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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 3328702, member: 297"]
I've been thinking about this post. The idea that Goodine "took the easy way out" and "quit" bothers me. That's loaded language.

There is the possibility that he saw that for the next two years that there is nothing Buddy could do short of losing his eligibility that would take him off the floor. That Miami game? Good chance that represents a fairly common "substitution pattern" for Buddy going forward. It's also possible that he realized Girard is now in the circle of trust. He played 33 mpg as a true freshman. Odds are, those minutes aren't going down, and if they do, not by much.

This judgment that Goodine didn't want to work, I don't buy it. It's not fair to put that on the player. It's far more likely that he read the tea leaves, and saw that his career here was going to be as the "in case of emergency break glass" guard, regardless of what he did.

I'm depressed and pissed about this, because I think he made the right call. He has bigger goals than that, and the chance he would achieve those goals here is a really low. Other guys that didn't "quit" and "put in the work" had a path. Assuming that's true, it's an issue in our program that guys on the roster can't see a viable path for them to play.
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