These transfers really hurt

Almost every day these days you see on the major websites news of big time players transferring or deciding not to come back to school, and speculate on how big a hit the program will take because of it. Losing James White and James Reid for next season has not caused a blip on the national radar, but given the fact that Reid had, in only one year, proved himself to be a reliable shooter and that James White was our most talented big man in several years, and with Josh Hagins coming to the senior year of one of the most productive careers in program history, and coming at a critical juncture with a new coach probably not being able to get the talent in that he needs to go with Josh - all that adds up to a hammer blow at our little program. What it probably means is that any likelihood that the new coach could have taken a core of very nice returning talent, plugged a few holes, and maybe made some noise in his first year has probably disappeared. I say "probably" because who knows what could happen with the energy a new coach bring. But, as I say, the likelihood of that happening in his first year has diminished considerably. Sad.