TRAE!!!- Announced as Asst GM- Donation

[CoachTalk]

And why wouldn’t you want that? Do you want the CEO of a major corporation having to deal with every mundane expense account or would you rather allow him or her to focus all their energy on other things? Moser is a basketball coach, and an old school one at that. He hasn’t adapted to NIL and has yet to come up with a consistent roster building approach. Every season feels like a random approach that is in large part an overreaction to the previous year’s failure. A younger GM who understands the market and can spend 100 percent of his time evaluating thousands of players and allow CW to focus on trying to get the ball inbounds and get the ball out of Oweh’s hands is a very good idea IMO.

I’ll give you the nil contract side of things but if I’m the head coach at this level. I want to choose my own players.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I’ll give you the nil contract side of things but if I’m the head coach at this level. I want to choose my own players.

No one is saying the coach wouldn’t have some say in the final decision. But there is no way a head coach can consume video of over a thousand players.

 

[SoonerDutch]

Every job on this planet becomes easier if you hire someone to do 50% of what the original person was doing.

Again, we’ll just have to respectfully (I hope) agree to disagree.

I think it’s pretty clear the Alston ruling & annual transfers has dramatically increased the workload for roster management. If you disagree or think coaches can handle single handily by watching tens of thousands of hours in the offseason, that is your prerogative but that is not consistent with most media coverage of the sport IMO.

Ultimately if the workload goes up, good companies hire others to handle excess workload.

 

[CoachTalk]

No one is saying the coach wouldn’t have some say in the final decision. But there is no way a head coach can consume video of over a thousand players.

I can get behind that then...

 

[WTSooner]

Again, we’ll just have to respectfully (I hope) agree to disagree.

I think it’s pretty clear the Alston ruling & annual transfers has dramatically increased the workload for roster management. If you disagree or think coaches can handle single handily by watching tens of thousands of hours in the offseason, that is your prerogative but that is not consistent with most media coverage of the sport IMO.

Ultimately if the workload goes up, good companies hire others to handle excess workload.

I'm not mad. Happy to chat without name calling. Most everything we discuss here is more rooted in opinion than fact most of the time.

I've seen a couple of you mentioned tens of thousands of hours. Is that an actual number coming from somewhere, or is it made up? Because I would be that is high. Ten thousand hours is roughly 5 people working 40 hours per week year round. That seems like a lot.

I think we can all agree it will be interesting to see how different schools operate differently in the new environment. Be interesting to see who we land for a GM eventually too. With some schools plucking guys from the NBA, I was kind of sad to see somebody from the Thunder (proximity) already go elsewhere. I know nothing about that guy, but if you are getting somebody from the NBA, the Thunder isn't a bad place to take a first look.