As i said yesterday, you'd rather have Augie? These guys have real cash and can compete.
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Don't want AUGIE either FFS.
Byeson 35 -7 Football & 84-53 Basketball duh.
“St Thomas men’s basketball could build a perennial winner at the D-I level … with mostly local athletes”
https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/1...mpression=trueQuote:
......“You talk about programs that are trying to make the transition, there are very few that are in as good of a position as St. Thomas,” Prep Hoops national analyst Ryan James said. “I think it’s in a fantastic position, because of who the head coach is, because of the location, because of the support system and because of the hunger for basketball in Minnesota. I think they’re in a fantastic position to have quick success.”
The talent pool with which Tommies head coach John Tauer has to recruit is deep. Minnesota has grown into a hoops hotbed over the past decade. James said the state’s high school Class of 2022 is probably going to produce more Division-I players than it ever has before......
The men’s team was 26-3 (19-1) last season.
19 man roster (don’t know how they do that? - D3? - iirc 15 is the limit at D1, 13 schollies + 2 walk-ons)
Of the 19, 10 are metro recruits, 7 out-of-state - and 2 out-state MN
https://tommiesports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/roster
Women’s basketball was 21-6 (16-4)
I think they will do well pretty quickly but 26-3 in D3 means a while lot of nothing in D1 to me. Also recruiting a team of D3 talent all from your state is way easier than fielding a D1 team all from your state.
But ALL the good athletes do come from Minneapolis just ask Lakes. (sorry, had to, to easy)
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I think they will too but I just don't see them having a roster full of MN kids to do it. They won't get the ones that are going to high majors and are there really that many DI basketball players in MN that are going to mid/low majors? Maybe there are, IDK.