“I know the fans are looking forward to me playing and I’m looking forward to playing in front of them,’’ Watson said. “Feeding into the pressure will make me play harder.
“I love the pressure and the expectations. They make people great. End of the day, that’s why I transferred, to play on a bigger stage in front of bigger crowds. If I wasn’t ready for that pressure, I would have stayed at Boston.’’
Sounds like they are both very hard working and determined to help Creighton have a much better season next year. I am excited to see both of them play.
I am really excited for the next season. The past two graduating classes carry a similar legacy and with this group leaving it feels like a new era of Creighton basketball is beginning, if that makes sense.
iamjacobm wrote:I am really excited for the next season. The past two graduating classes carry a similar legacy and with this group leaving it feels like a new era of Creighton basketball is beginning, if that makes sense.
That makes perfect sense, in fact I said something very similar to my father when I talked with him last night hah.
This is the beginning of Creighton being an elite Basketball program. The upward trajectory will continue and Omaha will be known and respected as a quality sports town.
I went to the first round Wisconsin vs Coastal Carolina game and was pretty impressed with what people were saying about how Omaha is an awesome little sports town and with the OM and other food/drink places being so close that the experience is incredible here. They also mentioned how surprised they were at how many people show up here for Creighton games.
I think any elite-level hopes for Creighton is off in an unforeseeable future, as the players on the team and/or recruited to the team, are not exactly what a program needs to sustain itself in any reasonable run in a NCAA tourney, maybe not even in the Big East.
I've followed sports in this state for a while, and the general feel I'm getting is that the drought in Lincoln is indefinite (sans women's sports as a possibility), and same with Creighton. The move to the Big East, has damaged the baseball program, and the basketball program may never have had the infrastructure to compete in a conference superior to the Valley to begin with.
I think its going to be a rough ten years.
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Wow, that is sad to hear. I was really hoping that he would get big minutes this year and have a huge impact. Usually I don't mind when some guys transfer, but I think CU is going to miss him. Best of luck to LGIII.
I wish we just could of gotten a better look at him this year. He certainly is a better athlete than we are usually recruiting, but I never got the sense that he was as skilled as the players that seem to thrive under Coach Mac, not meant as a he sucked anyways type of comment just observations from very limited mins. Will be interesting to see what level of program he lands at, I hope he does well.
Apparently was kicked out of KSU for copious amounts of weed sessions. Hmmm a great player that loves smoking weed and plays at Craytin, where have I seen this before?
Linkin5 wrote:Apparently was kicked out of KSU for copious amounts of weed sessions. Hmmm a great player that loves smoking weed and plays at Craytin, where have I seen this before?
At least use the standard issue Nebraska fan lingo of "Craydone" and "Cra-y-ton". "Craytin" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
That is awesome for Creighton. There were a few guys they missed on this past week, but Foster is the one they really wanted. He is yet another guy that has proven that he can play D-1.
Linkin5 wrote:Apparently was kicked out of KSU for copious amounts of weed sessions. Hmmm a great player that loves smoking weed and plays at Craytin, where have I seen this before?
I have not seen his name associated with weed. Can you provide a link stating so?
Linkin5 wrote:Apparently was kicked out of KSU for copious amounts of weed sessions. Hmmm a great player that loves smoking weed and plays at Craytin, where have I seen this before?
I have not seen his name associated with weed. Can you provide a link stating so?
There's nothing official but that is what k state boards were saying.
skinzfan23 wrote:That is what I am confused by. Is this a home and away or a Big East/Big 10 tournament?
Either way, we're facing Indiana next year so that's a good tough matchup for RPI purposes. So we have a chance at either 2-0 against the Big 10 with a win over a name Indiana team, or 1-1 against the Big Ten next year. I can dig that.
Linkin5 wrote:Apparently was kicked out of KSU for copious amounts of weed sessions. Hmmm a great player that loves smoking weed and plays at Craytin, where have I seen this before?
I have not seen his name associated with weed. Can you provide a link stating so?
There's nothing official but that is what k state boards were saying.
Who can trust bulletin boards
I heard (Kansas City Star) it was (last straw) him posting pics of him and his boys wasted (on alcohol, not drugs).
I prefer facts from fish wrap.
Coyote wrote:
There's nothing official but that is what k state boards were saying.
Who can trust bulletin boards
I heard (Kansas City Star) it was (last straw) him posting pics of him and his boys wasted (on alcohol, not drugs).
I prefer facts from fish wrap.
We have known about the Instagram picture and that may have been the last straw, but there is no way that pic alone could have warranted kicking a player off the program.
iamjacobm wrote:P'Allen was loved before he was hated.
After hearing lately about Marcus Foster I think that analogy might be right on.
Word is after his freshman year everyone was telling him how great he was and it went to his head.
He didn't practice much last year and became a problem in the locker room.
Hopefully taking a year off will help him find out what is important to him and his team.
Since the staff tried to get him before he went Wildcat, hopefully they know how to tame him.
iamjacobm wrote:Jays get Arizona St at home on Dec 2nd.
Should be a good game. Hopefully Arizona has a team similar to the one 2 years ago. At that time they were 6-0 when the Jays beat them 88-60. This past year, they only finished 19-16.
But with everything the Bluejays have to offer — a new practice facility, an NBA-like arena that is usually filled to capacity and the opportunity to face top-flight competition — the school could find itself increasingly attractive to players looking for a fresh start.
When Omaha hosted NCAA tournament games in March, four of the teams worked out at CU’s practice facility. Players from Oklahoma State, Indiana, Oregon and Wisconsin were filling up their phones with pictures of the state-of-the-art facility.
“I think we’re attractive to guys looking to transfer because of the fact that we play fast, there is a lot of freedom in our offense, we shoot a lot of 3s and we play in front of 17,000 people,” McDermott said. “Then, when we get guys here, they see it’s a special place because of our facilities.
“Some guys come from places where basketball isn’t that important, even at the BCS level. To go somewhere where they really care about basketball is a big selling point.”
The NCAA men's rules committee announced a range of rules proposals Friday -- including a 30-second shot clock, an extension of the restricted-area arc and fewer second-half timeouts -- it hopes will accelerate a game that has faced widespread criticism for increasingly paltry scoring and too-frequent stoppages throughout the past decade.
