I said 2 of 4. It ended up being 1 of 4 so yea I was wrong but only slightly. Most people said they were all coming back.
Xavier Johnson Transferring
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I said 2 of 4. It ended up being 1 of 4 so yea I was wrong but only slightly. Most people said they were all coming back.
You have no idea who’s leaving or coming. Saying 1000 different possibilities/scenarios doesn’t make you right, you just cover all bases then point back to the scenario which was right.
Will they continue to want to come here now? I doubt it, if it ever existed.
Sweet Sixteen is probably a bit ambitious but next year truly should’ve been the year that making the tournament was a reasonable/attainable goal. It’s been a bit of a gift that the ACC has been down as it has been, otherwise the results could’ve been even worse.
College basketball as it is now and as it has evolved over the past few years is just a cesspool of corruption. It's all about the top 10 or so programs who can pay the right amounts to the right coaches and players and leaving the other 300+ programs behind. It's basically a garbage developmental league for a garbage pro league. It is very hard to watch that any longer.
Yikes
Oh well
We were losing with him
We’ll lose without him
There goes small ball unless drumgole suddenly looks like be belongs on a college basketball court
Oh well
We were losing with him
We’ll lose without him
There goes small ball unless drumgole suddenly looks like be belongs on a college basketball court
We'll be very fortunate if we even get into any tournament in the next 5 years, let alone in the next year or 2. Not with this coaching staff.
I enjoyed watching X play for the most part, but it’s clear you can’t have the inmates running the asylum, mice running the cats, whatever you want to call it.
Good riddance on Johnson. I for sure will not miss him.
Champagnie and the rest of the team will be better off without him. And, yes I don't see him leaving.
Champagnie and the rest of the team will be better off without him. And, yes I don't see him leaving.
Sometimes its just not a good fit and you need to part ways. He's not the first player to transfer and he won't be the last. You can't keep banging your head against the wall.
He will be among the hottest transfers on the market
Now that would be addition by subtraction.
No he won't. AJ Bramah will go to a better program. Mark that down. Johnson will go to a lower P6/A10ish program. I see him going to a Pitt or Nebraska-level program.
Lol. I’m not doing this all day with you. He will be a very hot commodity, most likely go to a “better” program than Brahmah, then you’ll claim you were right because Brahmah goes to Loyola chicago and they’re ranked over an unranked historically better program. You fit your own arbitrary criteria to every argument.
Nope. I listed who the blue blood or almost blue bloods were and that's where Bramah is going. Johnson will go to a program on Pitt's level historically. Sure, some better programs will sniff around but he'll eventually wind up at like Temple, GW, George Mason, Penn State, some place like that.
Hahahahaha. You think X is going to end up at George Mason or Temple? Hhahahahahahaha.
SMF KNOWS COLLEGE BASKETBALL. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaah
One of the dumbest things I’ve read on this website and that’s saying something.
2nd in the ACC in assists and 14.7 PPG and he’s gonna transfer down to the A10
Johnson, perhaps more than any Pitt hoops player I can recall in recent memory, could be very exciting to watch at some times and just as frustrating at other times.
At the end of the day, he was responsible for helping make Pitt basketball fun again after an excruciating two years; he also brought some memorable performances for a program that desperately lacked them in recent years. With that being said, I think it’s best that both sides part ways.
I wish him nothing but the best and hope that Coach Capel can continue the rebuild without him.
At the end of the day, he was responsible for helping make Pitt basketball fun again after an excruciating two years; he also brought some memorable performances for a program that desperately lacked them in recent years. With that being said, I think it’s best that both sides part ways.
I wish him nothing but the best and hope that Coach Capel can continue the rebuild without him.
Yep a school similar to that. He isnt very good. I was right about McGowens's level and I will be right about Johnson. Besides his ability, he has a discipline problem that high-level coaches wont want to deal with.
So coaches won’t want to put up with X? But will want to put up with Bramah? Even though X has put up his numbers in the ACC with little talent around him? Huh?
Yes because a PG is more of a key position. A high level coach isnt going to hand his keys over to a guy who Jeff Capel couldn't control in 3 years.
I will say that if Johnson agreed to move to the 2, he would have much better options. He will NOT play PG at a program better than Pitt.
Maybe the key will be his willingness to be coached. And play accordingly.
A leopard doesn't change its spots so I don't expect him to change. But whoever gets him will only have to tolerate his antics for one year.
So was Trey and Ithiel and that shows the quality of the transfer market. .
This is going to be a better transfer market with immediate eligibility, and X is still going to be very close to the top of it. Think guys like Carlik Jones, James Akinjo, DJ Carton, Bryce Aiken, Andrew Nembhard.
I hope X does well somewhere. I think he could do well on a good team with some talented bigs to clear the lane for him. It seems like this needed to happen though.
Yep, pretty much. I will miss good X, but won't miss bad X. Talent and competitiveness is there... just too much individual play. Similar to my thoughts when Trey transferred.
Seems X was given plenty of rope, maybe too much. At some point a coach has to draw the line. Oh well.
The best thing that could happen
to X is getting a coach who makes
it clear from the moment of the
offer......"here's what we do, I feel
you can help us, but you better
leave the one on one excessive
dribbling behind. We run a set
offense which allows for some
individual freedom. I don't stand
for complaining to the refs, making
demonstrable grimaces when it
doesn't go your way. and trying to
do too much at the expense of
your teammates. We realize you're
talented, but you'll have to do
what I'm telling you. 1f you
can't agree to this, forget about
coming here."
to X is getting a coach who makes
it clear from the moment of the
offer......"here's what we do, I feel
you can help us, but you better
leave the one on one excessive
dribbling behind. We run a set
offense which allows for some
individual freedom. I don't stand
for complaining to the refs, making
demonstrable grimaces when it
doesn't go your way. and trying to
do too much at the expense of
your teammates. We realize you're
talented, but you'll have to do
what I'm telling you. 1f you
can't agree to this, forget about
coming here."
