Rambler63 wrote:
There are a multitude of reasons that players transfer: homesickness, playing time, personality conflicts w/ coach(es), lack of winning, uncomfortable with the direction of program, don't like the school, life event (family illness/financial issues), coaching change, recruiting changes (new recruit at your position), uncomfortable with culture, etc. Most, but not all, of the reasons go back to the coach. Some of the possibilities can be eliminated when you find out where the player goes. If Johnson and Pickett go to schools farther away from where they're from, you can eliminate a few of the non-coaching reasons, and if they go to places where they're going to be stuck behind a higher-profile recruit, you can eliminate others. Then you're down to pure issues with the coach.
If you combine the deliberate/de facto run-offs (
Brito,
Stanley,
Kadima,
Kindred,
Gac,
Adams,
Neary,
Winborne, etc.) with the transfers/back-outs (C. Payne, Q. Payne,
Williams,
Stalyga, Johnson, Pickett), it's a disturbing pattern.
Winborne came and left under Whitesell. I also don't recall us ever having Stalyga in our program. Volleyball doesn't count for men's basketball. But the current Porter Moser scorecard right now is:
Whitesell recruits who left (8):
1. Brito
2. Stanley
3. Kadima
4. Kindred
5. Gac
6. Adams
7. Neary
8. Colin Beatty (recruited by Whitesell, signed LOI, never came)
Moser recruits who left (6):
9. C. Payne
10. Q. Payne
11. K. Williams
12. Johnson
13. Pickett
14. Hill
14 players in less than 3 seasons. That has to be abnormal even in the current state of college basketball. And of course, the Moser list could still grow- I withheld both Tanner Williams and Jeremy King for now.
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