Hmmmmm....

[hallwins]

I'm still a Sha guy but to keep it balanced,

1) 20 wins means little, 130 teams each year do that.
2) His conference record is 34-44.
3) His BET record is 0-3.
4) Yet to make the NCAA Tournament.

I think Sha needs to improve for sure. For one, he needs to figure out how to land a few reliable shooters that can play defense at an acceptable level to him.

The Kadary departure year we had very little NIL budget.

Last off season, we were recruiting for a good portion of the Portal period with an IOU approach until House settlement finalized.

I am very interested to see how Sha recruits with a full compliment of revenue share money available on the day the portal opens. What skills he prioritizes and who is retained? Sha has not had a legitimate or full recruiting budget available since this madness began.

 

[NIL BAD]

It’s between UConn & Florida for the last #1 seed. Duke, AZ & Michigan are all fighting for the overall top seed. A UConn loss yesterday would have been a nightmare for the conference.

 

[dehere23]

And yes, he had a team that was 4th or probably 5th best in a stronger BE two years ago, that in most years would have probably made the dance. But he also presided over the worst team or one of the worst teams most of us remember last season.

 

[Gritty5837]

There’s good dialogue in here on Sha. Its not all good or bad. It does come back to what @Piratz said in his longer post. Sha has to stop being so stubborn with his offensive approach.

Objectively he’s a mediocre offensive coach. He’s getting paid a lot of money. Its fair at this point to ask why. Don’t blame it all on NIL. His St. Peters teams also struggled offensively.

the encouragement is in him finding a way to get some of these teams to 20 wins but in my opinion this is the ceiling of the program until he adjusts or they get another 5M in NIL funding (not happening)

 

[Gritty5837]

And yes, he had a team that was 4th or probably 5th best in a stronger BE two years ago, that in most years would have probably made the dance. But he also presided over the worst team or one of the worst teams most of us remember last season.

Its a hard tenure to grade. They’ve also played UCONN well in his tenure. If there’s a word to describe the overall tenure it may be “inconsistency”.

 

[dehere23]

Encouragement for me is how he shifted the offseason roster building between the last 2 years. Two years ago, we went with a bunch of former top 100 kids who were young but had not panned out. Kids we would have loved coming out of HS not long ago. The roster was a combination of them and some vets he thought could give good production. After that failed spectacularly, per the Carino/Felt podcast, he pivoted to go with a group that had significant game experience above all else. That obviously worked better. Will be interesting to see the direction this offseason. There will be a million kids out there, so even if you don't have top resources, there are still plenty of choices between kids with different skill sets or who profile as different types of players (e.g., more offensive minded who you will have to coach up defensively, or more defensive-oriented who will need to work on the offensive side).

 

[Hall84]

It’s between UConn & Florida for the last #1 seed. Duke, AZ & Michigan are all fighting for the overall top seed. A UConn loss yesterday would have been a nightmare for the conference.

A nightmare to have the top 2 seed instead of the 4th 1 seed? Really??

 

[Silkcity Pirate]

Encouragement for me is how he shifted the offseason roster building between the last 2 years. Two years ago, we went with a bunch of former top 100 kids who were young but had not panned out. Kids we would have loved coming out of HS not long ago. The roster was a combination of them and some vets he thought could give good production. After that failed spectacularly, per the Carino/Felt podcast, he pivoted to go with a group that had significant game experience above all else. That obviously worked better. Will be interesting to see the direction this offseason. There will be a million kids out there, so even if you don't have top resources, there are still plenty of choices between kids with different skill sets or who profile as different types of players (e.g., more offensive minded who you will have to coach up defensively, or more defensive-oriented who will need to work on the offensive side).

Here is an example of a player we should go after Michael McNair from BU . Ranked 5th national in 3-point shooters by hitting 49.2% of his attempts. .

 

[Piratz]

Encouragement for me is how he shifted the offseason roster building between the last 2 years. Two years ago, we went with a bunch of former top 100 kids who were young but had not panned out. Kids we would have loved coming out of HS not long ago. The roster was a combination of them and some vets he thought could give good production. After that failed spectacularly, per the Carino/Felt podcast, he pivoted to go with a group that had significant game experience above all else. That obviously worked better. Will be interesting to see the direction this offseason. There will be a million kids out there, so even if you don't have top resources, there are still plenty of choices between kids with different skill sets or who profile as different types of players (e.g., more offensive minded who you will have to coach up defensively, or more defensive-oriented who will need to work on the offensive side).

Also during that interview and reading between the lines, it sounded like SHU also stepped in more. He seemed to do it all himself in 2024.