Top 10 Rotation: this year

[Mslacat]

OK Basketball season practice starts friday night. Who do you think will be the top 10 players in the Griz rotation. You have all of your big men back, plus you add a JC top 25-50 power forward, and a highly touted 7'-0" center, some players who played last year could have there minutes cut.

Here is how I see it:

Ellis
Martin
Dloughy
Hasquet
Straight
Mayes
Chavez
Chase
Swift
Rundles or Graves

These are not nessiarily the top 10 players top to bottom but a balance of top players who could contribute in a rotation.

Spurgest redshirted last year so he will be active this year.

That would leave the majority of the following players to most likely to be redshirted.

Sharp
Vanderjact
Rundles or Graves
Staudacher
Simms

Barring injury these final 5 players will get minimal minutes. I have heard that Vanderjact came to Missoula with the understanding he will not redshirt, and the coaches are high on Sims being able to contribute this year which would leave the remaining three to redshirt if not more.

Any thoughts

 

[Unwrittengriz]

I really liked the way Kyle Sharp played towards the end of the season & especially in the NCAA tournament. I think he will definetely be a big part of the rotation.

 

[Grizbeer]

I don't believe Spurgetis resdshirted last year - he played in 10 games?

I don't have a clue what the line-up will look like this year, there are so many different combinations I get a headache trying to figure it out.

 

[citygriz]

agree on kyle sharp. both he and austin swift were standout high school players, and i expect both to blossom this year. we will regret greatly that we did not redshirt swift. it will stand out as one of the few blunders of the kystkowiak era.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

we will regret greatly that we did not redshirt swift. it will stand out as one of the few blunders of the kystkowiak era.

And one turned ankle or one knee injury to a starter & then you would have to burn a red-shirt anyway. Seyfert had his injury & Hasquet was overcoming one as well; shooting guards having to play @ SF etc. etc. etc. Knock on wood that we had no serious injuries.

The way them other BSC teams play with their klutziness & vendetas against the top teams I'd be rather apprehensive as well when it comes to playing them on the road; if the refs are like they are in the football season any amount of injuries sustained one can blame on them seemingly @ most times (which reminds me, why do most referees have to over-aged, over-weight & if not blind to the world around them, why do they act like giving out fouls & penalties as if on a quota system?).

Why don't the conferences actually pay these officials decent wages (per diem etc.) & subsequently school them like baseball umpires having schools to attend in order to develop a proficient sense of judgement and knowledge of the rules of the game & primarily hire individuals that actually played the game? Then they would have some level of credibility instead of conference officials having to say STFU to all coaching staffs if any discrepancies are observed & are complained about. How many calls were missed during the PSU & EWU games for instance? And we are just supposed to live with it? & if I or anyone else doesn't like it become one oneself? Great, then everyone ought to be a lawyer then. There is such a thing as doing one's job especially one that entails a position of public trust.

I just wonder what the NCAA said to the President of the University of Oklahoma over that Oregon game in order to shut him up? How many late hits did JS take in Cheney anyway? (Criswell getting hit after the game was over in Portland?) I'd hate to take players off the field and/or court because the officials lost the control of the game (or just didn't give a gawd damn what happened). There has to be some kind of accountability.

 

[citygriz]

bucks! that's what it takes to train and pay competent officials, and that's why you'll never find any in the big sky. if you're on the side of moving up to a better conference that has a tv contract and some quality facilities, welcome aboard. otherwise, bad officials, bandbox gyms, high-school fooball stadiums and dreadful playing surfaces not to mention inadequate seating for the hordes of griz fans at away games and jealous imbecilic student sports editors are all part of the big sky mystaque...i mean, mystique. savor the memories, the tide be turnin'.

 

[Panteleone]

The pay rate for oifficials in the Big Sky is not that much lower than for the PAC 10, or other major conferences. The perdiem is the same.

I do not believe that the pay rate has much to do with the quality of officials for the conference. Most conferences have a system in place for recruitment and retention of officials. I do not know who the Big Sky head of officials is, nor who the commissioner is any longer. But, providing good officials is the responsibility of these two entities.

Many times, the best officials in the smaller conferences are recruited to move up to the more major conferences. So, the Big Sky may lose its best officials that way.