I just took over a very bad mississippi state team. I am planning on running man defense and flex offense. But my problem is what to do with all these bad players on the team. Do I cut a lot of them or just keep them??

Keep the JR's, Arbour, and Pert. Dump the rest.

Okay! Thanks!!

gonna have to recruit a stud PG

Posted by bk41129 on 11/19/2011 8:06:00 AM (view original):
Okay! Thanks!!

I am not an expert, but remember that you do not get any cash when you cut players.

This means you are recruiting the guys you cut with the cash you get for your guys who leave normally.

You have 4 seniors graduating, so that means you have 4 recruits worth of cash.  Also remember that you can only sign 6 freshmen and that almost all decent JUCOs and Transfers are jumped on very early and in my observation cost more than a decent freshman.

So, I would cut 2 guys initially and try to get 6 with money for 4.  As you get close to signing, if you have a couple of JUCOs and can get more than 6 players, you might cut more.

At least that is what I would do.

Right, those other guys are useless though. The goal would be to get the scholly money for the next offseason, by taking a walk-on for the current season. Or he could find a JUCO SO. Either way there's no point in having a player soak up a roster spot.

I might keep Shotwell. Unless recruiting goes really well he'd be likely to be your best bet at PG, for now at least, and ought to be an ok backup through senior yr. Or, if thins are going well in recruiting, I have no problem dumpinghim too. the others besides what sitenavy said are dreck.