Loved Amar's passion and spirit -- a very good teammate -- but none of Lavin's 3 holdovers were Big East caliber players. Faced with a decreased role going forward, he opted to choose a school where he can be featured. Good move, as he probably still has a pro career waiting for him back in Europe, but sitting on the end of our bench next year was not going to help him.
Will miss him because he was a high character kid, but we need to get better talent before we will play better ball and compete night in and night out in the Big East.
Next year's team should be considerably better. Still more changes coming, and now we can bring on a couple of high impact grad transfers to contribute immediately if the staff decides that's the best way to get better faster.