the talent we have, or the talent we sign isn’t being scouted hard enough to see the writing on the wall. Neither is good. In both cases, the roster construction is awful. That’s on Boals. No denying it.

We need a real come to Jesus moment because what we have isn’t working. Top to bottom. I’m not fire Boals guy, but I think he needs to be sat down and had a long talk with because in my eyes his time is ticking, in his eyes - I bet he feels 110% safe. A firing, WE can see coming. I bet he’d be stunned. In tremendous need of a closed door meeting.

The whole thing needs a big shakeup.

In the last two games:
Sheldon has played SEVENTY MINUTES. 11 points. 7 fouls. 3 assists. 23% shooting.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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   Posted: 1/17/2026 10:40:33 AM 
M.D.W.S.T wrote:

In the last two games:
Sheldon has played SEVENTY MINUTES. 11 points. 7 fouls. 3 assists. 23% shooting.


This is really baffling to me. After the UMass game -- where both Burris and Conners played well -- and you could feel the impact of their spacing on Simmons and Pavs, it felt like the very obvious play was to give them minutes, let them work through their lumps and build confidence. Instead, 8 and 3 minutes last night respectively.

And that's all in favor of 35 plus minutes for Sheldon.

It's very clear Burris is the best shooter on the team. I have no doubt he's a bad defender. But this team is so desperate for shooting that you have to be open to making that trade off, especially given the fact that Sheldon isn't exactly an elite defender himself.

Just bad coaching.
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spongeBOB CATpants
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   Posted: 1/17/2026 12:04:44 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:

In the last two games:
Sheldon has played SEVENTY MINUTES. 11 points. 7 fouls. 3 assists. 23% shooting.


This is really baffling to me. After the UMass game -- where both Burris and Conners played well -- and you could feel the impact of their spacing on Simmons and Pavs, it felt like the very obvious play was to give them minutes, let them work through their lumps and build confidence. Instead, 8 and 3 minutes last night respectively.

And that's all in favor of 35 plus minutes for Sheldon.

It's very clear Burris is the best shooter on the team. I have no doubt he's a bad defender. But this team is so desperate for shooting that you have to be open to making that trade off, especially given the fact that Sheldon isn't exactly an elite defender himself.

Just bad coaching.


Your logic makes a lot of sense but I think those guys' defense is so horrendous that only 50%+ from 3 is going to save them. I'm talking like can't stop high school kids. Boals sees it in practice every day. If these guys can't stop our own guys in practice, how the hell can they slow down any other halfway decent offense? I obviously haven't seen any practice but that's all I got left lol

I'm starting to put more of the blame on the bench at this point. I know that ultimately is on Boals but I still remember a lot of people were very happy with the offseason additiona.

Last Edited: 1/17/2026 12:06:02 PM by spongeBOB CATpants
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   Posted: 1/17/2026 12:19:02 PM 
spongeBOB CATpants wrote:

Your logic makes a lot of sense but I think those guys' defense is so horrendous that only 50%+ from 3 is going to save them. I'm talking like can't stop high school kids. Boals sees it in practice every day. If these guys can't stop our own guys in practice, how the hell can they slow down any other halfway decent offense? I obviously haven't seen any practice but that's all I got left lol

I'm starting to put more of the blame on the bench at this point. I know that ultimately is on Boals but I still remember a lot of people were very happy with the offseason additiona.


Speaking of the off-season additions -- what exactly did Breath do to see his role so diminished. Can anybody explain that?
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   Posted: 1/17/2026 12:41:00 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
spongeBOB CATpants wrote:

Your logic makes a lot of sense but I think those guys' defense is so horrendous that only 50%+ from 3 is going to save them. I'm talking like can't stop high school kids. Boals sees it in practice every day. If these guys can't stop our own guys in practice, how the hell can they slow down any other halfway decent offense? I obviously haven't seen any practice but that's all I got left lol

I'm starting to put more of the blame on the bench at this point. I know that ultimately is on Boals but I still remember a lot of people were very happy with the offseason additiona.


Speaking of the off-season additions -- what exactly did Breath do to see his role so diminished. Can anybody explain that?


This remains the biggest head scratcher to me. Breath’s past season at UNCG was exactly what we needed.

He had game of 16 points and 10 rebounds against High Point; 9 points, 8 rebounds, and 3 blocks against Furman, for example. He was a starter on a 20 win SoCon team that finished 2nd overall in regular season standings. No he hasn’t eclipsed 10 minutes in 5 games.

Do people really believe he just flat out sucks at basketball now? Boals has completely mismanaged him.

Last Edited: 1/17/2026 12:41:41 PM by FJC31
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spongeBOB CATpants
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  Message Not Read  RE: Boals 2025-2026 Roster Construction
   Posted: 1/17/2026 7:28:34 PM 
FJC31 wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
spongeBOB CATpants wrote:

Your logic makes a lot of sense but I think those guys' defense is so horrendous that only 50%+ from 3 is going to save them. I'm talking like can't stop high school kids. Boals sees it in practice every day. If these guys can't stop our own guys in practice, how the hell can they slow down any other halfway decent offense? I obviously haven't seen any practice but that's all I got left lol

I'm starting to put more of the blame on the bench at this point. I know that ultimately is on Boals but I still remember a lot of people were very happy with the offseason additiona.


Speaking of the off-season additions -- what exactly did Breath do to see his role so diminished. Can anybody explain that?


This remains the biggest head scratcher to me. Breath’s past season at UNCG was exactly what we needed.

He had game of 16 points and 10 rebounds against High Point; 9 points, 8 rebounds, and 3 blocks against Furman, for example. He was a starter on a 20 win SoCon team that finished 2nd overall in regular season standings. No he hasn’t eclipsed 10 minutes in 5 games.

Do people really believe he just flat out sucks at basketball now? Boals has completely mismanaged him.


What does mismanaged mean to you though?
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