Rawane Ndiaye to Officially visit this weekend per TOS

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I agree with BTO, this guy simply takes the last two years of Yemi's scholly, plays Yemi's minutes which were limited at best and with JM and Davis next year might have gone down, and he doesn't effect the status of any future bigs they are recruiting. Plus who knows who they tried to get in on and it didn't work out.
 
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That makes sense BTO but hopefully we aren't that desperate. There has to be somebody else with more potential. This guy seems like a liability.
 
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Quinn says he has a committable offer...Lewis says its a done deal...and Rucker says he hasn't committed because he doesn't have a committable offer...love Knoxville media.
 
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Does this guy have any sort of film for me to watch before completely losing it? even just him running up/down a court or talking or anything....?????
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Here's the deal, if it plays out like it sounds I get it. Stokes and McRae return, Yemu is transferring and Landry isn't coming in. Next years team would have ONE center and that's Jarnell Stokes who doesn't even want to play center. If Stokes gets in foul trouble who is playing the 5, or even to spell stokes? Maymon is 6'6", Reese would be the next tallest at 6'9", but we all know he's not a center. So...the staff HAD to add a big, and one that preferably could play right away and has the size to give SEC bigs some problems. Issue is, there aren't any decent high school bigs left out there, there were some JUCO bigs, but I don't know, maybe the staff liked what they saw.

This isn't a case where we are adding projects to a roster, you are (if it played out like it appears) trading Yemi for this guy basically....he's 6'11"-7' something we definitely don't have on our roster. I'm not thrilled about it, but I also realize that we desperately need size if Yemi is leaving...and if Yemi told the staff he was leaving and the staff thought Stokes may go...I'd say they were probably desperate.

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That just means we have a player on the floor who can't cut it in SEC play and becomes the obvious weakness to exploit. Who cares if he's tall if he is utterly useless as a player? I'd rather have an undersize guy in the 5 spot than some dude who's great height afforded him 3 whole blocked shots last year. For the season.
 
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If Yemi is indeed transferring, I understand the scramble to find a serviceable post backup. That said, there are still a plethora of quality to average post players to choose from.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Quinn says he has a committable offer...Lewis says its a done deal...and Rucker says he hasn't committed because he doesn't have a committable offer...love Knoxville media.
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Just a guess, but I'd say it's still conditional in the respect that they are awaiting some announcement from either Stokes or Yemi. Sounds like one or the other is lined up to go, but it just hasn't been announced yet. And, since Ndiaye doesn't seem to have any other offers, it isn't like someone else will jump on him during the wait.
 
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Unimane said:
That just means we have a player on the floor who can't cut it in SEC play and becomes the obvious weakness to exploit. Who cares if he's tall if he is utterly useless as a player? I'd rather have an undersize guy in the 5 spot than some dude who's great height afforded him 3 whole blocked shots last year. For the season.
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Not saying He'a this guy, but look at Moussa Gueye at Alabama. His stats aren't good 1.4ppg 3.9rpg, but his height defensively bothered Stokes and without him we may have swept Bama this year.

I'm not thrilled about this pickup (If it happens), but we are basically trading Yemi for this guy. Yemi wasnt playing anyways and really fell off at the end of the year. You mention an obvious weakness, it's not like he's going to play 30mpg. He will probably get 5-8 minutes a game and basically be a guy that gives us some height and 5 more fouls.

If Yemi is transferring the staff had to get someone, they obviously liked what they saw with this guy, I'll wait till I see him before bashing.
 
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TennesseeFan07 said:
If Yemi is indeed transferring, I understand the scramble to find a serviceable post backup. That said, there are still a plethora of quality to average post players to choose from.
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Exactly, they HAD to get someone, especially if they feel like Stokes may go...then they probably add another big, so they were desperately looking for one it seems.

That's my reservation is that there are other JUCO bigs out there who appear much better than Ndiaye (there's really nothing left of HS bigs)...however, JUCO can be weird sometimes and Ndiaye was evaluated by multiple Tennessee coaches over the last couple months, they must have seen something, hopefully it translates.
 
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Panther said:
I agree with BTO, this guy simply takes the last two years of Yemi's scholly, plays Yemi's minutes which were limited at best and with JM and Davis next year might have gone down, and he doesn't effect the status of any future bigs they are recruiting. Plus who knows who they tried to get in on and it didn't work out.
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Exactly!

