Lawal 30 mins Hansberry 30 mins Dorn 20 mins Gurdack - As needed ** Edited by VT ChemE 1986 at 11/5/2025, 1:33:33 PM

He played pretty darn well for a true freshman in his first college game. I predict LaWOW will have many more WOW plays this year. Many more! Multiple WOW plays every game. Hansberry is our new 3-point shooting ace! :) He's just as good as expected...maybe better, since this was our first game. Looking forward to Dorn making his debut! It's nice having depth in our front court.

His ceiling within this offense could be very high. Id like to see him in a little better shape, but he is solid in almost all facets of the game

NIL + sell how the roster is going to open significantly for him next year + steal a few more minutes this year from others to get him pt??

Limit the exposure which would most likely limit value on the open market. I have a coaching buddy who has taken a somewhat unusual position his entire coaching career where prospects are concerned. Once he locked onto a prospect he loved or perhaps unearthed, he would pull like crazy for the player to lay a complete egg any time the prospect played during an open evaluation period in front of college coaches. He sincerely wanted the player to not just not play well, but he wanted the player to be awful. Has never strayed from that position to this day. In fact, Virginia Tech signed a player some time ago under very similar circumstances and that was Coleman Collins. He played on a fairly low hanging fruit team based in Atlanta, coached by Benjamin Miller. Tech had been given a heads up on Coleman by a scout they trusted and Mark Cline had gone out and watched Coleman in a very small AAU event. Then, during an open Tournament in July, Coleman played with this Atlanta All Stars team, Benjamin’s team. Coach Stokes was seeing Coleman for the first time at this event and I remember being there. I watched all of Coleman’s three games at this event. Scores of coaches in attendance, Calipari, Coach K. The word had gotten out and he was a secret no longer. It was in fact an overflow crowd and I would guess 90-95 % of the coaches in attendance were there to see this late blossoming, totally unknown Big. Coleman wasn’t even in the top 500 of any online scouting entity. None. He was a genuinely, completely unknown prospect at the time of this July event. The good thing is Coleman played poorly, very poorly in fact in game 1. In his second game he played a little better but still not very well. The number of coaches had significantly dwindled in game 2 due to his game 1 performance. In fact, I recall Calipari getting up and leaving at the end of the 3rd Q in game 1. By game 3, wasn’t very many coaches at all. But it then was a good news/bad news situation. Competition had been understandably scared off by Coleman’s poor performances and that was a good thing for Tech. But the bad news was Coach Stokes had never seen Coleman before and he was unimpressed. Also understandably. He was not at all ready to offer Coleman. In fact, I thought we wouldn’t offer because Coach Stokes just hadn’t seen enough to merit an offer. Coleman’s offers to that point had been small schools, mostly all low D-1 schools. But Mark Cline was dogged in convincing Ricky to trust him and we had to offer before bigger schools would go watch his workouts post-July and would eventually see the talent Coleman possessed and they would offer. And Cline was able to do so, Ricky trusted his assistant coach and Tech locked him down in August and Coleman visited in early September just to clinch things and it was over. Ricky was quite reluctant but Cline just persisted and persisted and fortunately for Tech wore him down eventually and the story ended happily. ** Edited by Rev.Zeke Vodka at 11/6/2025, 12:52:02 PM

** Edited by Rev.Zeke Vodka at 11/7/2025, 2:59:02 PM ** Edited by Rev.Zeke Vodka at 11/7/2025, 3:19:48 PM

The Coleman Collins during his freshman and sophomore years was pretty darn good. In fact, I remember during his sophomore year Duke came into Cassell with Shelden Williams, who at the time was being predicted as a top 5 NBA draft choice. Coleman soundly kicked his butt in that game. His junior and senior years were tough, especially his senior year after his father passed. If you recall Coleman’s dad became sick early during his junior season. Coleman missed tons of practices and classes traveling back and forth to Atlanta to visit his ailing dad, who passed away eventually. It was a significant ordeal for Coleman and during those junior and senior years he just wasn’t the same player or person. They were very close. I have often wondered what his last two seasons would have looked like if not for his unfortunate circumstances with his ailing father, all the missed practices and stress he faced. I am certain those two years would have been significantly different. At the end of his sophomore year I legitimately felt he had an excellent chance at being an NBA draft choice if he continued his development arc of the first two seasons. Unfortunately that did not occur due his father’s circumstances. ** Edited by Rev.Zeke Vodka at 11/6/2025, 1:31:51 PM

You play him the amount best for the team in the current year It may sound nefarious, but the less you showcase him the lower his value is on the open market. So if you actually like him youre going to value him more than what others will see in him because theyre not in practice. If you give him a reasonable offer for the role he will provide it is much more likely to be higher than your peers So literally just keep open communication with him, let him know your plan for his development and stick to the plan. Where it is merited, play him and let him figure out how to make things work

but Gurdak showed me what a Freshman center is supposed to look like.

have bright futures. Neo is almost certainly one and done - could see Pasha hitting the portal if he doesn't make a dent in Hammond's minutes but, as CMY said on the podcast, there will be situations when all 3 are on the floor at the same time. Also should have Freeman in the rotation next year if he develops well before next season.

If Hammond and Pasha stay, then Freeman becomes the 5-8min/game Redshirt freshman with a 2 yr gap between he and his elder counterparts. We'll be lucky to keep all 3 but I think there's certainly room on the roster for all of them.

Is perfect for a Mike Young team?