I hope he stays, because even if Ponds can run the point, Mullin was on his way to building a backcourt that featured 2 point guards. I wonder if Lovett sees Ponds tearing it up his senior year, and he feels like he'll be coming off the bench with Ponds and Mussini starting. Mussini isn't a point guard, and he's limited as a 2 guard as well, but that doesn't mean that Lovett isn't thinking I came to start, and if I'm not going to, I'm outa here.
This is why "playing time" as a recruiting strategy destroyed Norm Roberts.