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Maybe Yemi leaves, we have an extra scholarship for '14 when Zo actually has some very highly rated players interested.

Yeah, I think I go with option #2 instead of wasting a scholarship on a guy that will never see the floor :question:
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Exactly, they HAD to get someone, especially if they feel like Stokes may go...then they probably add another big, so they were desperately looking for one it seems.

That's my reservation is that there are other JUCO bigs out there who appear much better than Ndiaye (there's really nothing left of HS bigs)...however, JUCO can be weird sometimes and Ndiaye was evaluated by multiple Tennessee coaches over the last couple months, they must have seen something, hopefully it translates.
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Maybe they watched him in the games where he had double digit rebounding efforts.
Played sparingly. fouls a lot. Suspended for fighting on court.
Big big body. trading a yemi for a bigger yemi.
Who knows.
 
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I think the big guy will be a Vol now and regardless of his stats time to support him and hope he can help us win next season.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
That's my reservation is that there are other JUCO bigs out there who appear much better than Ndiaye (there's really nothing left of HS bigs)...however, JUCO can be weird sometimes and Ndiaye was evaluated by multiple Tennessee coaches over the last couple months, they must have seen something, hopefully it translates.
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What about Tarik Black? He's graduating, so it would have been immediate playing time and we would have the big 3 down low
 
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NYC Vol said:
Exactly!

OR

Maybe Yemi leaves, we have an extra scholarship for '14 when Zo actually has some very highly rated players interested.

Yeah, I think I go with option #2 instead of wasting a scholarship on a guy that will never see the floor :question:
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Maybe if scholarships were tight but at least 4 guys are leaving next year and possibly as many as 6 if UT has a great year. Martin will have plenty of scholarships for next year's class.
 
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NYC Vol said:
Exactly!

OR

Maybe Yemi leaves, we have an extra scholarship for '14 when Zo actually has some very highly rated players interested.

Yeah, I think I go with option #2 instead of wasting a scholarship on a guy that will never see the floor :question:
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And play who at center next year if 1. stokes goes pro or 2. stokes returns, but say gets injured/foul trouble???
 
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calban said:
Maybe they watched him in the games where he had double digit rebounding efforts.
Played sparingly. fouls a lot. Suspended for fighting on court.
Big big body. trading a yemi for a bigger yemi.
Who knows.
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Guy on VQ posted this...

Just some facts. The guy basically rebounds and fouls.

Games played: 13
Minutes played: 96
Personal Fouls: 13
Fouls per 40 minutes: 5.4
Free Throws: 4-10 (40%)
Total rebounds: 45 (approx 1 rebound per 2 minutes on court)
Rebounds per 40 minutes: 18.75
Total blocks on season: 3
Points per 40 minutes: 13.3
Total turnovers 9:
Turnovers per 40 minutes: 3.75
 
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shanman- said:
What about Tarik Black? He's graduating, so it would have been immediate playing time and we would have the big 3 down low
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Would be perfect, he would have to be interested in Tennessee though...don't know that he is, and I'm guessing Tennessee at least called.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
And play who at center next year if 1. stokes goes pro or 2. stokes returns, but say gets injured/foul trouble???
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Looks like AJ Davis. Find someone. There's better options out there. And if there aren't, then play an unconventional lineup.

Here's the deal...you don't realize what an indictment of this staff what you wrote above in your defense of this staff. Can you read what you just wrote? If Stokes goes pro, we have to rely on a guy that played 9 mins a game at JUCO and avg 2 pts and 3 rebounds a game.

Think about what we've signed instead of another big man or a project that could help us. Edwards, Washpun, Reese, Landry, Miller. Wasted scholarships. And for him to already sign 2 JUCOs that haven't played at all is almost criminal. He's about to waste a 3rd scholarship on another.
 
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zansdad said:
Maybe if scholarships were tight but at least 4 guys are leaving next year and possibly as many as 6 if UT has a great year. Martin will have plenty of scholarships for next year's class.
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So the rationale is let's just go out and waste a scholarship? It's almost like Zo is being compensated for filling schollies.
 
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