Quote from: hobhog on Today at 09:31:58 amSeveral of those players are in Fayetteville for 2-3 years, including the pitchers. And the others I don't/wont remember.

Charlotte Hornets' Brandon Miller places third in NBA Rookie of the Year voting

By Mark Inabinett |

QuoteHornets forward Brandon Miller finished third in the voting for the KIA NBA Rookie of the Year Award for the 2023-24 season.

San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama won the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy as the NBA's Rookie of the Year for the 2023-24 season by unanimous vote of the 99 sportswriters and broadcasters



Hornets chose Miller from Alabama with the second selection in the 2023 NBA Draft after the Spurs made Wembanyama the No. 1 pick. Holmgren entered the NBA as the No. 2 pick in the 2022 draft, but he missed the entire 2022-23 season because of a foot injury.

In 74 games, Miller averaged 17.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists as a rookie. His 184 3-point baskets rank as the fourth-most for a first-year player in NBA history.

One player from an Alabama high school or college has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. Former Brantley High School and Auburn standout Chuck Person won the 1986-87 award as he averaged 18.8 points per game as a forward for the Indiana Pacers.

Former Carver-Dothan star Artis Gilmore won the 1971-72 ABA Rookie of the Year Award as the Kentucky Colonels' center. He averaged 23.8 points and led the ABA with 17.8 rebounds per game in his first season.

Quote from: Jayleigh81 on Today at 08:43:22 amI'm also wondering on this one since I've seen a lot of Kentucky comments on wanting this guy hardcore. I'm not saying we need a second Richmond on the team just to beat Kentucky from getting him, but I wouldn't be opposed to having a really talented player on our team that also continues the trend of being one that Kentucky really wanted.

Quote from: TheGrove68 on Today at 03:42:13 amSo your using common opponent's as the Metric to gauge the Mental Effort and Focus of two teams across various weeks and situations? Injury reports, weather, location of the game, etc. are not factored in your numbers. That is not a very quantifiable data point by any measure. Sure using those comparisons can get you a surface talent and production metric of the talent measurable of both teams and that can give a idea of what team is better. But once you delve into the Mental aspect your numbers are not gonna hold up.

In fact across a 10 year span you would assume if this is true about the Hogs and they are the more physically  talented and the Ark. team was hardened in the rigors of SECW that the Hogs would have won more games vs Mizzou do to the overall advantage in Mental sharpness and toughness they had achieved competing in the West and having a talent advantage to boot. To Fall flat continually and not play up to their Mental and Physical potential seems like a near statistical impossibility over a decade.

Quote from: LJHOG on Today at 09:37:19 amI don't have a guess.  What the H does AUC mean anyway?

Quote from: bennyl08 on Today at 09:21:40 amSMU plays 2-3 per year, so in 4 years time, they've played as many if not more P5 teams than we did.

You keep saying they aren't supposed to beat a P5 team, but in that same breath are absolutely adamant that they are unquestionably, undebatably, a better team than us. Those are two mutually exclusive statements. It's like saying a junior high football team is better than a HS varsity football team because they have a better record against junior high teams...


Then why did he transfer to SMU?

I'd loooooove to hear your 'logic' on this one. I'll absolutely agree that they aren't the SOLE measure of a good or bad team, and I've never claimed otherwise. But here, you are saying that they aren't even 'a' measure. So what, your measure is just how chummy the players are, with no accounting for athleticism?

Either the word 'and' in your first sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting, or you straight up lying. They are not getting any starters from Ohio St or Michigan. That Michigan player is a RsSr TE who has 2 catches for 15 yards in his career and he's not a glorified TE either. Sure, they got a starter from Miami, a team that has a losing record under Critobal, a factor you seem to care a lot about.

We have 3 transfer 4* players to SMU's one. That BYU player you want to talk down for coming from community college is rated higher by 247 (who knows more than both you and me) than 79% of SMU's transfers and he barely rounds our the bottom of our top third.

But again, don't take my word.

https://247sports.com/Season/2024-Football/OverallTeamRankings/

247 ranks their class as 55th and us 28th. If you only look at the transfer rankings, we are 25th and SMU is still behind us at 30th.

Again, Facts don't care about your feelings.