Bryce Drew

So I think that, I think that what we're going to say, and you know, we've talked about it before, right? The last couple of seasons have been a little underwhelming.

Obviously there's like no concern at all that like Bryce Drew's on the hot seat or anything like that.

Um, cause I know that's been, that's been a thing, right? This year, if this team underperformed, I think that might become a conversation.

The question is what is underperforming look like? Uh, and you know, we'll talk about the non-comfort schedule and we'll, we'll see what we think.

It's funny that you, you know, bring that up, Zach.

I just listened to our podcast episode from the end of last season and we had a lengthy discussion about hot seats involving Bryce Drew.

So, um,

We did.

But I thought it was – they could probably figure it out.

You're not going to turn Henley down because he was a big part of the program last year, and if Drew didn't like his fit, he wouldn't have – allowed him to come back, I guess.

I am concerned with if they're all eligible.

As you guys said, there is no way short of them playing like Grinnell that they can all get the minutes that they're going to be happy with, okay? And I know some of the argument is, well, they don't care because they're getting paid.

Or wait, I don't know.

Two years ago, they were very talented and didn't really mesh.

And so Bryce Drew has history with this.

And he's going to have his hands full here if everybody's eligible.

Todd Licklider.

I mean, look at Bruce Pearl, right? You mentioned Dennis Gates, Brad Brunel, Bryce Drew was in the horizon at a time.

So a lot of these guys, a good stepping stone league that I think can take off to a higher elevated job, a little more facilities, maybe even a P5.

So I don't think it's by any means too big of a jump.

So we have a lot of like, I think we have a situation where we just have a lot of good players, uh, who probably can earn playing time.

And so it's going to be like, what, how does Bryce drew make this work? How do the guys look together? Can we be a unit? Um, those are my kind of questions because, but I mean, everyone nationally is talking about the talent of this roster, right? This is a talented team.

And assuming the guys are, you know, assuming we're actually allowed, these guys are allowed to play.

It's going to be a discussion of like, what are they going to look like as a unit?

As far as my questions about the biggest storyline or questions heading into the season, I mean, you guys had great questions, and I'm totally with you on those.

But trying to expand a little bit upon that or beyond that, I would say, are we going to... are we going to get an efficient offense this year? Uh, what's it going to look like on that end? Or, I mean, you guys mentioned, you know, how many guards we have on the roster and, you know, if for some reason we have an opportunity to keep them all on the roster, how is that going to play out? Um, I think I mentioned to you guys, or maybe on Twitter, I can't remember via text sometime, maybe this summer, but Hey, if we have all these guards, maybe we could like VCU it, you know, circa 2011, just go completely crazy with like pressing and, and, you know, pace up the game a little bit, try and get some turnovers and all that stuff.

You know, uh, that's just, that's not really the way Bryce drew does things.

So I'm probably guessing that's not going to be the case, but he is a defensive minded coach and we know that he likes to turn defense into offense as often as possible.

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Have you heard? Bryce Drew, Homer Drew, Valpo versus Ole Miss, 1998 NCAA tournament, one of the great Sweet 16 shots of all time.

That's how I know Valparaiso.

Yeah, and the team that

Like, they're not gonna beat anybody.

I mean, Bryce Drew went 0 for the entire season one year at Vanderbilt, so I'm just saying, if Bryce Drew didn't have that bad of a roster, I mean, I know he had some injuries that year, but he didn't win a single game.

Do you... [laughs] I mean, Will Wade, they brought him back.

He, you gotta win at least a couple of SEC games, right? I mean, I know that he kind of went all in on the pro players who now aren't eligible to be-