Tony Skinn

You look at a potential All-A-10, potential player of the year type guard with the type of season that we saw him have last year at Mercer, just electric scorer, super fast, huge fan.

And then Elabor to me, and Tyler, we've talked about this all offseason, just like how many of the big, burly, physical, athletic, just like... strong 6'4", 6'5", 6'6", guards as George Mason had under Tony Skin.

This just feels like a perfect culture fit.

Well, and I talked to Tony Skin over the summer, and I threw him what I thought was going to just be an easy softball lob of, well, who are you relying on to spearhead the perimeter defense, thinking that Elabor was going to be his answer.

And he, without hesitation, shouted the name of Makai Valentine.

who I don't think we've even talked about in this segment yet.

They're going to have a good team.

Tony Skin's done a good job, and I think he's going to be in the coaching carousel mix again.

I'm more aggressive on Mason than maybe you'll find anywhere else, but they've got a lot back, and I like their style of play.

I like what they can do there.

General takeaways, I think George Mason will be tough to beat as usual.

Tony Skinn's a great coach, and it is kind of surprising he hasn't bounced yet, but I'm sure that'll come eventually.

I do think it matters that he obviously played for the Final Four team, has a lot of ties, etc.

Interesting teams...

Commander of Speed.

Two great coaches, Vanessa Blair, Lewis, and Tony Skin.

Much respect and much love for both of them.

I'm going to tell you right now, when I saw Tony Skin's roster, He's got a bunch of guys that are hungry.

And then I was at a practice for Vanessa Blair Lewis, and she is just such a talented coach.

Yeah, I had her on my podcast.

I was going to say, so I had this written down and I was like, yeah, I'm going to throw Colgate out there and everyone's going to be like, why would they take such a big step back? And I was going to bitch about how they're getting away from their staple culture.

But Tony Skin's kid is going to Colgate.

So not only do we need to keep that in mind when handicapping George Mason this year is he told his kid to kick rocks, but yeah, Tony Skin's kid at Colgate, he's got to be athletic, long, and lanky, just like Tony Skin.

I think that might save them from being a stocked-down team.

So I don't know.

They're good.

They've had, you know, since Tony Skin's been there, Tony's an alum of George Mason, was the point guard of that Final Four team.

They've gone 20 wins, 20 wins, 20 wins.

And then Bradley, Coach Wardle, Brian Wardle, played at Marquette, big-time player there, has a home in St. Pete, believe it or not.