2024-25 Season

[gtmoBlue]

Hey all...

Here's a late 2024 NCAA Basketball Preview. Tristan Freeman of Busting Brackets graced Bluenotes and gave us his sage opinions on the upcoming season.

Thanks to the Holyland of Hoops for sponsoring this effort again. Always the best...Thanks Chris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adgjmANBdm0

The BE version will be out in 1-2 days... gtmo

(Nov 5, 2024) 2024 BE Basketball Preview...

https://youtu.be/S9ntoW_s43k

[Django]

Thanks Git will check it out!!!

#13 Texas AM gets beat by 3 by UCF in Orlando…

[Jaybird]

A November 4 court storm has to be a new record. At this rate, TAMU will end up being a drag on our NET.

[skinzfan23]

Found this story on the Creighton website written by Kalk:

https://stories.gocreighton.com/ryan-kalkbrenner-basketball-cheers-to-my-final-season/

[cujaysfan]

Hey NCAA!

#FreeFedor!

[Django]

Hey NCAA!

#FreeFedor!

Great NIL T-shirt idea!

[UncleBillyJ]

Hey NCAA!

#FreeFedor!

Potentially another month :/

[creightonotter]

Potentially another month :/

BOOOOOO HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Jaybird]

By my count, it's been 75 days since Creighton announced Fedor's signing. Apparently, we should add another 30+ days to that to get a resolution, even while other Euro signees from coast to coast have gotten NCAA clearance. Just looking at it from the outside, it seems like his pro experience is an open book, and that his lawyers and Creighton would have been as forthcoming and cooperative as possible to move this along. Does the NCAA need anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks to put together a file, call a meeting, and sit around one of their fancy polished mahogany tables and reach a consensus?

I've suspected for a while now that this whole exercise is much less a long, slow slog of a fact-finding expedition, and more an unstated, de facto partial suspension. Maybe I'm just putting out there what's already obvious to everybody, but to me, it's like the NCAA is saying, "yeah, we'll clear you kid because we've cleared everybody else and we're really bad at defending lawsuits over this eligibility crap, but we don't want to give you a full season since you've got so much more Euro pro experience than most other guys. So, we're gonna sit on it a while because we're not going to let you have a full year".

How much longer they leave him in the penalty box is anybody's guess (although they might know precisely how long inside the program), but I'm wondering, if he got this in front of a Federal judge, whether things might start moving at hyper speed. Remember that UNLV stud who was cleared to play under an emergency court order the morning of our game out there last year (and we lost, maybe because of that order)? Not exactly the same thing, maybe, but the NCAA dropped the case after that little setback. They're weasels, and they seem to cave when they get leaned on a little.

It'd be really sweet to see him suit up against the Silo of Stupid two weeks from tonight. Just a thought.

[JacobPadilla]

I think the answer is much less sinister and intentional. I'm assuming it's a process/resources thing. We don't know how many other cases have been filed with the NCAA across the country, nor do we know every step of what they've determined they need to do in order to clear or deny a case like Žugić's, or even the size of the office in charge of adjudicated these cases. Things typical take a long time with the NCAA, as we've seen, and Žugić's case had to have been filed very late in the process.