TitanTiger

Because......?

Sweet. I think this is the best option across the board and I think it will be a nice boost to basketball recruiting.

Most people don't care about that stuff until it costs your team. That's when the criticism goes from just a few traditionalists muttering to each other about "playing with class" and whatnot to lots of folks sounding off at a louder volume. If you can push the boundaries a little and get away with it, it's "fire." If you get tee'd up at a critical moment or ejected in a big game, it's a problem. You can't let them bait you into hurting your team. That would be true of Clark as well. That said some of the reactions to CBM were idiotic and I'm glad Pearl came to his defense.

Pretty sure all the top QBs in the portal were commanding over $1M in NIL money. A couple maybe close to $2M. But @bigbird or @RunInRed might be better on those numbers.

My feeling on the portal QB thing is that Auburn wasn't in position to spend big (or overspend) on one guy and that player be the difference maker, even if the one guy was a QB. We weren't/aren't a QB away from competing for titles. This was a roster with several holes in it that needed an influx of talent and other positions that desperately needed depth. So the money had to be used wisely to build the roster more broadly and I support that approach. I guess if we had unlimited funds for NIL it would be different. But my impression of OTV is that it's healthy and makes us competitive within the SEC and nationally, but not so overflowing with surplus that we can just drop bags for everyone we could want or need. We have to make strategic choices. Maybe once the roster is more stocked, we can focus on a smaller handful of portal guys to spend big on at a position of need. But we aren't there yet, or at least weren't there as of the 2024 signing class.

I'm not sure how much further you could have gone to qualify your statements.

Yeah, he had a good tournament game, but most of the season people were complaining about him and thought he wasn't a viable PG in this league. He made huge strides from last season to this one and I imagine will be even more improved next year. There's zero reason the same couldn't be true of Aden.

I remember a lot of these same things being said of Tre last season. That said, I think you will see some shifting around where Denver runs point more and allows Aden to be more of a shooting guard next year.

High ceiling. The kid is going to get better. His shot will come back and he'll get stronger to withstand contact on drives to the rim. It would be crazy to give up on him.

Murray State Barstool Twitter account already lobbying for him to come there.

Man, that makes me sad. I kinda get it though. Tre, Aden and Denver are all probably coming back and we're adding Pettiford. KD probably wants to play his final season somewhere as a starter and he's not going to get to do that here and his PT might have even gone down.

He just committed to Auburn! WDE!

4-star OT Tavaris Dice commits to the good guys!

It was called fairly even, especially for being on the road. We got whistled for 25 fouls to their 21.

I didn't expect to shut him down. You can't. We needed to keep him around 25 or under to win. He scored 39. Lord have mercy.

I just don't think you can single anyone out. He's been unstoppable no matter who's on him.

He's drilled shots over and over in the face of every person who's guarded him.

Vescovi should have been out

No. Cheney has 5 points in 20 minutes of play. JWill has 12 in 18 minutes. And Cheney has 4 turnovers.

Just frittering this away...

I'm going to murder CBM the next time he tries a behind the back pass in traffic.

After those looks, it was probably a good no-call.

How was that not a foul!

Literally no defender came off to stop that drive?

JWill has been inside that dude's jersey the last two trips and he still drains them.