Quote Originally Posted by XUGRAD80 View Post
Had a coach at X that used to say….“When if and buts are candy and nuts, everyday will be Christmas.”

I try not to get caught up in the preseason hype for any of the new players….freshman or transfers….and for the team as a whole when it’s basically an all new team. Because they are all new, you can never know for sure how they will perform as a unit, or individually. Travore was a 10-10 guy sure, but against who? Certainly not against Big East caliber competition. And who else on his team? Was he the only interior player they had? Did he get all those rebounds because nobody else on his team played down low? Did he get 10 points a game in garbage time? Against smaller players? Did they play n a similar system? If we rely only on the stats that the freshman or transfers put up in the past, with no consideration of the circumstances under which they played, we are apt to be disappointed in most cases where the players are moving up to a higher level of competition. In most cases the players don’t continue to perform at the same level. We’ve had some exceptions the last 2 seasons by two players. But what about the others?

I’ll wait to get excited until after I see how the players and the team are performing against top competition.
As far as traore, I’ll trust what miller was saying about him.