We don't have one upperclassmen who has been a part of this program for more than one season who isn't named Amar Alibegovic. This team is no more experienced than the team we had last year. Simon has almost no experience. You can't drop that name because he was supposed to be good two years ago.
Having a BE season begins you is great, but this program has been left vulnerable by one careless decision after another by the staff. It's put up or shut up time.
Agree, it's really short sighted of Mullin not to have any fourth year players after two full years of coaching.
Good thing we got rid of Lavin's nonsense. If we hadn't, we wouldn't have had 5 upperclassmen transfer. It's as if we've hired Norm Roberts.
We had one upperclassman transfer, the walk on. Sima was a sophomore, Ellison was a sophomore, Mussini and RF turned pro, and Williams graduated.
Other than that you make your usual good points.
Sima, Ellison, Mussini and Holifield would have been upperclassmen. If they had stayed, they'd be juniors. You see, that's what comes after sophomore. Williams would have been a grad student big man who would have played his 3rd season at St.John's. You make it sound like he graduated and left the college game. He's playing this season. Freudenberg would have been a sophomore. It's hard to gage how significant that loss is, but a mass exodus is a mass exodus.
Sima, Williams, Ellison, Mussini, Freudenberg, Wilson and Holifield have jumped ship. We will be short handed this season at some point and it could have been avoided but the staff had a better plan. Well, this is their program, so let's see how their plan comes together.