04/23: BYU beats Kentucky and Texas Tech for the best transfer on the market; sizing up the best first-year coaches from 2019-20
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We're now in a time that features a second-year coach of a WCC program beating out the likes of John Calipari and Chris Beard for the most coveted transfer on the market. Your Thursday Eye on College Basketball Podcast opens with Matt Haarms choosing BYU, then the guys get into Norlander's ranking of the 12 most impressive first-year coaches (10:15) from the 2019-20 season. This is a BYU kind of episode: Cougars coach Mark Pope is No. 1, but Parrish has huge issues with the coach at No. 6. The pod closes with thoughts on whether Gonzaga can retain Filip Petrusev and/or Corey Kispert in advance of Sunday's draft declaration deadline. And to end the episode, a special thanks and sincere shoutout to a specific faction of our listenership, who we need to address directly and with profound gratitude.
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| 0:58.6 | On the day of Matt Harms announced he was leaving Purdue, |
| 1:23.2 | I don't know anybody who had BYU as the likely destination so in that sense this is a little surprising you surprise mad harm is gonna be a BYU Cougar next season yeah I mean five six days ago I thought that my harms was headed for Kentucky so clearly mark Pope was able to convince him that and harm says obviously spoken with the number of outlets here who coincided their coverage with the announcement that he would be going to BYU. |
| 1:51.7 | That things like receiving a bunch of shoes the quality of a locker room doesn't matter to him he wants to go to a spot where frankly he has the best chance at the most production for his final year of college basketball again whenever that might start there it's a really nice get for BYU. |
| 2:13.0 | You also have a you've got a player here who is coveted but I wonder you know he's good I just let's not overrate him in the process kind of deal here we did this a year ago to a certain set with Kerry Blacks year junior with Florida he wanted to be a fine player but not nearly as good as he was hyped to be that to a certain extent happen the season before with re Travis who went to Kentucky and certainly had some moments but I would |
| 2:43.0 | say he didn't quite match the hype frankly just to keep it in Kentucky Nate Sistina was not as good as I think we would have been led to believe heading into last season as a graduate transfer leaving the Patriot League to go and join UK and that's nothing to say with anything with UK they do an amazing job of developing talent there but let's just keep it all in perspective Matt harms has been a seven foot three role player for the past three seasons at Purdue he wanted a new opportunity he can definitely help BYU be better but I don't think that he is |
| 3:13.0 | going to go to BYU and suddenly turn into a top 50 or 75 player in college basketball I think his window for that would have been the past two seasons he couldn't crack through it he's a fine player certainly a notable one a seven foot three guy that's been on a relevant team the past three seasons BYU gets a good one but if you're Kentucky fan or a Texas tech fan yeah it would have been nice to have him but I don't think not having Matt harms makes a you know a season altering projection for either of those programs while they would have been better with the |
| 3:43.0 | Adam by not having them it's not like you've lost out on something great otherwise right listen Matt harms was coveted to this degree and became like a legitimate national story |
| 3:57.0 | because he's the best thing available but he's the best thing available to use a possibly poor analogy is like walking into a bar and that here's the best looking person |
| 4:09.9 | male or female I am trying I'm not trying to get sex this year male or female here's the best looking person in the bar but the bar is mostly filled with ugly people you know that's what Matt harms is he's a perfectly somewhat attractive person in a bar filled with ugly people so everybody wants that person he would have mattered at Kentucky if only because you know Kentucky returns zero front core players I don't mean zero good ones I mean zero |
| 4:39.9 | they were and this is the first time I believe this is true they they return zero front court players and they're not enrolling a single five star front court player and by front court player I mean somebody that it's listed by the recruiting websites as a powerful word or a center so they have no traditional biggs on the roster now they'll get by they'll be fine but they have no traditional biggs on the roster so missing Matt harms hurts them to that degree |
| 5:09.9 | Texas Tech could use a rim protecting center the team that played for the national championship couple years ago certainly had one but yes you know they didn't just miss out on frankly somebody as good as Kerry Blackshear you know they they just missed out on the best traditional big available and I will say on the surface I'm a little surprised by it you know BYU is losing its top three scores including your only child actually losing for the top five |
| 5:39.9 | and five of the top seven from a very good team a team that finished 13th at KIPPAM they were legitimate final four candidates I think but like BYU is not a preseason top twenty-five team I'm not even sure if BYU's a preseason projected NCAA tournament team and so when I talk about these things I always preface it with listen what matters to me might not matter to somebody else in vice versa but what I think would matter to me if I were Matt harms as I want to go somewhere if I'm going to leave Purdue which is an important |
| 6:09.9 | incredible program I want to go somewhere where I can maybe achieve more while playing a prominent role and he had that opportunity at Kentucky and he had that opportunity at Texas Tech and that's why I'm a little surprised that he picked BYU but by all accounts Mark and his staff just did an incredible job of making him feel comfortable of building a certain level of trust they seem to make a really big significant impact on him and that speaks what of the BYU |
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