It's easy for us to say that now that we're free(er) from these issues.
But Lashlee is only correct if you have resigned yourself to the idea that you'll never be competitive, never move up, and never have substantial interest from anyone other than your own alumni.
Would fans of those four schools, if they have given up all hope, enjoy a competitive playoff more than a meaningless bowl? Yes. But that's just joining FCS with more scholarships available. Anyone could have joined FCS any time. If you haven't given up hope, it's disgusting.
I do think there could be room for some kind of play-in structure where a G5 tour agent champion ends the year playing a main playoff team that loses in the semi-final or something. Could generate interest and, since a bunch of the P4 school players will sit out, some Cinderella wins.
5/10 Update
1. Rondel Walker - 6'5" 180 Sr., wing
2. Matt Stone - 6'4" 200 Sr., wing
3. Moulaye Sissoko - 6'10" 250 Sr., post
4. Alex Cotton - 6'5" 195, Fr., wing
transfers
5. Johnathan Massie (Longwood) - 6'6" 190 Sr., wing ... 11.3ppg, 5.2rpg, 35% 3pt%
6. Jasper Floyd (Fairfield) - 6'3" 195 Sr., guard ... 9.5ppg, 5.9rpg, 4.1apg, 2.4 steals/game (9th in nation)
7. Latrell Jossel (SFA) - 6'1" 185 Sr., guard ... 12.9ppg, 2.3apg, 37% 3pt%
8. Brock Vice (Creighton) - 6'10" 245 Fr., post ... redshirted '23-24 season
9. Atin Wright (Drake) - 6'1" 185 Sr, guard ... 14.1ppg, 40.6% 3pt%, 38 steals
10. Grant Newell (Cal) - 6'9" 220 Jr, post ... 5.5ppg, 3.5rpg, 30.5% 3pt%
11. Brenen Lorient (FAU) - 6'9" 200 Jr., post ... 2.2ppg, 1.3rpg, 13 blocks
freshmen
12. Tyron Mason (Plano) - 6'6" 185 Fr., wing
- my best guess on a starting five / rotation
1. Jasper Floyd
2. Atin Wright
3. Rondel Walker
4. Johnathan Massie
5. Moulaye Sissoko
Jossel will be a primary bench scoring option. I think Mason and Cotton will be fighting for for the same minutes at the 2/3. Stone will still get minutes kinda across the 2,3,4 spots for stretches...more if neither Mason nor Cotton show they can contribute and lock down a spot. I think Newell and Lorient are enough size/length/athleticism to get by as sort of a combo 4/5 off the bench. Vice's development is a wild-card, but if he shows anything we already have more depth inside than last season.
I'm sure some here still want more size, but if we do spend the last scholarship, man I hope it's on a point guard. Floyd looks like a legit 1, but based on numbers Wright and Jossel look more like 2s...and while maybe they can handle, their strengths are as scorers. lack of PG depth hurt us more than lack of size/Sissoko-struggles.
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