The men's game is drastically different from the women's game. The men's game is played above the rim and the X's and O's are different. The talent pool is much, much deeper. There is much more money in the game and recruiting is much more competitive. The influence of the NBA is lurking all around and the WNBA's influence doesn't come close in the women's game.
Vic is an awesome coach and exactly where he should be to maximize his success as a coach. He wouldn't automatically excel the same way in the men's game. My advice to you, or anyone, is to simply enjoy the women's game for what it is and the men's game for what it is and stop trying to compare the two.
went to high school at North Shore. Max Melton was drafted in the second round in the 2024 draft, which doesn't exactly happen often at Rutgers.
There is reason to trust Sark when it comes to coaching hires.
Please, elaborate what these injuries are, how he got them, and why they are ultimately tied to his frame's inability to hold up in the college game.
Surely you have specific information and insight into the injuries than what is publicly available - otherwise you are grasping at data points and trying to cram them into a predetermined narrative you've formed based on some 9.95'er scouting reports. Do we need to pull up high school scouting reports for 5 star busts? For 3 star success stories? Nobody is saying such reports don't have a place, but you are making firm, sweeping conclusions based on conjecture.
FWIW, I like both Vasek and Jackson. Don't sleep on Umeozulu as well. It is a deep and talented room, and if Jackson emerges it'll be a pleasant surprise.
Much can/will be sorted out in spring/fall practice, but as a current snapshot I can tell you that pregame warm ups had Bolden/Bond/Butler (in that order) practicing punt returns.
I won't go into details, but set against a big sample size of athletes, Bond stands alone in certain displays of douchebaggery. Not everyone has the personality/foundation to handle the money, attention, and expectations well, especially when adversity strikes. It would be great if everyone was like Golden/Moore/Whittington.
I, on the other hand, did it the worst way possible. I turned it on early in the second half with a 20-something point lead and promptly watched the offense grind to a halt while OU came back (and not in that playing awesome everything falling kind of way - they weren't particularly impressive either). It was a staggering display of incompetent offense and lackluster defense. But hey, we won.
I mean not disrespect to Burton, but he is consistently terrible at these eligibility questions. Conner is out of eligibility. Bolden (another one he is frequently wrong talking about) is out of eligibility.