Why does everyone take it as gospel that Amar was forced out? Mullin, Slice and St. Jean would never say that directly to an insider, someone around the university, or a reporter. I think it was more about Amar's desire to play than the info being passed around suggests.
Amar probably saw the writing on the wall with Owens finishing his redshirt and the staff recruiting Clark and Livingston. With Livingston out of the picture, there was a need for his services and minutes available.
That is a really depressing scenario. So the 7th man on the worst BE team ever figured the team would be improved and to get PT he should transfer. Then he says wait a minute this team is not going to be that I good afterall, I will probably play. Very bleak outlook for us if this was indeed the scenario.
If you were Amar and you were confident you could get much better as an upperclassmen if given a chance to play, would you stick around after your team adds an older all-conference rebounding machine whose main appeal of weight and strength is the only thing that you have that separates you from Sima, RF, Yakwe, and Owens? It would be foolish with Clark and Ahmed not to mention Ellison and the terrific back court squeezing your pt from the other end.
Then you see the all-conference 5th-year senior isn't coming, and heading back to your only friends and basically everything you know in foreign country doesn't look so bad.