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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3734257, member: 27"] I don't know if either player will come back. I know Bourama is a very smart young man and it might be enticing for him to have another year to pursue a graduate degree. In addition, he probably would like a do over of his senior year. This is surely not how he dreamed his career would end. He worked very hard to transform his body and had 5 minutes to take advantage of that hard work. Returning for a solid senior season would position him much better to land a nice contract to play somewhere overseas, which might be an immediate goal of his. If Marek comes back, that would be 4 years in a row he defied many on this board and proved them wrong again. Causing a grand slam of bad calls by many in the fan base might be enough to get him to come back. I joke but he made some nice improvements to his body last summer and another summer of building his body up will only help him to get a better contract to play overseas as well. And it would not be a bad thing to start work on a grad program in some area for him either. He appears to be enjoying his time at Syracuse and JB always is very encouraging to him in his public (and presumably private) statements. In the event one or both of these guys leave, it looks likely there will be no incoming HS recruit big guy to take their place. Our returning bigs do not look like they are locks to be solid ACC level players next season so I expect we will go hard after big guy transfers (like we have been doing the last couple of years). There will probably be more of them than there normally are and if we lose both of these guys, the abundant available playing time has to be attractive to someone looking to transfer. If both leave, I would be very surprised if we do not get at least one transfer. Probably a grad transfer, maybe a JUCO eligible immediately. Or even a 'normal' transfer the NCAA makes immediately eligible. Can't imagine they aren't going to make all transfers eligible immediately at some point between now and the summer. [/QUOTE]

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