Anybody care to break down how he would fit with the 2018-19 team and our schollie situation?
Well, I think he could help the team on the court. They'll be thin up front and he will be a grown man at this point (as if he wasn't already). Hard to say how he fits until we finish the '18 class, but you'd think he could get time with Curry, Oturu and Stockman.
Gophers have 5 scholarships available for 2018, assuming Fitzgerald does not get a 6th year or decides to leave. Mason, Fitz, Konate, Lynch and Diedhiou are all leaving.
Oturu has committed leaving 4 scholarships. Therefore, he could easily take one of the remaining 4 if we don't fill out the
class. This would be beneficial in the sense we'd have that scholarship "off the books" after 1 year, breaking up this run of 5 scholarships in a year which is tough to recruit and also replace when those classes graduate.
This is all assuming a lot, but if he wanted to come here, I'd imagine Pitino would be thrilled to add another big body with experience to what will be a pretty young team in 2018-2019 (seniors at the time would be McBrayer, Murphy and Stockman and two WOs. Juniors would be Coffey, Hurt and Curry) but you'd have 4 freshman with Travis if he came and they filled the rest of the class with freshman.