Minor quibble but we graduated Justin Williams, Adam Mitola, and Arnaldo Toro from the class of 2016.

I agree with Barry's view though, as crappy as that sounds.  In the past we could watch a group of 5-6 grow from freshman year through senior year.  Looking at teams at the top of the A-10, we should now hope a core of 2-3 make it all four years.  Hopefully JC has one of those in the cards.

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BGF, I suspect that most here did not shed many tears when most players transferred away over the past two years.  The possible exceptions are:

Terry Nolan Jr....Did not ever give JC a chance.

Justin M. and Maceo...I think these were more troublesome for when the transfers took place, and in Maceo's case, that it happened in the middle of his senior season

Jameer Jr...You can argue whether JNJ would ever have become a polished point guard under JC's tutelage or not.  The fact is that James's arrival caused JNJ to become disposable.

Chase...Deserves not to be lumped together with some of the lower level ones, but I think most are OK with this.

Jamison...This one is the pill that's hard to swallow.  Since this could not have been over playing time, this really could have been beyond JC's control.  He also could have been very upset over the way that his friend JNJ's situation was handled.  The fact is we'll never know how big a factor if any this was as it's not very likely he would ever discuss this.

These guys were all starters at some point for GW and that differentiates these players from other MoJo recruits.  To be fair about this, we'd need to compare this to the numbers of starters who transfer away from other A10 programs over these past few years.  I could be wrong but I don't recall a ton of guys transferring away from our better programs.  This is important because despite the admittedly more common nature of players transferring, the A10 has always been a conference where players are sold into developing over 4 years.  It's by no means a one-and-done conference and a talent like Obi Toppin is clearly the exception and not the rule.  The result is that the better teams tend to stay together and play together more games than many BCS schools. I believe this roster continuity is what GW needs to strive for.  Turning over an entire roster in less than two full years does not at all sound like the norm for the sport.

What matters most Barry, is WHO is transferring.

Battle is a big loss since he will invariably transfer UP. Chase, will go down, like most GW transfers, Goss, Cimino, Darian Bryant, Nick Griffin etc.   

Battle is in the Kethan Savage, Lasan Kromah category, this one clearly hurts, but that's the risk you take when you keep changing Head Coaches. 

 It was mentioned elsewhere "ML left" there's a big difference between "leaving" (Hurley left Rhode Island for UCONN, Jarvis left GW for St. Johns, Shaka left VCU for Texas) and being fired for abuse.  the latter is a lot harder to recover from, and we're still feeling the wake of that in some ways.  Battle was after all Mojo's recruit, Mojo an assistant of ML promoted after the HC was fired weeks before the season was to begin.  What we need is continuity and JC needs to prove he's the man who will provide it.  big offseason for him, a few chances here to upgrade the team


 

Last edited by The Dude (3/08/2021 4:38 pm)

GWRising, I think what you're not understanding is that despite the fact that there are more transfers today than ever before, it is very rare to say the least to turn over an entire roster in two years.

Here's one way to look at this...we had a total of 16 players on our roster this season.  Maceo, JNJ, Ace, Chase and Jamison all either transferred, are transferring, or left the team before season's end.  Of the remaining 11, Moyer and Leftwich are grad students who could come back, Sloan has been rumored to transfer and Amir's situation is entirely health-related.  So, let's say that Maceo, JNJ, Chase and Jamison make 4 transfers and we'll see about Sloan and anyone else.  Then let's exclude graduating seniors/grad students at other A10 schools and see how many players transfer out of their programs before next season, and evaluate whether these losses are as impactful as Battle/Nelson/Paar/Jack.

But again, I am more concerned with coaching the players who are here than anything else.   

Now everyone is mocking our program on Twitter.
Jameer Nelson, ML, coaching changes.
GW has some work to do the next 7 months. I really don't care about statements promising to do better, etc. Nobody wants to have another year like the last 2. JC, go out and get some players (and some quality assistants).

Joel Joseph wrote:

Now everyone is mocking our program on Twitter.
Jameer Nelson, ML, coaching changes.
GW has some work to do the next 7 months. I really don't care about statements promising to do better, etc. Nobody wants to have another year like the last 2. JC, go out and get some players (and some quality assistants).

Jameer Nelson is not mocking our program ... you took 2+2 and got 9.
ML is no longer the coach and is justifiably bitter about what happened to him ... so doubt he will have anything good to say.
Coaching Changes are a bunch of clowns with a Twitter account. No one takes them seriously except themselves. You forget they were the ones who exaggerated the whole ML story.

You really that insecure to worry about what is said on the cesspool of Twitter.

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