What does each Big 10 team lose next year

PCHawk said:
There are a lot of rebuttals to this post. For one, demanding the best or you're a loser is way over the top. Maybe you're a 5'5" fat, unathletic high school kid who loves basketball. Is he a loser if he doesn't demand of himself that he make the NBA?

There are so many different levels of skill and only a handful can be at the top. That's why it's the top. There are 100 schools that are striving for the top 10 but only 10% of them will make it. You just have to have realistic expectations in life.

As a fan, I want the coaches and players to have those goals (which they do). But as a fan, there is also no way I'm going to demand that those unrealistic expectations be met "or else". Your post that I originally quoted said there is no reason we can't be MSU. Well you're right in the sense that it's possible. But it came off more like you think it should happen, when in reality, the odds are extremely unlikely that it will. Firing good coach after good coach in desperate attempt at becoming a top 10 program has a lot more likely hood of getting you to the 100th best program than it does getting you into the top 10.
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You know, as a high school freshman I was told by my freshman coach that I would never amount to anything. I was 5'8" and weighed about 110 pounds. I got to play in exactly two of the games that year. But I never gave up, never quit trying to better myself. At the end of my sophomore basketball season I was 6'5" and about 150 pounds. I could affect a lot of things on the basketball court. When I ended my high school career I was 6'7" and about 175 pounds, and actually went on to play for the great Buzz Levick at Wartburg (well, didn't play much but was on the team for 4 years). I look back at my freshman coach and he never did much more than that.

Naysayers abound in today's world. I put little stock into them. Illegitimi non carborundum!
 
Knight78 said:
You know, as a high school freshman I was told by my freshman coach that I would never amount to anything. I was 5'8" and weighed about 110 pounds. I got to play in exactly two of the games that year. But I never gave up, never quit trying to better myself. At the end of my sophomore basketball season I was 6'5" and about 150 pounds. I could affect a lot of things on the basketball court. When I ended my high school career I was 6'7" and about 175 pounds, and actually went on to play for the great Buzz Levick at Wartburg (well, didn't play much but was on the team for 4 years). I look back at my freshman coach and he never did much more than that.

Naysayers abound in today's world. I put little stock into them. Illegitimi non carborundum!
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That is why they get into coaching 'to inspire young men'. You got a lot farther than most players. I'm glad you got all those good memories.
 
Situations are pretty much settled now. Correct me if I have something wrong.

WI - Koenig, Hayes, Showalter and Brown
MD - Dodd and Trimble (Jr.)
PU - Swanigan (So.)
NW - Lumpkin and Taphorn
MSU - Harris and Ellis III
Iowa - Jok
IN - Anunoby (So.), Bryant (So.) and Blackmon (Jr.)
MN - Springs
MI - Walton, Irvin, Robinson, Donnal and Wilson (Jr.)
OSU - Loving and Thompson (Jr.)
PSU - None
NE - Webster, Jacobson (So.) and Morrow (So.)
IL - Hill, Morgan, Abrams and Thorne
RUT - Gettys
 
WindsorHawk said:
There are some changes as of today. Trimble and Thompson are officially NBA bound. Morrow is transferring. Happ's and Bridges' draft stock are on the rise so I added them. Sanders (RUT) is entering the draft but not hiring an agent...think he will return.

WI - Koenig, Hayes, Showalter, Brown and Happ (So.)
MD - Dodd and Trimble (Jr.)
PU - Swanigan (Jr.)
NW - Lumpkin and Taphorn
MSU - Harris, Ellis III and Bridges (Fr.)
Iowa - Jok
IN - None
MN - Springs
MI - Walton, Irvin, Robinson and Donnal
OSU - Loving and Thompson (Jr.)
PSU - None
NE - Webster and Morrow (So.)
IL - Hill, Morgan, Abrams and Thorne
RUT - Gettys
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I think that Happ has the potential to be the Player of The Year.
I love how Iowa is sitting. Minnesota, Sparty and NW will both be very tough next season
 
More, Wisconsin needs to find some front court help. Somebody who is scary enough scoring to keep the opponents from double and triple teaming him.
 
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