Predarat said:

3 on 3 21 halfcourt is an Olympic Sport now? Did not know that until the other day.

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I watched a few minutes of the mens USA vs somebody the other day. It was the most god awful display of basketball I have ever seen. Unbelievable how bad they were.

And.... Let's be real. It's so much easier to get decent players here than at Vandy. Even with NIL. VU's academic requirements plus before NIL limited them a whole lot. The school kept it's overall student trust money away from the athletic program which is like 2B now. So they couldn't lure anyone there over a UT, UF, UGA, or BAMA. They still can't now with NIL. However, with Jerry Kill going there, they did get Diego Pavia to portal in. That's the QB who throttled Auburn and took NMSU to a 10 win season. It's crazy that Mason had 2 6 win seasons there and crushed us 4 years straight. With the guys we are getting commitments from now vs. under Stock really tells the story as to why we weren't improving. It's like laughable now.

Google: Mijain Lopez

5 gold medals in 5 different Olympics. Greco Roman Wrestling

6’5” 290
Last Olympics gold medal match his opponent quit.

Hasn’t surrendered a point in 10 years

After last Olympics he “retired” and took 3 years off. Didn’t compete in a single match between that and this Olympics and just won the 5th gold.

MTFAN61 said:

After watching these videos, & seeing the drive & communication skills of the coaching staff there is one huge thought that comes to mind. How the devil did CDM get these coaches especially the defensive co-ordinator, & special team's coach to come to a smaller G5 school? After seeing & listening to some of these guys in even short interviews you would have imagined a lot of P4 schools would have been clamoring to have them on their staff's.
Anyway, count me as super impressed. The supposed P4 schools losses in not grabbing these coaches up are MT's gains. CDM has to be one heck of a salesman.

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I agree 100%. I personally feel CDM's NFL experience helped. Yes he was only there for a few years, but it gives him an extra level of connections that the previous staff just didn't have.

Not to mention his college stops. Gundy has been around so long he knows everyone. Same for Harbaugh from when Mason was at Stanford. Those are both easy calls to say "hey, who do you see that I should look at?" Add to that time talking to everyone at every level while with ESPN.

Mason has also mentioned before how he was hired here early in the cycle giving him time to truly build a staff he wanted. Has said he didn't have that at Vandy as he wasn't hired until January there. We hired him almost 6 weeks earlier in the cycle.

After watching these videos, & seeing the drive & communication skills of the coaching staff there is one huge thought that comes to mind. How the devil did CDM get these coaches especially the defensive co-ordinator, & special team's coach to come to a smaller G5 school? After seeing & listening to some of these guys in even short interviews you would have imagined a lot of P4 schools would have been clamoring to have them on their staff's.
Anyway, count me as super impressed. The supposed P4 schools losses in not grabbing these coaches up are MT's gains. CDM has to be one heck of a salesman.

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SpaceRaider said:

A 3.5 hour marathon podcast. Is that the longest podcast you guys have done?

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It’s gotta be lol. Was exciting to see first practice under this staff in full length and to hear from double digit people

will add in here that after today, it seems as Xavier Williams is running as QB2 right now. Was putting in extra work with Myles Butler after practice today as well.