This is pretty much where I'm at. Walker looks every bit the stretch forward that the modern NBA wants. He can guard almost anyone on the floor, is good on the glass, and has an outside shot. He could fit onto almost any roster, his floor is just that high. The question is how high is his ceiling. Marcus is a more curious case. His role and where he slots into a modern NBA roster is a bit murky. He has all the tools to succeed, but unlike Walker, I think he is going to require a bit more of a heavy touch on the roster fit and utilization side of things to make it truly click.
Hopefully both end up on a team that fits both ways. Grimes ended up in a good situation with what the Knicks need him to be. Just hope Thibs doesn't kill him with the minutes in the long run lol
It's been like that for years. NIL just replaced BTS (Behind The Scene). UT and A&M, along with others have been playing players for years, BTS. UH players will get more NIL money eventually.
It hasn't been like that for years. UH has been playing catch up for years and obviously they were waaaaaaay behind. The ones ahead already had the resources and after the NIL officially came along it added that much more to those programs. UH into the B12 is just another step
Recently, yes, I agree but as little as 10yrs ago those schools were on different levels because they could pay players and it was over looked because of who they were. Case in point, SMU. UT and A&M were incensed that they were losing recruits to SMU in the late 70's and early 80's and they turned them in. SMU received the Death Penalty. Those schools hated UH as well, to the point that they kept them out of the Big 12. They did not want the competition.
10 years ago UH athletics was a dump especially basketball. nobody gave af that is was rotting and bottom barrel
And that's how it got to that point. UH athletics wasn't always like that! UT and A&M wanted SMU and UH out of the way so they could takeover the Houston and Dallas recruiting markets. As long as they could keep those two schools down, UT and A&M were fine.
This has nothing to do with what kelvin sampson said. not even sure why you're taking the historian path
I respect Kelvin for telling it like it is. Meanwhile, Dana over here whining about facilities... like that's the end all be all. The kids want the money. Put up or shut up.
Our NIL Brand has to be better than everyone else. The good news is our competitive curve perfectly matched up with the NIL curve. So we are on the map. But we only have from August to April to facilitate cash before they go pro. Everything is on hyper drive each year for the elite basketball talent. Dana has a little more time than we do.
In the past the money was funneled to the AAU guys to steer players to certain schools or sometimes directly to the players they just had to bank on the guys not running their mouths about where they got the cash. How many times did we see a certain players AAU coach magically get hired as an asst at a school to land a player ? The story about Michael Beasley's AAU coach got a job on the K-State staff making more than the president of the school.
Mark Berman on Twitter: "College basketball source: Kelvin and Kellen Sampson have signed their upgraded @UHCougarMBK contracts." / Twitter
Kelvin was saying it's not about the recruiting, it's about the resources. And the reason UH got to the point it was at, is because UT and A&M did not want them in the SWC at first and then they did not want them in the Big 12. It's very much true. I've been a UH fan since the days of Danny Davis, Wilson Whitley, Rob Williams and his cousin Juice Williams. UH has always been the "IT" school, the New Kid on the block and the main stream schools hated it. The only thing the main stream schools had on UH was money and back door connects in Austin. So they used that to their benefit.....to keep UH down. UH is on the up swing again where they deserve to be and I think the future is bright.
