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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 3205939, member: 6520"]
I agree with you - and in addition to the 1-and-done / 2-and-done players making it more difficult to develop players and build a roster, the changes around players transferring have also had a significant impact on college basketball.

If I go all the way back to when I fell in love with SU Hoops as a kid, there are a ton of players that were not ready to contribute (nor expected to contribute) in their first 2 years that blossomed into great players for us.  Starting with Sherman (averaged just 11 mpg as a frosh) and Stevie (12 mpg as a freshman - plus, he can't shoot!), and moving on to Dave Johnson (even as a sophomore, he only averaged 18 mpg and 6 ppg).  Conrad McRae barely contributed as a freshman and wasn't much better as a sophomore.  Same goes for Lucious Jackson.  Lazarus Sims didn't contribute in a meaningful way until his senior year.  Griff and Damone Brown are 2 more guys that didn't give us much their freshman years before turning into solid players as upperclassmen/seniors.

How many of those guys would stick around in 2019 and ride the bench for a couple of years before developing into quality players?  When it's so easy to transfer out and immediately play somewhere else, why not just do that?

And how many of us, as fans, have the patience to allow kids to develop these days?  Or the patience to allow the staff to develop them?
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