Thank goodness! Something to do. Go Bearcats!
For once your Xavier slander is NOT slander. I give you full credit on this one. Absolutely must win, wow they have fallen off (at least expected)
For (early) KP context:
Cincinnati: 43
Dayton: 60
Xavier: 107 
(*118 off, 102 def, 117 adjT)
Hey nice catch! Looks like Washington was 13-18 last year. Yes, currently 49 in KenPom, tho.
But who exactly is projecting this tourney 
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the washington playersā moms?
BYU lands Ahmed
I take back everything Iāve ever said, ban G League players from joining college teams, starting with Ahmed. Unless he changes his mind 
Soā¦ Abdullah Ahmed will convert to LDSā¦?
How does that work?
Iām assuming Ahmed is muslim since heās from Egyptā¦
I mean itās not a bad assumption, but I imagine heāll be expected to abide by the BYU Code of Conduct and keep it to himself
Most basketball players at BYU arenāt LDS.
Off the top of my head Saunders, Baker, and Mrus are the three that get minutes are LDS.
Keba Keita is a Muslim and so was Fous Traore last year.
Dybansta, Wright, Keita, and Davis are all non Mormon starters.
Yeah; they are expected to live the honor code. They are expected to go to church, whatever church that is. A pastor, reverend, Rabbi, whatever can say that the person is striving to be Christ like and living the honor code.
I mean I could probably learn to love Soaking and saying Daggummit instead of cursing if someone were to pay me a few Millies.
Plus I hear Utah is pretty damn beautiful
Yeah, soaking isnāt real. Other weird things are real. Soaking is not.
If they want to have sex theyāll just have sex.
Prettiest state in the union in my biased opinion.
Dang. that bums me out to hear that. I was kinda hoping it was real. I mean I imagine meeting a girl and seeing if sheās down for a quick Soak Sesh.
But in any case. Iād could abide by most rules if it meant getting paid to play basketball
I believe the term used for this is an āecclesiastical endorsementā, if I heard correctly.
But yes, it is my understanding that being at least a somewhat āactive participantā in your religion of choice is inherent in the HC, as it more or less implicitly requires you follow the tenets of the WOW.
This is coming from my limited research from BYU and LDS, or at least LDS-adjacent sourcesā¦ so my apologies if I mischaracterize or butcher it lol.
You could go the Tebow route and get some hotdogging inā¦
Spot on
Once again, correct me if im wrong, but i also heard this in particular can be used creatively as a selling point to non-mormon parents and/or handlers.
It functions as a built in career-protection mechanism. In order to maximize earning potential as a professional athlete, youāre kind of supposed to be more or less avoiding a lot of this stuff all together.
Obviously drinking and sex are more lax outside a BYU context, but even in a socially acceptable setting this this can and often does get aspiring athletes in all sorts of trouble.
Why not get paid now while eliminating or at least mitigating the surrounding temptation and permissivness that youād get elsewhere, and thereby increase the likelihood your career and reputation emerge from college unscathed by committing to BYU?
I think thatās pretty smart. We have a form of that at Iowa State. Itās called living in Iowa
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Parents and handlers/agents see it for themselves and love the ideaā¦the kids? maybe less excited about it LMAO.
Depends how serious they are about priortizing getting better at basketball/football. I can see it working largely the same at BYU.
Yeah, a lot of Christian parents like their kids at BYU for those reasons.
Different sport, but on the football team the Bachmeier brothers arenāt LDS, Martin isnāt LDS (I think all three are catholic), two of the starting offensive linemen arenāt LDS. All the corners arenāt LDS. A few of the contributing defensive linemen arenāt either.
Edit: the phrase Sitake and Young use is ākeeping the main thing the main thing.ā So for Dybansta itās God, family, basketball. At BYU it can be God, family, basketball and, in theory, there are fewer distractions.
Yup, I knew all that. Doesnāt surprise me.
Certainly helps to have the market on LDS players more or less cornered tho. Theyāre going to be very healthy and come from good families, by in large. Just kind of as a baseline.
Hardly cornered. Utah takes a lot. Stanford takes a lot. Oregon takes a lot. Notre dame takes a few. Arizona takes a lot. ASU takes a lot. Iād wager we miss on more LDS big talent than we land.
Edit:
Jaxon Dart, Tanner McKee, Sam Leavitt, Imaeleava (spelling?) are recent big misses at qb.
I could do every position and BYU misses on big time talent. Except maybe corner. We donāt have good Mormon talent at corner
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