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What I loved - Recruiting/Portal coverage, Tony Hills/Marcus Myers analysis, Watch with us, Lunch with Coach, Tailgates, guests from opponent's media, CJ's growth as a reporter and critic, Matt's added production What could improve or I could do without - Some redundancy in the shows (might be purposeful but just repetitive for folks that watch all the content), Grades shows Overall A+ as usual.

I disagree that he's not athletic, but yes there will be more athletic defenders that will give him problems. His issue is he's strong but he doesn't know how to use that strength with good footwork. His footwork is awful right now. That's why he travels so much when he throws his shoulder into the chest of the defender. If he just worked on mastering a strong drop step, he would be so much more dangerous. Same goes for defense. His footwork is just awful and always puts him in a bad position which usually results in a foul. He's still got a lot of development to undergo.

The Kentucky guy had a couple blocks on him but there were a number of times he had the guy pinned down or had the jump hook and just missed some easy shots. You have convert on those or draw a foul when you have the position which he did neither.

Once again defending the pick and roll killed us. We probably had 15+ fouls that results from trying to defend the PnR with Matas/Traore and Pope/Wilcher. Simeon Wilcher's +/- has got to be awful this season. He's a liability on defense and hasn't scored much for this team. I get Heide was sick but playing Wilcher a lot of minutes is not a recipe for success. Matas has to capitalize on some of those bunnies he missed in the 2nd half. That was the difference in the game. Swain was great but Pope was gun shy all night.

Miller didn't have the guys prepared well tonight. The zone completely slowed our offense down and at times the guys looked confused as to what to do and didn't even run an offensive set again it. Not going to win many games in the SEC scoring 70 points. Also I felt Miller maybe a pretty huge rotational mistake in the last 12 minutes of the game playing Heide and Welcher over Kendall Weaver more. Both guys were giving up buckets every time down the court when A&M ran pick and roll with them and Matas' man. Plus, they didn't contribute much on offense (which I think was why Miller chose to play them since we were down and needed buckets) at all so we were getting burned on both ends with them in the game. Either those 2 guys need to start getting ALOT better on defense or start hitting more outside shots or Miller needs to sit them more. In the end, the A&M guys made some tough shots to win but our roster should have scored much more than 70 pts against that team.

That would be *chef's kiss*

Should add Roschon to that list as well. The days of feel good development/loyalty stories are gone. Another good talking point would be the diminishing value culture has in regards to retention. If 30-40% of the roster is replaced every year, will Sark's team culture be cohesive enough in time to avoid 3 losses each season.

The women look tense and uncomfortable. LSU's affecting them even running their normal offensive sets. Hopefully they'll come with even more physicality soon but we're in foul trouble right now.

This is a big one! Let's go!

I guess Sean Miller finally got the guys to stop "walking across the street". LOL Good win. They were much more athletic on defense tonight especially with blocks and Pope and Mark show lights out. Hope they can build off this win and keep getting better.

Sure must be nice to be able to run up the middle on 3rd or 4th and short like Indiana and Miami do for first downs. Makes life much easier for the playcallers. Hopefully we can get there next year.

I think it's very possible that we underestimated regional pull for the players or even missing the playoffs this year. Allieggro and Peak stayed generally in the same region. The rest of the players stayed with their said team. Money has played a bigger role in retention than it has in acquisition which is something to note as well.

It's not the WR that's concerning as much as not getting the elite OL or LB in the portal which are arguably our 2 biggest needs. Either we have been pretty unlucky with targets or there is something else going on we aren't talking about. I'm not quite sure yet.

True but the cream of the crop will be gone in 2 weeks. We'll just be filling bodies after that.

Bobby and Gerry mentioned during this morning's show our NIL offer for the LB Alliegro that we lost out on was considerably more. It could very well be regional but I pose the question because we haven't seen players flocking to us either with the $, the OB/offense, SEC, brand, culture, education, and city advantage that we supposedly have. Something seems off right now and we only have 8 days to fill all the roster spots (outside of the playoff teams).