What could the reason possibly be not to fill the roster at least with grad transfers? Saving money to pay Slice? Let's get another big or two?
You make it sound so simple. Kids dont want to come here.
Grad Transfers are transferring for a reason, they want to get something out of their last year of collegiate basketball. Maybe more playing time, maybe a tournament run, maybe a fresh start.
If we had 25-30 minutes of playing time for a "Grad Transfer Big" I'm sure someone would've chosen us by now.
But what would that have done to Tariq Owens or Marvin Clark or even Yakwe. Those guys wouldn't be happy.
What we needed was a freshman big that could learn and contribute off the bench to help us down the road. Unfortunately we struck out likely because of the trans kid. Our biggest mistake/gaffe this offseason was not locking down French.