Post by Commissioner on Aug 21, 2018 23:18:04 GMT -5
After rooting for the Titans to do well, I next like to see individual Titans do well, and I think it's kind of fun to monitor players as they work their way up the Titans' all-time lists. With only three returning players this year, two of whom have never nailed down regular starting jobs, we won't see many milestones this year. Those we will see--at least in terms of career performance--will probably all come from Josh McFolley.
McFolley currently has 1038 career points, good for 38th on the Titans all-time list. He should start passing people no later than the 3rd game of the season (hopefully no later than the second, and perhaps the first). Immediately ahead of him are Larry Salci (1059 points from 1966-68) and Ray Albee (1062 from 1960-62). If McFolley stays healthy and plays in 32 games (the minimum on the Titans schedule), he would move all the way to 13th on the Titans all-time list, between Bill Ebben (1955-57) and Norm Swanson (1950-53), by averaging 14.3 ppg (Josh averaged 13.8 as a soph). Of course, it's a lot easier to score 1000 points than it used to be. When Ebben (a third team All-American) played, you only had 3 years of eligibility, and far fewer games per season. Ebben played in 77 games in 3 years; McFolley has already played in 93. Still, that's pretty good company. Josh can crack the top 20, displacing Brian Humes (1984-87), merely by staying healthy and averaging 10.5 ppg.
McFolley is already 8th all-time in career three pointers, with 167. Just ahead of him, tied with 169, are Jason Calliste (2011-13) and Greg Grays (2001-02). After that it will take a few games to catch 5th place Jon Goode (202, 2005-08). With 69 threes (he hit 71 as a soph) Josh will pass Desmond Ferguson and move into 2nd all-time for Titan threes, behind Rashad Phillips. No way he catches Phillips. Three pointers, of course, only date back to 1987.
Josh currently ranks 9th on the Titans list for career steals, where records begin only in 1976. Josh's first steal of the year will tie him with Bill Wood (1987-1990) for 8th, but Josh needs just 50 (he had 62 as a soph) to displace Jerry Davis (1979-82) as #1 on the Titans all-time list. He just needs to equal his freshman total of 35 steals to move up to #4 on the list, behind Davis, Woody Payne (2006-2010), and Rashad Phillips (1998-2001), and ahead of Ray McCallum (2011-13).
Josh had made 76.2% of his career free throw attempts, which places him just outside the Top 10 (#10 is Gerald Smith, who made 76.5% from 1971-73). He'll crack the top 10 if he replicates last year's totals. A season like his sophomore year, when he topped 80%, would have him battling with Kevin McAdoo (77.8% from 1983-86) and John Long (77.7% from 1975-78) for 6th and 7th place, depending on the number of attempts.
On the single season front, Josh already has the 6th highest steal total (62 as a soph) and could definitely rack up another top 10 performance. The record is 80 by Roy Simms in 1983, so Josh would need to up his totals quite a bit to catch that, but he could certainly threaten the 3rd best total ever (currently 66 by Woody Payne in 2009). He needs 74 three pointers for a top 10 single year total--his best so far was 71 in 2017. He would need to hit 84.5% of his free throws to crack the top ten, and 41.5% of his three point attempts. Both are considerably better than he's done, but certainly seem possible.
Outside of Josh, Antoine Davis is the best bet to keep alive the Titans' 5 year streak of having a player on the all-freshman team, a Horizon league best. The last five have been Jared Williams, Paris Bass, McFolley, Corey Allen and Jermaine Jackson. Sadly, McFolley will be only the 2nd of those 5 to play all 4 years with the Titans.
McFolley currently has 1038 career points, good for 38th on the Titans all-time list. He should start passing people no later than the 3rd game of the season (hopefully no later than the second, and perhaps the first). Immediately ahead of him are Larry Salci (1059 points from 1966-68) and Ray Albee (1062 from 1960-62). If McFolley stays healthy and plays in 32 games (the minimum on the Titans schedule), he would move all the way to 13th on the Titans all-time list, between Bill Ebben (1955-57) and Norm Swanson (1950-53), by averaging 14.3 ppg (Josh averaged 13.8 as a soph). Of course, it's a lot easier to score 1000 points than it used to be. When Ebben (a third team All-American) played, you only had 3 years of eligibility, and far fewer games per season. Ebben played in 77 games in 3 years; McFolley has already played in 93. Still, that's pretty good company. Josh can crack the top 20, displacing Brian Humes (1984-87), merely by staying healthy and averaging 10.5 ppg.
McFolley is already 8th all-time in career three pointers, with 167. Just ahead of him, tied with 169, are Jason Calliste (2011-13) and Greg Grays (2001-02). After that it will take a few games to catch 5th place Jon Goode (202, 2005-08). With 69 threes (he hit 71 as a soph) Josh will pass Desmond Ferguson and move into 2nd all-time for Titan threes, behind Rashad Phillips. No way he catches Phillips. Three pointers, of course, only date back to 1987.
Josh currently ranks 9th on the Titans list for career steals, where records begin only in 1976. Josh's first steal of the year will tie him with Bill Wood (1987-1990) for 8th, but Josh needs just 50 (he had 62 as a soph) to displace Jerry Davis (1979-82) as #1 on the Titans all-time list. He just needs to equal his freshman total of 35 steals to move up to #4 on the list, behind Davis, Woody Payne (2006-2010), and Rashad Phillips (1998-2001), and ahead of Ray McCallum (2011-13).
Josh had made 76.2% of his career free throw attempts, which places him just outside the Top 10 (#10 is Gerald Smith, who made 76.5% from 1971-73). He'll crack the top 10 if he replicates last year's totals. A season like his sophomore year, when he topped 80%, would have him battling with Kevin McAdoo (77.8% from 1983-86) and John Long (77.7% from 1975-78) for 6th and 7th place, depending on the number of attempts.
On the single season front, Josh already has the 6th highest steal total (62 as a soph) and could definitely rack up another top 10 performance. The record is 80 by Roy Simms in 1983, so Josh would need to up his totals quite a bit to catch that, but he could certainly threaten the 3rd best total ever (currently 66 by Woody Payne in 2009). He needs 74 three pointers for a top 10 single year total--his best so far was 71 in 2017. He would need to hit 84.5% of his free throws to crack the top ten, and 41.5% of his three point attempts. Both are considerably better than he's done, but certainly seem possible.
Outside of Josh, Antoine Davis is the best bet to keep alive the Titans' 5 year streak of having a player on the all-freshman team, a Horizon league best. The last five have been Jared Williams, Paris Bass, McFolley, Corey Allen and Jermaine Jackson. Sadly, McFolley will be only the 2nd of those 5 to play all 4 years with the Titans.