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Luca is in Izmir, Turkey watching someone

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2022/08/oregon-mens-basketball-hires-armon-gates-as-assistant-coach-kevin-mckenna-moves-to-support-staff.html

Didn't make the top 5

The Big 10 has been pursuing Texas. I'd assume their plan was Texas and Notre Dame as Oklahoma doesn't fit where they want to be academically and the rest of the Big 10 schools don't really move the needle. The SEC had no problems with an Oklahoma and Texas. Not sure what Texas might have done if the Big 10 maybe looked at Texas and Kansas. With Texas out of the picture, there isn't anyone left in the Big 12 who meet the criteria of fitting academically with the Big 10 and could increase a TV contract enough to be worth adding. What's the point to adding Colorado and Kansas if a 16 team revenue split is potentially less than a 14 team split? With the ACC a nightmare due to their long term contract, the Pac-12 was the only logical choice for raiding and the Big 10 went out and got the best two schools and figured out how to do so without having to expand to 20 schools. Maybe long term this is all bad for college athletics but in the short term jet fuel and late nights will be a problem to contemplate while swimming in Scrooge McDuck's vault of gold coins.

I don't think it all has to come from Griesel though as our likely starting PG he's going to be pivotal to the success of our offense. Feels like Griesel and Bandoumel bring some much needed leadership qualities, Gary brings some GATA, and Breidenbach and Keita bring some grind. This seems like it could be the first of Fred's team to play better than the sum of their parts though I'm not sure that we have a ton of guys that could start for other B1G teams.

"Trey, have you thought about playing on the East Coast?" ~Chase

Didn't make is top 5

We're 'Fred Hoiberg is following him on twitter' serious in trying to land Rock

6'1" from Bellevue West

Looks like Oregon renewed Chuck Martin's contract. I wonder if we'll be hearing something from them about Gates today. https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2022/07/contract-details-for-oregon-mens-basketball-assistant-coach-chuck-martin.html

This is PEAK CHEMISTRY season where someone always says that the group is tighter than the prior season. Heck, at least we have enough continuity to be able to compare.

Committed to Kansas St

Playing Oklahoma

reclassifying to 2022

A bit of a nutshell that Keisei is a situational player and his playing time should be dependent on a combination of - Is he 'feeling it' - Is the other team exploiting him Besides him being more experienced, I think that being paired with bigger guys like Griesel and Lloyd at PG instead of Verge and Webster makes his lack of size easier to hide on the court. Speaking of experienced, he's 1 of the 7 guys on the roster with D-1 experience so I'd expect a role for him at the beginning of the season.

On this message board it's easy enough to review something you've written and revise or remove it, especially when it won't be missed.

Keisei hitting 8 3 pointers and his team losing by 14 has me ready for year 4.

Gates updated his twitter bio to assistant coach for Oregon. That seems pretty definitive. The holdup is that Oregon can only have 3 assistants at a time so someone needs to move before they can officially hire Gates. It's possible that contract timing is holding this up. Look for Kevin McKenna to be moved to special assistant to make room for Gates.

"While Armon Gates’ coaching role with the Ducks has not yet been defined" This is like checking the shipping status of your package and seeing it's been out for delivery for 10 days

Griesel is still recovering and hasn't been cleared to play. Someone is pulling your leg.

Haven't heard anything from Oregon yet. Does their fiscal year end July 31st or something?

They have Jamison Battle plus a coach that won 13 games in year 1