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PantherSigEp wrote:Has Abrahamson found another program yet? Boy I'd love it if he went to Creighton and blue birds had to suffer through him and his family, if only for a year.

All Giac had to do was drive 10 miles to West Des Moines and ask people about Kale to find out that this would happen. Stinks for Drake but this will be addition by subtraction as everyone is saying

PantherSigEp wrote:Has Abrahamson found another program yet? Boy I'd love it if he went to Creighton and blue birds had to suffer through him and his family, if only for a year.

All Giac had to do was drive 10 miles to West Des Moines and ask people about Kale to find out that this would happen. Stinks for Drake but this will be addition by subtraction as everyone is saying

DUBulldog wrote:

PantherSigEp wrote:Has Abrahamson found another program yet? Boy I'd love it if he went to Creighton and blue birds had to suffer through him and his family, if only for a year.

All Giac had to do was drive 10 miles to West Des Moines and ask people about Kale to find out that this would happen. Stinks for Drake but this will be addition by subtraction as everyone is saying

Abrahamson will be at Duquesne next season

MoValley John wrote:

DUBulldog wrote:

PantherSigEp wrote:Has Abrahamson found another program yet? Boy I'd love it if he went to Creighton and blue birds had to suffer through him and his family, if only for a year.

All Giac had to do was drive 10 miles to West Des Moines and ask people about Kale to find out that this would happen. Stinks for Drake but this will be addition by subtraction as everyone is saying

Abrahamson will be at Duquesne next season

Is that six years to play four?

achrist70 wrote:Not if he has already earned a degree, which is possible.

DUBulldog wrote:

achrist70 wrote:Not if he has already earned a degree, which is possible.

This. Kale actually got his degree in 2015 after only 3 years. Because he's already graduated, he doesn't have to sit out a season.

kcmsaluki12 wrote:I'm of the opinion that SIU will be worse next season. Losing Beane is huge and I simply don't believe SIU recruited anyone with enough scoring to offset his loss. SIU is not only losing one of the top scorers in SIU history, but their go-to guy. It'll be interesting who SIU will turn to now to fill that role. Looking at the roster, I don't see anyone who can. SIU desperately needed to sign a scorer this spring, and failed to do so.

Even with the core of the team returning, I think this team will really struggle to score. Vincent, Smithpeters, and Weiher are all really good shooters, but I'm not sure how well they'll actually be able to create their own shot. Of the three, Vincent is the most likely. However, whereas this past season they were largely an after-thought in opponents' scouting reports, they'll now become the focus.

Point guard is another position I'm concerned about. As of now, the only point guard on the roster is Mike Rodriguez. The back-up was going to be incoming freshman Aaron Cook, but he recently had surgery and will be out at least six months, so the best course of action for him at this point would be to redshirt.

I think the key for SIU this season will be Armon Fletcher. He has probably the highest ceiling of any player on the team. If SIU is going to have a good season, Fletcher is going to have to build off of his solid freshman season and become a consistent scoring threat.

I'm looking at probably a 5th or 6th place finish for SIU. I expect Hinson will remain on the hot-seat all throughout the season. It'll be his 5th season now at SIU, and a middle-of-the-pack finish in a weak MVC is not acceptable at this stage of a rebuild.